So I just designed a site for a friend of mine
Simcha Whitehill -- the site address is
SimchaWhitehill.com: she's a amazing writer and was just recently given props at
New Yorker Magazine . Full site launch will go out tonight with all her best stuff.
This is the design:

There are some best practices that I try to follow from
Don't Make Me Think and others from the
Nielson Norman group .