I am stuck with the colors, since they are the colors of the company logo(the colors suck). The space for navigation is cramped, but I am working on a design to improve that, I don't need much space since most of the page links will be in popup menus, and they will come off the side, if i keep the design. I have some other ideas for the design that are simpler, but who wants simple when you can make something hard

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The page wont be restricted, because the image will be cut up and put into tables. One section a couple of pixles thick, will be set to tile as a background image, allowing the page to expand downward without any trouble
example can be found here :
http://www.lwd.ca/InternalSites/Phen...D_Template.htm