If you take a look at the puzzles, you can see that tables can be used to create quite complicated patterns on an HTML page. However, most times you would not want to use something this intricate. Suppose Louella wanted to add the scores from the family outing to the bowling alley to her newsletter. A table would serve quite nicely to arrange their scores, one row per person with a cell for the name and a cell for each game score. A top row for the column headings would be nice, using the <th> tag instead of the <td> tag for the cells to automatically use bold text.

Name	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4
Willa	102	119	131	95
Roy	152	149	159	171
Ruthann	141	133	156	143
Will	189	182	159	171

However, adding these rows to the newsletter page as new lines in the same table would mean some fiddling with the two column tags. The solution is to create a new row beneath the last row of the newsletter with a big cell stretching across the newsletter columns. You would create it the same way you made the cell across the top of the columns for the newsletter heading. Then you put this whole table into the new cell on the bottom of the newsletter. This is called a nested table.

Louella's Tattle and Tips
Ruthann gets arrested! Ruthann got into big trouble this year! She was building up her usual head of Christmas cheer right on schedule for the feast, when her cheap husband Sam decided to save a few pennies by buying presents from unorthodox sources. Ruthann started making her fancy fruitcakes for Christmas presents and soaking them in extra rum as usual. The smell soon brought their cat Fluffy to investigate. What happened next isn't clear. Sam claims that the cat knocked a cake off the counter next to the floor heater. Ruthann suspects it was Sam getting an early start on his cake. Whoever was responsible for it, the flaming fruitcake set off the kitchen fire alarm and brought the neighbors and the volunteer fire department on the run. The police naturally showed up to investigate the commotion. When a neighbor opened the broom closet to help clean up the mess, a police officer saw (continued on page 2)	Crafting Tip Got a lot of green tomatoes snatched off the vine before frost hit? Cover them with a festive assortment of left-over house paint and heap them high in a pretty bowl like Christmas ornaments. Eat your heart out, Martha!
	Quote of the Feast The biggest turkeys do their gobbling on Christmas. Said by Grandma Willa to Uncle Roy after he spilled giblet gravy on her best crocheted tablecloth. He's rightly ashamed of himself.
	Most Original Christmas Present Little Will's giant windchimes, made from recycled CD's which proved to have some naughty pictures on them. His mother is discreetly investigating the source of his creativity.
Bowling Scores Name Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Willa 102 119 131 95 Roy 152 149 159 171 Ruthann 141 133 156 143 Will 189 182 159 171

<tr>
<td colspan=2 bgcolor="white">
<P>
<center><h5>Bowling Scores</h5></center>
<P>
<table width=100% cellpadding=5 border=1 align="center">
<tr align="center">
<th width=200 align="left">Name</th>
<th>Game 1</th>
<th>Game 2</th>
<th>Game 3</th>
<th>Game 4</th>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td align="left">Willa</td>
<td>102</td>
<td>119</td>
<td>131</td>
<td>95</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td align="left">Roy</td>
<td>152</td>
<td>149</td>
<td>159</td>
<td>171</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td align="left">Ruthann</td>
<td>141</td>
<td>133</td>
<td>156</td>
<td>143</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td align="left">Will</td>
<td>189</td>
<td>182</td>
<td>159</td>
<td>171</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

You can add whatever text you like in the cell with the table. Retrieve your newsletter.html file and add this row to it, then save it and display it with your browser. Experiment with different background graphics and colors in various parts of the table and its nested table to see the effect.

Tip: A nested table is an easy way to neatly display several links to other pages of your site or to different locations on a long page. You can make a table of contents or an index this way, or put a horizontal group of links at the bottom of your page evenly spaced along the width of the page.

We've seen a lot of nice tricks to spruce up a page. Let's go on to the puzzles now, starting with Little Quilt.