HTML Table formatting issue

[needsmet]

Im a begenner to html and web design, so this is probably something pretty simple. Im trying to use tables so I can display more than 1 column of text and images. When I enter the text in my columns, its not showing up properly.

For example, column 1 has 4 lines of text and column 2 has 5 lines of text. They are not formatting properly so that the headers in both columns are eagually spaced.

What am I missing?

<table border="10">
<tr>
<td align="left"><p class="style1">Customer Relations Managment</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="style2">Follow up calls to your clients</li>
<li class="style2">Customer satisfaction surveys</li>
<li class="style2">Mystery shopping</li>
<li class="style2">Maintaining service records</li>
</ul> <p class="style1">&nbsp; </p></td>
<td align="left"><p class="style1">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="style1"><strong>Sales and Marketing</strong></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="style2">Lead Generation</li>
<li class="style2">Telemarketing</li>
<li class="style2">Direct mail/ E-mail follow up</li>
<li class="style2">Visitor invites-trade shows, events</li>
<li class="style2">Marketing List generation</li>
<li class="style2">Email Marketing</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p></td>
</tr>
</table>

[tedster]

Hello needsmet, and welcome to the forums.

How about a vertical align rule? Two ways to go at it: for the table cell?

<td style="vertical-align:top;">

...or add the rule to your css file for the td