alright, im working on a new layout, and what i want to do is put a big graphic on top, and have my blog down the left side and a side bar menu thing where i can put my tag-board, menu, currently etc... but i dont know how to set up the HTML? here's an example: http://forever-amber.net/framedex.htm i dont really know if thats a good example, but hopefully it will. so if you can help, thanks!

uhm, because the page is named "framedex.html" doesn't mean it is made with frames ;)

The page you linked it made with a simple table:

<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="#" height="#">
<tr><td valign="top" colspan="2">head image here</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="#">content here sidebar stuff</td>
<td valign="top" width="#">blog here</td></tr></table>

make sure the widths from the <td> parts are together the same as the width from the <table> part. So <td width> + <td width> = <table width> ;)

Love,
mirna