While coding my website I am glad I opted to use the model as a template to sort of work from. I tried doing one myself and it was much messier and I really dont know what I am doing when it comes to the width and padding of things. I am still hasty about moving on to certain things in my website though, as I really am unsure of how to do a lot of things.
I dont really have too many cool ideas for the navigation system but I have a concept that I think I am going to go with. The concept is fairly simple because there is so much information that links together in some way so I wanted my navigation to remain easy to use.