ohhhh ok.. well ya your probably only getting like 128Kbps then or something like that to that host.. thats probably why.. but i agree more tables do slow the site down.
I wrote a little something a while ago which has a bit about how lots of nested tables are BAD! http://www.michaelthorn.co.uk/021106.php
Yeah ok Ive learnt how to use CSS more effectively (with floating and image displaying and CSS positioning) so ill probably use that technique now, thanks for the repsonses .
There are a few of issues with this: Downloading Tables add to the file size, which makes the files take longer to download. The speed of this depends on the connection. Rendering Your browser has to interpret all of the tables to display the page; more tables = more work for the browser. Often, complete tables have to be downloaded before anything is displayed, so the previous issue can combine with this one. Once the site is downloaded, the rendering depends on the speed of the computer (RAM and CPU mostly). Aesthetics and Standards Anyone who follows webpage standards will tell you that tables are for tabular data not for layout. CSS is for layout. If you don't yet know CSS, you should find a css tutorial.