Formatting Tables with CSS

[eluser]maniac[/eluser]
I must admit I'm totally new at all this. This is how I was taught to do the tables -

<table width="57%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tr>
<th>Employee ID</th>
<th>Employee First Name</th>
<th>Employee Last Name</th>
<th>Department</th>
</tr>
&lt;?php foreach($result as $row): ?&gt;
<tr>
<td>&lt;?=$row->empid?&gt;</td>
<td >&lt;?=$row->empfirstname?&gt;</td>
<td >&lt;?=$row->emplastname?&gt;</td>
<td >&lt;?=$row->deptid?&gt;</td>
</tr>
&lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
</table>