Page template is accessing the incorrect posts?

Question

Hi I'm attempting to create my own custom template that will have a format like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

    <div id="container">

      <div id="top-half">
      <!--fixed content here that is stored in the page template-->
      </div>

           <div id="bottom-half">
   <!--Content pulled from the actualpage that has this template assigned to it-->
           </div>
 </div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Right now I'm using <?php the_content(); ?> and instead of pulling the page content, it's pulling a specific post from my post list. I'm not quite sure why this is happening.

UPDATE: The code below was located in a widget that was being processed just before the Wordpress loop took effect in my template. I didn't reset my query using wp_reset_query(); so Wordpress displayed only a single post.

    <?php query_posts('p=63'); ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    <?php endwhile;?>

Answer 1

You pull content normally. You don't have to specify any id, as page/post will use template it is assigned to, so I don't really understand your question.

Answer 2

Here is what worked for me:

   <?php query_posts('p=63'); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   <?php endwhile;?>

   <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>