Alright see I want to have a column on the left that has all my links and stuff in it and then in the middle a spot were I can put pictures and text...CAN YOU HELP ME? PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I need HELP! This is for my dads work webpage and he asked me to design it so I need help fast!

You can use tables (http://www.lissaexplains.com/tables.shtml):
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="2" width="600" height="600">
<tr>
<td width="100">Links here</td>
<td width="500">Content here</td>
</tr>
</table>

Or frames (http://www.lissaexplains.com/frames.shtml):
<frameset cols=20%,80%>
<frame src="left.html" name="leftside">
<frame src="right.html" name="rightside">
</frameset>

Or divs (http://www.lissaexplains.com/html7.shtml):
<div style="position:absolute; top:10px; left:10px; width:200px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">Links here</div>
<div style="position:absolute; top:10px; left:310px; width:400px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">Content here here</div>


If you're new with html, you may find the tables approach a little easier ^__^

Don't rely on divs. Your site is gonna look really bad if you make your site too long* and the low-res computers have vertical scrollbars.

* <!-------------------------------------------------------------------------Long------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

Yeah, and not all browsershave frames and if you specify widths pixels, and not %'s, its also gonna look messed up with vertiacl scrollbars.

Use tables.

Yeah div's can be messy but so can tables...in my opinion they are both yucky. I had tried all of them on my site and the frames were confusing, tables...well the site didn't allow them for some reson, so div ended up working :). I figured out ways making it so the scroll bar doesn't show up... I had to remove and add a lot of stuff but it ended up working. I am not a beginner at HTML but I am not a expert either... I deffinetly needed a second opion. THANK YOU SO MUCH!