Before Table Technique is applied .
Page Header

Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Product 4
Product 5

 

 

Body Content
Page Footer


Page Source Code
You will notice that the nav bar is placed before the "body content"
and the body content is near the bottom, next to the footer.  
This is a "normal" table page architecture.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Table based page without "Table Technique" implementation</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Before Table Technique is applied .</strong></font>

<table width="100%" >

<!-- This is my masthead -->
<tr align="center" valign="top">
<td colspan="2">


<!-- Start Header -->
<table width="100%" border="1" align="center" >
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Page Header</font></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end header -->

</td>
</tr>
<!-- end masthead -->

<tr>

<!-- start Nav Bar -->
<td align="left" valign="top">

<!-- Start Left Nav -->
<!-- DEPENDING ON WHICH PAGE YOU'RE LOOKING AT, YOU SHOULD NOTICE THE LOCATION
OF THE NAV. IS IT NEAR THE TOP OF THE CODE OR NEAR THE BOTTOM? -->

<table width="100%" height="100%" border="1" align="left" >
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p align="left">
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Product 1<br>
Product 2<br>
Product 3<br>
Product 4<br>
Product 5</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end left nav -->
</td>
<!-- end Nav Bar -->

<!-- Start Body Content -->
<td width="100%" height="100%" align="left" valign="top">

<!-- start of body -->
<!-- DEPENDING ON WHICH PAGE YOU'RE LOOKING AT, YOU SHOULD NOTICE THE LOCATION
OF THE BODY. IS IT NEAR THE TOP OF THE CODE OR NEAR THE BOTTOM? -->

<table width="100%" height="100%" border="1" align="left" >
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Body Content</strong></font></p>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end body content -->

</td>
<!-- end body content -->

</tr>
</table>
<!-- Start Footer -->
<table width="100%" border="1" align="center" >
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Page Footer</font></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end footer -->
</body>
</html>