It would help to try keep the look-and-feel aspects discussed
in a separate thread and leave the browser-specific things
to the other threads.

A few issues have been identified so far. Please add any more
such high-level issues.

1) Square edges on the panels vs rounded corners.

2) Need minimum indents for <ul><li> in the menu panel.
Can basic CSS can fix that?

3) Where will the page title be placed? Will it just be the
first piece of content below the light-blue "Page 1 of 5"?
Will it be an <h2> level heading?

4) Is something gained by the white vertical bar down
the left-hand side of the window? We need to retain all
possible page space.

*) More?