Html, Css, Tables... 3 column, header, and possibly footer

Which one should I use to design my site with? Or mostly use anyway. Which is better for making it 3 column, header and maybe footer? Where can I find a ready made code?

Well, you'll definitely need HTML

For the layout, I'd use CSS, and not tables. Not only will you get cleaner, easily readable markup, you will probably also need less markup using CSS, which means less bandwidth used.

If you want a nice tutorial that explains all steps (and has a summary at the end if you just want the code needed) you should go here. Scroll down to the bottom, it's "Tutorial 9. Liquid three column layout" you'll want to check out.

Good luck.

the problem with CSS is that positioning doesn't always show the same way across browsers. In tables, it is a lot more consistent.And, I don't want to get into the arguement of "compliant" browsers. Cause, there are differences between all "compliant" browsers. not all of them support the same CSS functions in the same way.If you are only going to use BASIC CSS functions then, it should display properly across all browsers.Edit: Personally though, I only care about IE, Firefox, and Mozilla. All others represent less than 3% (on my site). If, they don't see it properly. I don't care.Approx.IE 89%Firefox 6%Moz 2%Others 3%

It's true that CSS and different browsers can be tricky, however (as you no9t9 pointed out) basic CSS will work okay most of the time. The site I linked to does give a three column layout with a header and a footer, which looks the same in both IE and Mozilla browsers (haven't tested in Opera myself, but it should look good), it makes a few hacks to make it look the same in IE as in Mozilla.

If you want to see more advanced things being done with CSS that look good whether you are using IE or Firefox you should check out CSS Zen Garden.

Ok, thank you all

Go to http://sourceforge.net/ and search "IE7".

What is IE7? I contains CSS and JavaScripts to correct the render error in Internet Explorer. It will become a w3c certified browser!

Ok I found a ready make css template I downloaded it uploaded it to my (I'm transfering my site to Xisto) site folder. And it's all ready (I hope it looks good I made a few changes) and now it's there what do I do with it? It's three column with a header, but how do I make it show on a page and how do I add stuff to the different columns??

So... You have a HTML document and the CSS all ready? Have you put it in your public_html directory here on Xisto? In that case you should be able to see it by going to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

You can add stuff to the columns by typing things in the right places in the HTML document...

Oh. I didn't know it was supposed to go in the public_html directory. My bad. I wasn't paying attention.=DWhere is the right place in the HTML document?Ok, I did that. But if the site is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ shouldn't it go automatically to the index.html page? Instead of http://forums.xisto.com/?

if you put your index.html file in the public_html directory it will automatically be found. I forget the order but it will automatically look for index.html, index.htm, and index.php. If none of these are found, it will display 404.

=) It works. Thank you. But ahh I still can't figure out how to get the css template to work. I tried to look it up on some tutorial sites but they don't really help.