[FONT=Arial]im pretty good with html coding but as far as an actual layout comes along like i can edit others but i want to be able to make my own [ can ANYone help me out ] even in the slightest way its better than nothingg

i love this one layout & want to do something similar to it

..http://img290.imageshack.us/img290/7990/britt6nd.png thats a sample

do you mean having the text smushed together like that?

<font style="letter-spacing: -2pt; line-height: 7;">text</font>

You can fiddle around with the numbers until you get the effect you want :)