Make use of wrapping layouts in Craft I am a beginner when it comes to Craft and I have a hard time finding good detailed tutorials when it comes to specific questions. I know that Craft has it's own documentation but for me it's a little hard to find exactly what I want. So what I would like to know is how you can embed the header and the footer in every page with a simple tag.

I know that in Expression Engine all you had to do is was the following:

&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;News Site&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
    {layout:contents}
  &lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;


And on any other page you could add this tag and you were done.

{layout="site/.html-layout"}

{exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
  &lt;h2&gt;{title}&lt;/h2&gt;
  {summary}
{/exp:channel:entries}


How can I achieve the same thing in Craft? Thank you for your time and help :)
Craft's uses the Twig templating language. The official Twig documentation http://twig.sensiolabs.org is really good, highly recommended to read most of it!

For your specific problem have a look at the section about the extends tag. It explains how to define blocks and extend other template files. Another important technique is including partials into a template with the include tag.

For a good and rather simple example I would recommend to read the source code of Pixel and Tonic's On The Rocks Craft demo page.