Like what you see? Up for the challenge? Then let's get started on building your basic table. I will do this in individual steps to try to make it easier for you to understand.
I would also advise using a siterubix test site to do this until you feel confident enough to place it in your published site
Step 1:
First you need a basic table structure. To do this you will need to copy and paste the following data into your text editor wherever you want your table to be positioned.
This is the data I used purely as an example, you can increase the columns by adding extra <td></td> tags to each of the sections, and increase the number of rows by adding <tr></tr> and the <td></td> in between them.
<table class="aligncenter" style="width: 560px;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<table style="border: 1px solid #000000;">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Now Click on Preview to make sure it's were you want it on your site and you should see this:
Once you're happy with Step 1 save it as a Draft and continue to Step 2.
Tables baffle a lot of people - I've seen a lot of questions here about them - and without a plugin, going into HTML for some people can be very daunting.You've clearly explained tables in a very easy way to understand.
If I could add one thing, where you have "width: 123px;" - that can be changed to a percentage - so your table becomes a little bit responsive. eg. "width: 40%;" - then the table will adapt as much as possible to the size of screen it's being viewed on.
All the best, Mark