Geez... I Thought I Knew How To Web Design...

Apparently the one month course I took 4yrs. ago wasn't an intensive study into web designing... It's been taking me days to figure out how I want to present my pages into something half decent... I wanted my pages to look something like this:
templateworld or pixelmill
The second link charges customers lots of money just for templates! My expectations were high, so now, I'm just gonna keep my pages plain until I brush up on my HTML/CSS code skills...

And guys n'gals, that's going to take a long while!
Until then, post y'all later.