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I wouldn't recommend an imagemap for the entire site however...try this for slicing:http://slicingguide.com/

Forums are always a good place to get help, since theres such a large range of people to help you out, and they all know different things than everyone else. Glad to see one up here

I only luckily saw it by chance...glad I found it, im pretty sure this will grow pretty quick. I always thought that site needed a forum

All I do is slice it into the main bits, and possible 1px wide images for repeating backgrounds etc, then code it in the css...I usually use them as background images.

Get some books if you don't already, they're the easiest thing. I got a PHP book and learnt more in the last few days than I have in the last few months off the internet. Good luck however.

Nice idea, maybe tutorials to get people onto different IRC clients? (Setup etc on mIRC, HydraIRC, XChat etc..)Not sure if it falls in the categories of the basic topic of the website or not, just an idea