Well I am on a different monitor now and the website looks pretty good!! Now I can see it

The first image looks perfect on my 1024x768 32bit lcd monitor. But it is very dark like nitefly said on my 800x600 16bit crt monitor. So the 2nd image is best to use.

yeah, I probably should have said I was designing for 1024x768 32bit =P... I'm slowly startin to script it. The break in the left nav bar is gonna seperate blog box and random links (links bottom) and they're gonna be 2 different tables so each can be expanded width and height without distortion and also positioned seperately so no need to worry there. Hopefully I'll have this scripted by half-way through April. I'll update as soon as I get the core HTML done with colors for font and different page layouts.