You can style them with CSS to improve the default appearance. However, make sure you don’t get carried away and use tables for layout—for accessibility reasons, keep them strictly for data.

Make sure you validate your HTML and CSS, using a service like the W3C’s validator. This will warn you about obsolete tags and other errors that may make your HTML less robust.

In this table-themed HTML tutorial, I’ll explain how to make a basic table, add and remove borders, create layouts, make cells the shape and size you want, place cell contents, and add color. It ...

Instead, create different sections for your website – for example, “About me”, “Projects” and “Photos”. Use headers to create titles for each section. Then, add text to tell your story.