who can help with wordpress templates?

[Stever]

I am just starting to tinker with Wordpress and am having trouble setting up the template to do what i want.

To start, I am playing with the footer file. I added some link exchange banners and nav links to match the rest of the site but for some reason wordpress is adding lots of extra space between these elements. I am no php master so i just copy the code, paste it in an html editor ad my changes, resave as html, and presto. Fucked up pages.

This is for one of my mainstream sites. Once i get the hang of wordpress i have ideas for an adult blog.

PS. is there a way to add content, days in advance, that will automaticly update daily. perhaps through a cron job like you can with autogallerysql or will i need a custom php object added.