Can the content be better presented another way?

Consider alternative ways of presenting the same content. For example, you may have a table of names addresses and phone numbers. It's laid out with one row per person. This information would be better presented on a small screen in one column of regular text (with a <BR> tag at the end of each line) in which name, address, and phone number are stacked for each person, looking more like a mailing label.

Would a simulated table work just as well for the content?

If the content looks best in tabular form, would it work just as well to render it with a fixed width font, with columns of data aligned by filling the space in between with the appropriate number of spaces? The <PRE> tag does this quite nicely, as long as you provide the right number of spaces to maintain column alignment.

If you do use a table, try to: