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Don't make me think
A common sense approach to web usability
Second Edition
Steve Krug
ISBN: 0-321-34475-8

This book (if it has not already been suggested), will help you with layout and page organization. It will also help you because it shows many examples of sites that have good layout design. Start with the fundamentals.