Firs thing is you have to do is to make - or to download - an HTML page; when you open it with your chosen editor, you'll notice the page will have the following structure.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> --> this and the above make the header in all HTML pages
<title>page title</title> --> the page title (only modifiable between > and <)
<link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> --> link to stylesheet </head> --> this closes the page's header
<body> --> this starts the page content (elements to be visible must be between body and /body)
<div id="navigation">navigation here</div> --> the site links will be here
<div id="content">content here</div> --> all the content will be here
</body>
</html> --> the last two elements close the page
Now put the HTML page you have above aside for a moment and, with your chosen editor, create three php files and call them head.php, foot.php and index.php.
The first file, head.php, is where the HTML page's header goes; you simply copy the code on your HTML page and paste it on the file. For the file to work, the code has to look like shown here below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>page title</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head><body>
<div id="navigation">navigation here</div>
<div id="content">
</div></body>
</html>
<?php include(''); ?>
<?php include('head.php'); ?>content here
<?php include('foot.php'); ?>
I alomst forgot: the file names are not mandatory; as long as you match the parts I showed you to your files names, you can rename the three files to whatever you want.
NOTE :: To have your full site done with PHP Include, you just have to copy the index.php for how many times how are your pages and edit the spaces between the php snippets with your content.