sounds daunting to the novice webmaster, who often assumes that the HyperText Markup Language, with all its confusing tags and elements, is going to be difficult to understand. But after a few good website tutorials, the novice learns that learning HTML can be easy and fun; the language is not far removed from archaic typesetting syntax, and once you learn the basics, it's smooth sailing from then on. ...or is it? Tables are a big stumbling block for some, and as simple as they are, some .