Thats the style of the menu, it suppose to be like that, i found it to be unique, than having it looking like every other websites there is where the hover only changes its color or its background, the red and black, matches up with the that template, yea the hover link needs to be lighter that much i will agree with you about.The contact link will always be blue, it wasnt suppose too but it came out as a mistake so i ran with it since i fine it to be very nest. lets start with the scrolling text, on all the computers i viewed that specific site, the text isnt almost close to the dates, can you recheck that, the purpose is to make it easier for the views to view each page, i did not want them to have to be clicking on everything, if that was the case it would be better to have them in a pop up window and finish.but thank for your pointers and advices