One common method for creating a page layout is to use HTML tables to position elements. Tables can be difficult to use for layout, however, because they were originally created for displaying tabular data, not for laying out web pages. To streamline the process of using tables for page layout, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 provides Layout mode.
In Layout mode, you can design your page using tables as the underlying structure, while avoiding some of the problems that often occur when creating table-based designs using traditional means.
