I have used some days to write a huge article, to help people out with customizing WordPress. The title is »From XHTML/CSS to WordPress« and the article takes you through the whole process from a final (x)HTML/CSS design, to a finished WordPress theme, step by step, explaining how's and why's. Read the article here What do you think? If you like it, be sure you digg it as well
Your site is unreadable at 800x600. Thought it might be IE. Loaded FF same result. Changed to 1024 and it looked nice in both but these old eyes could not enjoy reading it.