Quick html (visual studio) question

[Darg]

I'm designing a website for a college project and no matter what size settings I give the individual table cells it always stretches when I open it in the browser.

This is what I want:

But when I resize the IE window it compresses down to this:

When I put IE to fullscreen it stretches out a bit too which throws off some text.

Anyone know a setting I can change? My lecturer is useless and just muttered something about style settings then wandered off.

 

[Darg]

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Blame my lecturer. Most of his notes are from 1999. I even found that some of his "2004" notes are identical to old copies from 1999 that I found.

He never said we have to use tables so I guess I could use CSS. Any good links to tutorials for making a CSS layout like I have above?

 

[Darg]

Okay thanks guys. I'll look into using CSS. This site:

http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/css-3col-layout/

still squeezes the middle column but I assume there's an easy way to stop that with CSS.

 

[Darg]

Yea all the sections have absolute widths and heights. I'll just have to deal with it for now unless I get it switched over to CSS.