ummm i want to make a britney spears website...i found a site that has a layout that is similar to what a want except i dont know much html...the site is http://hilary-duff.net/ does anyone know how to do something like that?....

That looks a little advanced for a beginner... You might wanna ditch that and go with something equally informative, but simpler.

It consists of DIVs (http://www.lissaexplains.com/html7.shtml) and iframes (http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml#inline)....

The basic code is:
<img src="large-background-image.GIF">

<div style="position:absolute; top#px; left:#px; width:#px; height:#px;">
text, image, or iframe here
</div>

By changing the #s, you can get your text, image or iframe anywhere on the page. With this method you can also position your text on top of images. They've probably used 2 DIVs - one for the iframe and one for the nav bar.