As a complete beginner constructing a simple website, I tried several different approaches but found that using tables in Netscape Composer was the easiest for me.

Afterwards the code was studied to find out more about constructing a simple layout for  a web page.

Do it now  quickly now
More haste, less speed
This table has unequal colums
This is a nested table  with equal width colums
unequal
colums
i

Time  Equal width box was ticked
now If equal width is not ticked then I can get unequal columns
e this is the way to make one cell span 3 columns h
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 2 3 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

a fixed width of cells but this cell span 3 cols b
c d e f g

 
THIS CELL SPANS 2 ROWS A B
C D
E F G