I flip the html of this template and converted into PHP which has been coded to work with SiteSkin available at:
http://scripts.indisguise.org/.
Working Demo:
http://heidi.hostingwithus.net/~surfsupn/sheriff/index.phpheader.php file:
<?php
require_once( 'skins/ohiosheriff/config.php' );
?><!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>
<meta content="en-us" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta name="keywords" content="
<?php echo "$keywords"; ?>" />
<meta name="description" content="
<?php echo "$description"; ?>" />
<link href="skins/ohiosheriff/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="skins/ohiosheriff/media.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="hnav">
<div id="menu">
<?php echo "$topmenu"; ?> <div class="clearL"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="MainBody">
<div id="COL-left">
<div class="vnavwrapper">
<div class="vnavhead">
<?php echo "$box1title"; ?></div>
<div class="vnavbody">
<div class="vmenu">
<?php echo "$box1content"; ?> </div>
</div>
<div class="vnavfooter"></div>
</div>
<div class="vnavwrapper">
<div class="vnavhead">
<?php echo "$box2title"; ?></div>
<div class="vnavbody">
<div class="vmenu">
<?php echo "$box2content"; ?> </div>
</div>
<div class="vnavfooter"></div>
</div>
<div class="vnavwrapper">
<div class="vnavhead">
<?php echo "$box3title"; ?></div>
<div class="vnavbody">
<div class="vnavinfo">
<?php echo "$box3content"; ?><?php echo "$sideboxspace"; ?> </div>
</div>
<div class="vnavfooter"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="COL-right">
<div class="cntwrapper">
<?php echo "$headerad"; ?> footer.php file:
<?php echo "$footerad"; ?> </div>
<div class="cntfooter">
<div class="signature">Mary D, Webmaster</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearB"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="ftlinks">(c)
<?php echo "$copyrightyear"; ?> <?php echo "$sitetitle"; ?> Designed by
   </font> <a class="LINKurl" href="http://www.themekings.net" target="_top" >Todd Swift</a>
PHP Coded by
   </font> <a class="LINKurl" href="http://maryd.webbpg.com" target="_top" >Mary D</a>
<?php echo "$footerlinks"; ?> </div>
<div class="disclaimer">
<?php echo "$disclaimer"; ?> </div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
