Cmarsh,
You may want to click on profile and change your forum name to something other than your email address.
Using a table is one way, and I have used that, but what I am doing now is just use links.
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com">home</a> | <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/about.html">About Us</a>
You can insert a line break to start a second or third line as needed.
Use CSS to adjust the text size. You can do that many ways with an external CSS file, a style section for the CSS styles in the <head> of your page, or use inline styles. The easiest way is to use an external style sheet, so that you can make a single change to change your entire site.
To do this, use something like this:
.footer {
text-size:x-small;
color:#FF0000;
text-align:center;
}
Then set your footer information inside a div or span so the div would look like this:
<div class="footer">
<a href="http://www.yoursite.com">home</a> | <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/about.html">About Us</a>
</div>
The styles set text size to x-small, text color to red and alignes the text to the center.
If you want, you can even create a footer that is saved with just the links, and use a single line of code to place the footer in each page you create.
Hope this helps.