I can't post a URL quite yet, as I'm still heavily editing it and you could get a completely broken site depending on when you look at it. So instead, here is a
210KB Screenshot of the site in progress.
It's a fixed width (because of the pictures at the top), the pictures at the top are randomly chosen from a folder of images, the search button will eventually be a click dropdown menu similar to the search function on version 3 vBulletin boards. The menu on the left expands on click, using javascript and css. The entire site is CSS/XHTML compliant. There isn't a table anywhere. It also uses 24-bit PNGs with alpha channels. It's been tested in win/IE, mac/safari and IE and mozilla. It looks nearly identical in all of them (the only difference being a slight text spacing issue, but the pngs work in win/IE with the sleight js hack).
The trickiest part about this whole thing was getting all that overlapping with the left and right blocks to work. I'm not using background images to get that effect. The white box with the black border is actually a div. So I can change it's color, border, width, etc.. if I ever change my mind.
So yeah, lemme know if you have any questions. I'll be working on trying to get the whole thing integrated properly (I did the whole thing in a static file and then chopped it into the proper .thtml files) into Geeklog over the next few weeks. And I'll post a URL to the finished product if anyone is interested.