So I have finally completely finished with my CSS Zen garden. After much coding and looking for online sourced it is done. My design didn't come out to what it was planned, but for the moment I am satisfied, perhaps I will work on it some more in the near future, but for now I'm satisfied. One thing that kept breaking my head was how to make the link lists stay put. After much googling i found a good site that explained divs, here's teh link to it http://wickham43.supnet.com/tutorial/divboxes.html
also the tutorial that helped me with adding an image on top of text was this site, heres teh link
http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/replace_text/
one thing that i also did to help me plan out my design somewhat was I color coded all the divs, that way i figured out how big they were and also helped me in a way place them where i wanted. The programs I used for this program were; Illustrator, photoshop, fireworks, and of course dreamweaver.
so for now my CSS Zen Garden is done :)
also i found this this banner in my old work, click on it and it takes you to my homepage.