FYI, I was playing around with HTML and CSS tonight to try to figure out how to do something else (unrelated, for a different project, but what the hay, it's an html thread), and it's working out surprisingly well.
Basically, I'm trying to make a faux newspaper page using CSS and HTML. It's built out of a table, with a header image, columns of headlines and text, and a footer, with an off-white background. Pretty simple stuff, but for an html/css noob like me, it's an accomplishment.