HTML - Hi New Starter

Hi All,
I am not totally new to website creation but I was hoping someone might be able to give me some guidance on getting a basic site layout setup.

I basically want a nice background picture and then header, body and footer laid out in a similar method to this: http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/web-design.php

Any help gratefully received!. I am off to have a go again

i was wandering whats the best code to look into for a noob to web design. I know a little in html, but i was wandering is there a certain new language that might be really popular in the future maybe the newest language for web design? thanks....and also please include if you could a website to help you learn it