Well, I've spent some time working on this set. I think it's almost ready for prime time. I'm rather happy with the way it's turned out. I used Paint Shop Pro 6 for most of the graphics on the page with the Eye Candy plug-in for its inner and outer bevels. The flowers are ForgetMeNot tubes from DigArts' Jungle Bundle 2D CD.

The font for the welcome banner and the navbar at the left is Edwardian Script ITC in a deep violet - #52037B. I'm not sure where I picked up the Edwardian font but you can check a few shareware font libraries for it.

The colors I've used for the webpage:
Text: #663399
Links: #6666FF
Visited: #990099
Active: #FFFFFF

I've been experimenting with some of the more advanced layout capabilities in HTML in order to produce this set. The best place to learn about full border backgrounds is from a tutorial on Ann-S-Thesia's site. In order to use this set you'll have to have a good understanding of HTML tables for layout purposes.

You'll also need to use an image map program to generate the html code for the navigation bar at the left. Some of the WYSIWYG HTML editors have this feature. Otherwise, there are programs available that will walk you through this such as the shareware programs: LiveImage available from MediaTek or MapEdit from Boutell. Or, you can learn how to write the code from the ImageMap Help Page.

Enoy!