making a footer... a little help please

Hey everyone I want to make a footer for my sites and want the basic layout to be on allof them... linking to my other sites, common tos, etc. So what Im looking for is 2 or three column footer. I have cut my teeth in html and css only for like 2 months so Im not extremely adept at it yet.

So question do I need to make tables in the html such as
<div align="center">
<div style="width:800px;background: #******;color: #******;">
(Here is where I am confused.. I want to put 2-3 columns here but do not know how...)
</div>
</div>

thanks I hope you know what im talking about

 

HTML:

<div id="footer">
<div class="footer_column">
</div>

<div class="footer_column">
</div>

<div class="footer_column">
</div>
</div>

CSS:

#footer{
text-align: center;
clear: both;
width: 100%;
OR
width:800px;
}

#footer_column{
width: 33%;
OR
width: 266px;
float: left;
}

 

Yeah, that's one way to do it. The only thing to watch out for with the 33% is sometimes in IE, 33% + 33% + 33% does not =100% but something more... or if you want to add any padding or anything, it's a bit safer to use somehting like 32% or something. : )

 

Thanks alot I will try this

 

The way to do this that HTML is designed to allow is:

HTML:

<div align="center" width="100%">
<table>
<tr>
<td width="33%">
First Column of data
</td>
<td width="33%">
Second Column of data
</td>
<td width="33%">
Third Column of data
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>


No CSS needed!

PM me if you need more ideas...

 

Thanks everyone I believe I have it... rep for you1