Hi i'm new to wordpress, i'm so close to choosing another blog, I'm trying to edit the template, or just make the post out to be lik classes, umm lik tables with a header, the content in the middle (diff colour then the header) and yeah and the footer where the comment section is, and all:

This is the code I have:

<?php require("/home/USER/public_html/Wordpress/wp-blog-header.php"); ?>

<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="style-2.css" media=screen>

<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

<div class="side-header2"> <?php the_title(); ?> - <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"<>?php the_date('d-m-y','','',true); ?></a></div>
<div class="sp"> </div>

<div class="side-content">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="90%" style="text-align:justify" valign="top">
<div align="justify">

<?php the_content(); ?>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

</div>
<div class="sp"> </div>
<div class="side-header" align="right"><?php the_category(','); ?> - <?php comments_popup_link(__('0 Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?></a></div>

</div>
<?php endforeach; else: ?> <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?> </p> <?php endif; ?>

What am i doing wrong? and where am i suppose to upload this? do i name it wp-layout.php and downloaded in the the wordpress dictory or do i just downloaded in normally? becaused i named it news.php

Theme? Are you trying to create a theme?

That looks like the index.php that would go in your theme folder (in the wp-content folder). Usually adjustments to the header are made in header.php (or in the stylesheet).

thanx you, i actually got it to work and all. Well i got another question ok i have lik 5 catorgories, ex update, general, etc... but on the main page I only want to display the post from the update category. What's the code for that if that's possible.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/in_category