Create a successful merchandise table by cultivating your eye for presentation. Look at your table as if you were a customer. If you walked past a vendor's table and saw only a few products, ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

The Apache Velocity template engine simplifies creation of textual content by merging data contained in a Java object model with Velocity templates. But creating complex HTML tables with cells that ...