I'll ask aku what he thinks, thats not a bad idea. Plus since he has more time on his hands that may be a viable solution. ^_^

and xero thx for the comments, there actually is a drop shadow but its kinda hard to see, I might have to modify it a little. and besides, if I get aku in on the design then we might redesign some of the colors and layout.

Also another factor is the fact that in order to make this site viewable we'd have to use flash. Flash is a bandwidth hog app that might make this layout useless. I'm probably gonna have to redesign this layout to make the content area more viable as well; make things easier to use and see. You have to think about it...most ppl dont have flash, and if they do its flash 5. Even more so....if someone doesnt have flash they cant view the site at all. If I use java scripting ppl can still view the site its just that some of the effects wont be animated.

We'll see what happens. *goes back to photoshop*