Page Layout

[conflicted]

Hi,

I'm learning HTML using this tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

So far I have sucessfully written some text in NotePad using some of the basic tags. However, before I spend hours creating my site, I want to make sure I can set up the page layout the way I would like it to look.

I want a layout similar to the tutorial site above with numerous links in a column to the left, leaving me with the rest of the page to type paragraphs, tables, etc.

I began writing some paragraphs which showed up correctly to the right. I then added links in a column to the left. The problem I ran into is that the initial paragraphs I wrote now show up lower than the links to the left instead of directly across from the links.

How can I make the text to the right of the "links" column show up directly across from the links instead of being lower than the last link? Is there some type of page layout coding I missed in the tutorial? Do I need to type in a specific order (i.e. the left column first, followed by the paragraphs, tables, etc.)?

Thanks in advance,

-conflicted

[NogDog]

I'd like to recommend the www.htmldog.com tutorials (not associated in any way with NogDog ;) ) over the w3schools, as I think the former does a better job of incorporating the learning of CSS for styling in conjunction with [X]HTML for mark-up. You'll probably learn fewer bad habits (such as using tables for page layout) that way.

For some examples of basic layouts using CSS, see http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

For examples of non-basic layouts that show the power of CSS, see www.csszengarden.com .