*Sigh*  Why must the Peeps always be stale?

I've been thinking more about the final site lately and have decided that for the bottom portion where my scrolling bar might be, I will leave the background transparent so the gradient is visible through it.  Also I will expand the edges of the page by moving the scrolling bar out further on the right side, and will have something else on the left side to balance it out.  

In the top portion I'm still worried about the actual presentation of the work which would be selected from below.  Since they're in rectangular orientation, I'll have to deal with trying to find a happy medium for the size of the picture and still have enough room to put some text beside it describing the project. 


I may look into trying to do something like putting the text under the picture.  The picture could be smaller and have description directly below it.  The only issue there is that unless I put a LOT of text in there, it might just look like a picture with captions below, whereas I'd rather it be the centerpoint of the page with plenty of stuff to read about it.