Style Ive Been Trying To Do

Two Examples on is a live link (I hope thats okay), the other an image in herer (also hope thats ok)

1) http://perlucere.com - This was an attempt to do a style I saw all over the place, I wanted so bad to do it, I just kept trying and finaly got to where I wanted.

2) This one same situation as above, This one is still a WIP, and It is insipred from all the sites that look like it lol, but maily vbskins.com (Am i aloud to post that)

Image:

Home represents the rollover
Any Ideas for the header and content area would be greatly apreciated.