I'm looking for a source for nice-looking, simple web page templates, style sheets and the like (to save me digging though the HTML books I have, typing a lot of stuff, fiddling and fine tuning), say one of those left-column links, center text area, right-column links sort of things with minimum fluff (we have to remember our dial-up folk after all).

Or, if there's a web-page design application that makes it easy...

I haven't quite mastered Bluefish or just whacking away with vi and would appreciate a pointer in a good, usable direction.

Gettin' old, gettin' tried, ready for the easy way if there is one.

Thanks.

Why don't you find a site like you have in mind and then use "View Source" or wget to crib it? Here's one of my friends' sites similar to what you described: http://www.buzza.in/

There are some css templates here: http://www.solucija.com/

Wow! Lots and lots of choices.

Thanks, all, for the suggestions.

If you have PHP and MySQL hosting, then just install Wordpress and use a Wordpress template.