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&lt;!DOCTYPE html>

&lt;html>
&lt;head>
&lt;title>Table Demo (using table for layout)&lt;/title>
&lt;/head>

&lt;body>

&lt;table height="1000">

    &lt;tr>
        &lt;td width="200" bgcolor="cyan" align="center" valign="top">
            &lt;br />
            &lt;br />
            &lt;p>some menu option&lt;/p>
            &lt;p>another menu option&lt;/p>
       &lt;/td>

       &lt;td width="800" bgcolor="lightyellow" align="center" valign="top" >
           &lt;br />
           &lt;h2>some descriptive text&lt;/h2> 
       &lt;/td>
    &lt;/tr>
&lt;/table>
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