Left Column - 25%

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Content Area - 50%

This is where your main body of text would likely go. Watch readability decrease as the line length increases!

If you want to see how the code for this page is working, just do "View Source" - all the CSS is in the head of the page rather than in an external stylesheet so it's easy to copy and paste.

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Right Column - 24%

(to avoid problems with IE where the right column drops below the other content if everything adds up to 100%)

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