How do I make a layout?

How do I make a layout? I have nooo idea. I am going crazy trying to figure it out!

first you need the bg pictures and the photomanip. then lost of html, its kinda confusing and intimidating when you first look at it id sugjest geting a free layout and fooling around with it alot till ou understand how it works then you can take it apart and add and take out things you want or fdont want. thats how i made my first layout .

what do you mean by messing around

no clue what she means:x

A layout is all about HTML. Two pretty good starters guides I first learnt off were howrseinfo's http://howrseinfo.com/index.php/html-basics which explains about HTML in regards to Howrse and, weirdly enough, Neopet's guide (which was great, as it was in an easy-to-understand format, despite having to ignore some Neopets-only stuff) at http://www.neopets.com/help/html1.phtml

They teach you the basics but it's up to you to do what you want. I started off by taking other peoples free layouts on sites like Howrseinfo and then changing a few things, like the background image or small things. Slowly I worked up and now I'm attempting a full blown image/HTML alignment layout! I also developed my own style in that period of time.

One important code I find that those two don't mention is the autoscroll box, which is . If in an HTML format, the "and the closing tag" would start scrolling if enough was written! In that case, if anything above 260x200px of writing was done, then it would have started to scroll.

Argh, I mean div align="center" style="overflow: auto; width: 260px; height: 200px;" , add the chevrons yourself. I didn't realize that this had HTML enabled.. with closing tag /div.

So do you need a software for making layouts, or can you just alter them on the HTML mode on Howrse?

Try looking at howrseinfo.com That is where I started I am working on getting better though!