Above is how I would like my home page to look like, it is very simple and plain, however I wanted to start with what I understood how to do, I did not want to include lots and lots of advanced elements as I wanted to create a fully functioning site, that was easy to navigate your way round, therefore catering for the all abilities.
However as simple as it is to look at, I found it very confusing at some points in its development. For example I got it all in place how I wanted it, but the navigation at the top of my page would not link or change colour when I hovered over it. This I found very confusing indeed. It was as if something was over the top of it, even when I used firebug it could not find/select it. After much restructuring my pages both in CCS and HTML, and through trial and error of removing elements and rearranging I did manage to sort it out.
I created all my images, for example, the navigation bar and the various different titles, I then saved them to web and devices so I was then able to insert them as divs onto my site. It was important to have a strong and well structured file structure.
My navigation bar, to create that almost painted look effect on the edge of the circle, I applied a brush style, and just changed the size and colour to each circle, I feel that this is very effective.
Once I had sorted out my problem with the nav bar, that I explained above, I then used the working page and duplicated it several times and just changed links, text etc, I did this so I knew that they in theory should all work, this worked!
These are my wire frames, both the home and internal pages :
