Starting a new website - Need some help?

You are using php includes, quite correctly, to save labour by only having to write common content once. However, judging by the rest of your question you still need to learn basic html and css. You will need a proper page layout including Doctype Declaration, head and body sections, and then a stylesheet to add styling. Try a href="http://www.freewebtutorial.co.uk" rel="nofollow"http://www.freewebtutorial.co.uk/a