Setting up my design in CodeIgniter

[eluser]Otemu[/eluser]
Better yet follow this great tutorial as it shows you how to create master template page which is more or less what your looking for
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/l...deigniter/

Also eventually your probably need to look at
https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeig...sions-hmvc
Modular Extensions makes the CodeIgniter PHP framework modular. Modules are groups of independent components, typically model, controller and view, arranged in an application modules sub-directory that can be dropped into other CodeIgniter applications.

Hope that helps if you have any more issues with the layout let me know and I send you some example code.