Vbull/CSS/coding Help?

[rokked]

I'm fairly new to the coding angle of things, and want to redesign my layout in a rather complicated (or what I consider complicated) manner. I'm trying to figure out things like making the background just one image instead of using a header image, how to keep the forum index from changing sizes when windows get smaller, that sort of thing. Basically set up a format where the background (including the header) is behind the forum index.

I looked through the tutorial thread, I know Photoshop and all of that, but my question is if anyone knows any resources where I can look at specifically designed formats of VBulletin formats and maybe even find tutorials on how to build similar projects. Like I said, I know what I want it to look like, I'm just having trouble getting it to play out since I'm new to coding.

Any advice appreciated!