Here is the code:

<html>
<head>
<title>SITE LINK | description of site</title>

font,body,td,tr,p 
{font-size: 7.5pt; 
font-family: verdana; 
color: #cccfd9;}

A:link, A:active, A:visited
{color: #979f97; 
font-size: 11px; 
font-family: verdana;
text-decoration: none;}

A:hover 
{color: #6e8171;}

b, i, u {font-size: 8pt; 
font-family: tahoma; 
color: #cdd2df;}

h1
{color: #939685; 
padding-top: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
font-size: 10pt; 
font-family: trebuchet ms;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: right;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-weight: bold;
margin:0px;
border-bottom: #474735 dotted 1px;}

h2
{color: #919383; 
background-color: #0e1917;
padding-bottom: 12px;
padding-top: 12px;
font-size: 7px;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: trebucket ms;
letter-spacing:2px;
text-transform:uppercase; 
text-align: center;
margin:0px;}

input,textarea
{background-color: #819085;
border: 0px;
font-size:8px;
color: black;
padding-top:1px;
padding-bottom:1px;}

blockquote 
{color: #dfe0e7;
background-image: url(http://whotrusts.net/images/graphics/layouts/goldencompass/background.jpg);
border-left: #4a391e solid 15px;
border-right: #5c6451 solid 7px;}

</style>
</head>

<h1>main content</h1>
<p>

All of your main content goes here. 
<P>

<p>

<h2>Rules</h2>
<P>

<blockquote><b>001.</b> Keep the credit on!
<br><b>002.</b> <i>PLEASE</i> upload the images in the layout to your own server.  Whether that's your own site, photobucket, imageshack... etc.  If you don't it will be bad for the site in terms of space, and that will limit how long I can provide graphics on the site.   So in other words, if you don't, your layout will be screwed anyhow.
<br><b>003.</b> Comment me if you are using this layout on your site!  I will comment back. ;D
</blockquote>
<p>

<h2>buttons and such</h2>
<P>
<center>
<img src=http://whotrusts.net/images/graphics/layouts/goldencompass/icon.jpg>
<P>

<b>Site Name</b> Short description here.
<P>

<h1>navigate</h1>
<p>

<h1>updates</h1>
<P>

<b>date</b> update
<br><b>date</b> update
<br><b>date</b> update

</center>
</div>

main content

All of your main content goes here.

Rules

001. Keep the credit on!
002. PLEASE upload the images in the layout to your own server. Whether that's your own site, photobucket, imageshack... etc. If you don't it will be bad for the site in terms of space, and that will limit how long I can provide graphics on the site. So in other words, if you don't, your layout will be screwed anyhow.
003. Comment me if you are using this layout on your site! I will comment back. ;D