Webbity annoyance

I'm an odd creature. Joomla is easy. CSS not that hard. HTML makes me vaguely crazy. Wishin' I had access to a dummy XHTML file that I could use as the source code for my page/template. It would be a lot easier to alter than to create from scratch. Actually, I wish I had a Premium Lynda.com subscription so I could snag the example files from the class I've been watching and just use THAT.

*grump*