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TechieGuy has given you a good, precise answer, but since you referenced my post in the quote I will respond, too. I can see how references to columns could be confusing since tables have rows and columns while layout talks about columns as well.
Perhaps an example of what TechieGuy describes would help. If you look on the main page of this forum you will notice that the main part of the page can be seen as having two parts. On the right side you see RSS feed button, the WB Sponsors and below that some ads. That is the right "column" of the web page layout which could be done with css. Then the main part of the forum listings would be the main "column" in this case (it could be called content column or whatever).
Now the list of forums itself is a table. Actually it appears to be more than one table, one after the other, with additional content below that. All of these are in the main layout column.
As a table, the list of forums has rows across (forum, last post, etc.) and "columns" going up and down. So there you have columns in a table, not to be confused with layout columns.
I've tried to be really detailed to make it simple, distinguishing the two types of columns enough to understand when you are starting from scratch. To keep it simple you may want to just ignore this last point so it doesn't add to the confusion. But IF you do layout with tables, which I don't recommend, although those who already do so are quite skilled at it and do it for a variety of understandable reasons, you can have "columns" that are both table columns and layout columns at the same time.
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