is this sloppy code?

greg posted this at 22:20 — 1st April 2007.

Joined: Nov 2005

i have a css styled virtical navigation menu and want to be able to put it on the left of the page, have a border and align the links and headers, etc, make it look nice basically

i am trying to put a into a table, without much success
the only way i can get the style to remain is by doing the following code
it works, but it looks sloppy to me, like having to end all tr, td, ul and cal them again and my 'wireframemenu' class again

can someone let me know if i'm even on the right track for doing this?

<table border="5" width="200px" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<h3>FIRST HEADER</h3>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<div class="wireframemenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="forumwithhost.php">Forum With Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="forumwithouthost.php">Forum Without Hosting</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<h3>SECOND HEADER</h3>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
<div class="wireframemenu">
<ul>
<li><a href="trackerwithhost.php">Tracker With Hosting</a></li>
<li><a href="trackerwithouthost.php">Tracker Without Hosting</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

also, using the above code in a table, how do i get my text next to the list?

and i have a top header with my company logo, image and then a horizontal navigation menu all in another table
is this standard practice? and how do i centralise the horozontal menu in a table cell> right and left work but middle or centre dont?
I seem to have picked up all the code, css, html etc but am now having trouble making all look nice on the page with tables

many thanks