Working with category

Hi equaldesign and esmi!

First, i tried to work with “Query Posts”, but i got in trouble. I don’t know where should i put these code.

Reading the page that ‘equaldesign’ send me, i see that i have to include

“
query_posts(‘cat=1’);

“
to show only the posts from Category ID=1

However, where should i write these code? In what file?.

And Esmi, a template with 2 column isn’t enough? Or 3 is better?

Thanks a lot!!

Here’s what i got…

i’ve tryed a lot of thing to resolve this problem, but nothing fix it.

Bellow is the start of my “index.php” file:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php

query_posts('cat=4');

query_posts('showposts=5');

?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<!--Start Post-->

<div <?php post_class(); ?> style="margin-bottom: 40px;">

<div class="p-head">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small class="p-time">

Here’s the start of file “page.php”

<?php

query_posts('cat=1');

//The Query
query_posts('showposts=5');

//The Loop
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
 ..
endwhile; else:
 ..
endif;

//Reset Query
wp_reset_query();

?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<?php
    global $post;
    $the_newest = get_posts(‘numberposts=1′);
    $the_newer = get_posts(‘numberposts=3&offset=1′);
    $the_new = get_posts(‘numberposts=5&offset=4&order=DESC&orderby=post_date’);
?>

<div class="p-head">

What should I do?
I really need help!
Thanks!