Portfolio Proof of Concepts and Div Layout

My design for my portfolio homepage is complete, so today I spent time figuring out the way I want my navigation to function. I found this useful resource that includes css3 (that degrades gracefully when not supported) the first example on this page is similar to how I want my navigation, except I flipped the arrow to be underneath and animate on hover as well as sped up the effect.

For my front page I also plan on having a content slider, and found this resource which comes really close to what I’m looking for and also has the same arrow based design as my navigation - so I can just change the look of the example.

So now that I have the major effects I have going on my site, I started figuring out how to layout my design using HTML/CSS because my design incorporates some 3D looking elements that will require some layered div tags.

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