First, I created a container div that would hold everything in my layout. My CSS container rule was
#container
{
width: 800px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 0 0 150px;
}
Next, within the HTML container div, I inserted a div for the content column and a div for the navigation column
content
Within the CSS rules, my content column was
#content
{ width: 65%;
float: left;
}
whereas my navigation column was
#navigation
{
width: 30%;
margin-left: 70%;
}
This makes my file look like this