You can place an instance of PortalWebPartZone or PortalWebPartZoneTableless (the preferred one) wherever you want. It should look like this.
... your HTML code...
<
portal:PortalWebPartZoneTableless
HeaderText
=
'MyNewZone'
ID
=
"myZone"
runat
=
"server"
Width
=
"100%"
ChromeTemplateFile
=
"Standard.htm"
>
<
ZoneTemplate
>
... your web parts go here...
</
ZoneTemplate
>
</
portal:PortalWebPartZoneTableless
>
... the rest of your code...