How to make a manually defined pretty page

[Ed Valentine]

I would like to display many fields of detail from a query in a
complex page. I do not want to display all of the fields on the left
side. This is a specific project and the page display needs to be
pretty. I need to have the data from the DB and some editing allowed.

Is there a way to pass X,Y coordinates or create a custom template
with all of the locations defined?

Thanks for any suggestions.