Take the borders off your tables- I think that may be what he's going for. That's what cellpadding is generally used for. Whan you have no borders on your tables, and there's no cellpadding, the text can bump right up next to the text in the next cell, but if you put cellpadding there, it will make a space between the 2 cells.

I left the borders on because that was part of the assignment, but I set the cell padding to 20px which worked nicely. The next question asked us to remove the border, which I think looks so much better. So now I'm done that. Just have an essay worth 40% of my mark now haha

anyone good at java? i understand all the logic but am having a hard time knowing where to start on my project.