Custom TPL Product Info Display from scratch????

Ok, I can't make some changes to the product display page that I want using the tpl or css files.

I think what I need is a custom designed tpl & css product info files but I am not sure if I should attempt it myself or if so where/how to being...

I know html, css...php is another subject entirely for me

basically I need the product area of the page to have 4 main areas as show in my screen shot image below:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9552&stc=1&d=1312785521

The green area - for a good sized product image
The blue area - for product overview
The purple area - for price calculator, add to cart & attributes
The yellow area - for detailed product description

I've got it most of the way there, but I can't seem to make a table in the tpl file to separate the green & blue area, if I could do that I think I could live with it...

Also where the dpu price update is in purple - Id like to have 1 box that has all of these in this order:

Quantity Box
Attribute Options
Price Breakdown
Add to Cart Button

And I would like for the Total Price to be shown dynamically as a pop up that moves/scrolls so that the total price is shown no matter how far up or down the screen the customer moves...

So is that too much to ask? And should I attempt to build the tpl files for it myself?