CSS - Novice !

Hi all,

I have a problem with a website I am trying to build. The website is designed to be in three colums with the centre one containing the site content. Both the left and right column contain only a background image that provides the site good aesthetics. Below are links to diagrams of both how the site is currently displayed, and how i would like it to be displayed;

http :// securetransaction .co .uk /orangepi /images /2.jpg

http :// securetransaction .co .uk /orangepi /images /1.jpg

Any help would be greatly apreciated, i can provide the current code if necessary.

Cheers

[A view of what I want the final product I made in photoshop is attached.]

When it comes to the technical aspect of design I BS my way through most of it or pick it up as I go along. On top of this, I'm too anal to use anything but Notepad to edit my code, but that's not the problem. This is: The image at the bottom of the page is what I'd like the damn page to look like without the use of Flash (I could do that, but I want to make a seperate site design that uses flash and keep this to HTML, CSS and maybe Javascript). So, I found this: URL and I think it's what I want, but, my first thought was that it was an arhived post. It actually appears to be an unanswered post. I tried it out, and sure enough it doesn't work. Well, I was hoping it would, because I'm more geared towards Graphic Design and no coding. I tend to design em first and fill in the blanks later. Well, this time, my code isn't the only thing that's blank and I'm just this page and another very similer one away from finishing the site, so I need help. Here's how I planned to put the thing together: It's an HTML table centered in the middle of the page. I was planning on planting the CSS in the gaping hole left by removing a section of table, and praying it fit snugly. Am I going about this wrong? And if I'm not and that link is the solution to my problems, how do I implement it into my code? I tried a test version of it, and couldn't get it to work, but I'll tell you now, I only have a theoretical graps of CSS and haven't dove into it as of yet...thus I know nothing really. And on top of this, I want to make those two left side text pieces link to anchors in the scrolling text. And those things on the right side are customized scoll bars. The latter is not nesscary (I know that's java script. I had it on a site I did a while ago, but the site is lost and I didn't code that section), but it would be optimum. So that's it, and, well, if it works, it will look pretty.

Thanks for your help before hand, if this is too rambling, please feel free to tell me to better describe it. I'm in a bit of a rush, and as soon as I hit "Submit" I'm running out the door.
------->Jeff Compton