Sites, incdredibly basic text based. First thing you want to do is tryt and build a more graphical layout, usieng a few images. i would presonly suggest building it in to a table, as there easy to work with. As well as come up with a struture, aka, top navigtion, bar, then content, possibly a poll, sub nav or somthing as a side bar.
Use images to giev it the appeance of sticking out of the page with a 3d effect, to allive the planess and have the content so its on a didfrnt could to the mian background "/
Working on your stuture, this sort of configution (has a side bar)
<table width="98%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>Link - Link - Link - Link - Link </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="98%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="18%" valign="top" >Side Bar Conetent
</td>
<td width="82%" valign="top">Main content </td>
</tr>
</table>
Athogh id advice setting background images and colours, aka for teh nav possibly use a gradiant, so as to ad a 3d effect.
u can add backgroudn images by useing the
background=""
atrruibue which would go inside the table, along with outher atrubutes, aka width, height, boreder alignment etc etc
Just add the images URL between the quaotion marks