Tables are a great way to organize things.
This is more of a web 1.0 technique for full page layout, but it is still useful to know how to write and use them.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/tables/
Here is a bit of sample code for tables - http://dhswebdesign.pbwiki.com/f/tables.html
W3 schools is good and has a tester page for most tags http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
This page lists a whole lot of sample code and shows examples of how it will look. http://www.pageresource.com/html/table1.htm
Lots of sample code and shows examples. http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/tables.php