I suggest taking an used A4 piece of paper and fold it in thirds on both the horizontal and vertical side. Holding the paper vertically, you'll notice you now

I suggest taking an used A4 piece of paper and fold it in thirds on both the horizontal and vertical side. Holding the paper vertically, you'll notice you now have 3 main sections (header, intro, rest of the page) and 3 columns you can arrange your content into. Take another A4 piece of paper, fold it in 3 and then in half this time, you'll have 3 main sections and 2 columns in each section. Now cut each of the 3 blocks from each paper, you will end up with 6 sections (3 with 3 columns and 3 with 2 columns) Try and write some of your content down on these 6 Lego blocks you created, sketch images (or just draw a rectangle with an X inside, that means "image placeholder" in graphic design layouts). This exercise will help you understand how design is just content split in manageable parts. You'll soon notice most sites are not monoliths, but the very same blocks you jotted down on paper. This will make your template-scavengig effective, you'll notice you like certain types of blocks (say 3 columns with a background image) and dislike others (say hero banners with buttons). Steal the ones you like (crop screenshots and save them), then see if you can see what you like in each of those you saved. Try and recreate them as abstractly as you can either on paper or by using the rectangle tool in any graphic editor (don't get lost making it perfect, you'll get there faster by doing it by code instead than using graphic design tools). Toy with design, it's all a fad anyway and what matters is what I've outlined here: blocks, columns, steal what you like.