Here is what the table code looks like:
<table width="200" height="200" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="4">cell 1</td>
<td rowspan="2">cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell 3</td>
<td rowspan="2">cell 4</td>
<td>cell 5</td>
<td>cell 6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell 7</td>
<td colspan="3">cell 8</td>
</tr>
</table>
and here is the table:
| cell 1 - spans 4 columns | cell 2 - spans 2 rows |
| cell 3 | cell 4 - spans 2 rows | cell 5 | cell 6 |
| cell 7 | cell 8 - spans 3 columns |