Problem with tableless design

Howdy all!

I've done it... I'm trying to implement tableless design on my site. I've searched for some tuto's, and they made it possible to make some "tables"... But now I have a problem... well, 2 actually... I will come to that later. First the problem about the layout.
I have a menu on the left and a logo on top. It's working as it should be, but now I want to create a <div> on the right of the menu. Everything I try is useless. It's all getting below my menu.
For an example to show how it looks now:
http://spongy.kicks-ass.org/xhtml/

I have another thing too... I ran my code though the w3c-validator, and it looks like I cannot use target="..." anymore...
Does anyone has a solution on that? It's really annoying, because I want to open some external links in a new window.

Hope to hear something soon...
Cheers,

Hey spongy - congrats on making the jump.
Yes - the lack of the "target" attribute annoys everyone' initially. A few ideas are:
* Use it anyway - you'll just get the error when validating, but who cares.
* If you're using XHTML, you can utilise it's modularisation: http://www.texastar.com/tips/2004/target_blank.shtml
* Use the onclick event. e.g. <a href="foo.htm" onclick="window.open('','popWindow','features here')">

Regarding your column layout problem - check out this site: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

Thnx for the quick reply!
The problems are solved! I now use the js-way for opening a new window, but it looks ugly. So eventually I will change that.
But for now, thanks a lot
I will have some problems later... =)