Don't know if any of you will find this helpful at all as it's just a gallery and contests site, but it's worth a look anyway seeing as some of the work on here is realy well done.
I decided to give my site a go, I uploaded it to my ftp to view it in other browsers. This is just a general idea of what I want to achieve, I want to get the aethetics and structure out of the way first then focus on the graphical side of things after. I might remove the button effect because it can get annoying sometimes! I did have a complete different site before but I scrapped that :)