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I would suggest using the CSS and an image as it only needs one request. First off is the xhtml. This can vary so I'll leave you to decide on that but whatever it is you'll need an anchor tag so we'll style that. In my example I'll pretend that all the links are within a container (div, or span or even a list item) just to make it easy. The container has an id of 'navigation'. Now the css. #navigation a { width: 200px; /* Width of individual link */ line-height: 100px; /* Height of individual link */ text-align: center; background: #fff url('images/navigation.gif') center left no-repeat; /* Inserts image as background and places it to the left */ display: block; /* Makes it all clickable */ float: left; /* Forces it inline */ margin: 0 5px 0; /* 5px margin on the left and right of each link */ } That should give you something helpful. You can create the rollover/hover effect like this: #navigation a:hover, #navigation a:focus { background-position: center right; color: #ccc; } Make sure your image is twice the width of the individual link and that on the left side is the normal state and on the right side the hover state. I write an article about it on my blog. Tabbed CSS Navigation. Hope that helps. Its much better in the long run with CSS.

Yeah the children popping up is kinda distracting. If you got rid of that you could also then make that navigational area using CSS making it more accessible. The navigation at the top, works fine but maybe try vertically centering all of them. When I first looked at it the items with two words stood out too much. That might just be me though. Overall nice design and I love that header.

I like it. Looks very nice. Only problem of course is accessibility but if your not too worried about it then you've done a fine job.

I used it and write a short guide about it on my website. It was easy to use but all of the drawbacks stated above mean I would much rather start from scratch (gives me more flexibility and control that way)

I think this is in the wrong topic... but regarding your question. It all depends what your making the template for. Your best bet would be to create all the pages before hand and then port them to whatever platform you plan to create the template for.

I think Dizi is right. Maybe try adding some drop shadows and something that looked odd was that the border around the main content isn't the same colour as the border around the side bar sections.

HTML isn't hard to learn at all. I think rather than getting some software you purchase a good book. One I can't recommend more is CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd. It taught me tons.

I'll deffinately make use of this teaching a small class web design in a couple of months so that can help all of them. Thanks

Hi everyone. I have been looking around for a nice active forum for web design and of course found you guys. My name is Darren and I am a student in the UK. I currently run a blog at gamemakker.co.uk for those interested it covers basic topics regarding web design and development (it's not that big). I hope I can help out and be helped as well. Thanks for reading, hope to hear from you.