People add banners to their sites for a number of reasons.  It can be a good way to promote a friends page, it can simply be a way to brighten up your page, or even a way to earn you more leads.  If you decide to add a banner to your site, you first need to choose what image you want to use.  The coding for a banner will look something like this:
<a href="http://www.website.com/refer.phtml?username=memigen"><img src="http://images.website.com/creatives/paradise_468x60.gif"></a>
It is much the same as making an image a link.  The only difference is that the link leads to another website.
Tables are a great way to divide a page and organize how your page looks.  A table is basically a grid made up of columns and rows.  Each little box is called a cell.  Your text, pictures, or whatever you'd like to post goes inside the cells.

Rows go horizontal and columns go vertical.

To create a table, you need to start and end it.  To start a table, you have to type <table>, and to end the table, type </table>.  What goes between the start and end tags depends on what type of table you want.  Every table has at least one row.  A table row is one horizontal row made up of x number of table data cells.  It is completely up to you what you put into each cell.  You can enter text, images, link...anything you'd like.  If you want to create a table with two columns and one row, you need to type:

<table>
<tr> - start table row
<td> - start table data cell
type your text or image here
</td>
<td> - start the second table data cell
type your text or image here
</td>
</tr>
</table>

It will now look like this:
This is the first data cell........and this is the second. Woo Hoo, I have created my first table!
You can have any number of table rows and data cells, as long as you remember to end each tag.  The main thing to remember is to start with a <tr>.  Adding extra <tr>'s will add extra rows, and adding extra <td>'s will create an extra cell.  If you want to add an extra cell or row, make sure you end one before starting a new one.
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