fthe best way to begin your journey of building a website is to use a premade layout and start learning by tweaking it to your own liking. there are alot of people who make neocities layouts that you can use for free (some do ask that you give them credit so read all their instructions). the most handy 'plug-my-preferences-and-make-it-for-me' layout generator was made by sadgrl.online here. honestly, she is the most followed user on neocities for a reason and her own webmastery page (which heavily influenced this one) will be your revised code for free resources (her website is also very cool - her internet manifesto gave me new perspective). you can also take a look at the css for this page here. looking at the 'bare bones' of code helps to make it understandable. w3school, liveweave, talk about how to search for answers a bit