Os pongo el código que he hecho con Dreamweaver a ver como lo véis.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>PRUEBA</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
img {
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
}
#CAPOTA {
position:relative;
left:-20px;
top:-10px;
width:850px;
height:100%;
z-index:1;
background-color: #000000;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image: url(nuevaestructura2012/fondocapa.jpg);
}
-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
//-->
</script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="estilo_principal_2012.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#BOTONERA { position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:150px;
width:850px;
height:24px;
z-index:2;
background-color: #FFCC00;
}
#CABECERA { position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:0px;
width:850px;
height:150px;
z-index:1;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
#LATERAL {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:175px;
width:200px;
height:848px;
z-index:3;
background-color: #999900;
}
#centro { position:absolute;
left:200px;
top:174px;
width:650px;
height:396px;
z-index:4;
background-color: #FF0000;
}
#contenido { position:absolute;
left:200px;
top:573px;
width:650px;
height:450px;
z-index:5;
background-color: #FF3366;
}
#pie { position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:1023px;
width:850px;
height:41px;
z-index:6;
background-color: #FFFF00;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="CAPOTA">
<div id="capa-sombra"> //-->
<div id="CABECERA">CABECERA</div>
<div id="BOTONERA">BOTONERA</div>
<div id="LATERAL">LATERAL</div>
<div id="centro">CENTRO</div>
<div id="contenido">CONTENIDO</div>
<div id="pie">PIE</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>