Hi Guys

I wanted an area of four columns running under the header image, similar to the attachment.
I've designed it in photoshop/dreamweaver to show you, but want to really design the site in wordpress if its possible

Any ideas on how this could be done - although not quite a newbie, my technical understanding is limited so be gentle please

Per the instructions in the Add New Widget Area section of the theme options you could add a new widget area to the Configure Header Area box and use a table with 4 cells in a text widget. Or you could create a 4 celled widget area and put separate widgets in each of the 4 areas.