This third example has three columns.
A centre column which is placed statically and given a margin either side to allow the two menus to be placed.
The menus are given absolute positioning to make them sit in the margins.
To see what your computer screen would look when using the first example of static postioning open this window
Here is the CSS code and the XHTML used to produce the layout above.
Notice that each of the boxes and the text still take a new line.