help with tables?

i need to create something like this? any help would be very greatly appreciated!!

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4224/screenshot20111024at225.png

Are you required to use tables? What I mean is, tables for layouts are bad (http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/).

If this is a homework assignment, you should post the code that you've tried yourself.