<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
<title>Table Demo (spanning columns)</title>
</head>

<BODY marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" >

<table width="100%" height="800" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

    <tr height="40" bgcolor="silver">
        <td colspan="2" align="center"><font size="+2">Welcome to my site</font></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="200" height="550" bgcolor="cyan" align="center" valign="top">
            <br />
            <br />
            <p><a href="page1.html">some menu option</a></p>
            <p><a href="page2.html">another menu option</a></p>
        </td>

        <td bgcolor="lightyellow" align="center" valign="top" >
            <br />
            <h2>some descriptive text</h2> 
        </td>
    </tr>
    
</table>