[support] Different page designs for zen theme

[Roger]

Hello
How would I go about creating different page displays using zen 
starterkit. On google and StackOverflow others have asked similar 
questions but the answers do not work or are inconclusive. I have used 
Panels but would like to learn how to theme the required pages myself.


I have page--page1.tpl.php, page--page2.tpl.php etc each with it's own 
html and css. Zen template.tpl.php has 3 includes probably core functions.

I need pages in which the html and css is entirely different for 
instance, page1.tpl.php has 2 columns, no header, no footer with small 
text and image blocks in each column, page 2 has header 3 columns and 
footer, text should flow into adjacent columns and so on for each page.  
I do not want a baseline template like page.tpl.php. Creating html and 
css code is no problem.

I have content types for each page and added a few characters in each 
page created in each content type but localhost/drupal/page1 does not 
call the html and css from that page instead defaulting to page.tpl.php 
which overrides all  pages except page_front.tpl.php and places it's 
header and primary content on all pages then my page1, etc displays 
underneath.

I appreciate any help to solve this
thanks
Roger