beautiful!
I shrunk the image size to remove the areas that were only black, that way the image is smaller and, thus, the page views faster. I put the new image under "images" (where all images should go), added a basic css file and stuck an image map on the buttons. Go check it out.
http://glest.codemonger.org/enter-sample.htmlWhat do you make all of these cool images in? Also, my html code isn't properly formatted, so that part isn't meant to be an example of good style. It's probably best not to have a lot of links and buttons that do not go to valid pages or are for features that are a long ways off. So I would prefer if you removed both buttons from the login image and then we can overlay buttons as we please using nifty html/css mechanisms (tables & such). So just render the image minus the buttons and then make some buttons (you can anti-alias them & such if you please, makes them look nicer).
On another note, try to keep the structure of your html pages as simple as possible. Avoid too many nested tables if possible and avoid specifying explicit height & width whenever possible as well. I usually only do this when I need images to align and almost never use explicit height & width specifications otherwise, I let the layout rules of the html, css, dom & browser decide that. I guess I also use explicit pixel measurements when trying to get a certain border or margin as well (something along those lines). Try to remember that some people are viewing this at 1024x768 (the lowest browser resolution that is generally acceptable these days) and some at 1920x1200 (like myself) or more.
I do use nested tables fairly regularly, this is because it's often the only way to get the layout that I want and have it work consistently across browsers and such. Also, I prefer css to javascript. If I can get some visual effect or behavior to work via css (like mouseovers & such) then it's better than javascript. Many people (like myself) use the Mozilla noscript plugin so javascript is disabled by default until it's explicitly allowed for each web page. Personally, I make fairly liberal use of javascript because I like to make pages that are highly functional (AJAX-ish), but I will use CSS or HTML whenever possible and try to make pages as functional as possible even without javascript -- and it's a challenge to have very dynamic web pages that are also functional (at least minimally) without javascript!
