One of my client requirements was to display data on the dash board with a bunch of XP styled tables. I am posting the code so that developers with similar requirements can re-use what I have done.
<table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="5" background="images/top-left.jpg" width="5" height="29"></td>
<td height="29" background="images/top-mid.jpg"><div style="color:#FFFFFF">My Title</div></td>
<td width="5" background="images/top-right.jpg" height="29"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="5" background="images/left-mid.jpg"></td>
<td bgcolor="#F7F8FB">
<div>Content Heading</div>
<div>Content - 1</div>
<div>Content - 2</div>
</td>
<td width="5" background="images/right-mid.jpg"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="5" height="5" background="images/bottom-left.jpg"></td>
<td height="5" background="images/bottom-mid.jpg"></td>
<td width="5" height="5" background="images/bottom-right.jpg"></td>
</tr>
</table>
The images used in this example are provided below,








Save the images in a directory named - "images" or modify the image path in HTML code. The final table would look like,
| My Title | |
|
Content Heading Content - 1 Content - 2 | |
| | |