how to show a nav bar the right way

[progman1010]

OK, so my designer made a really cool navigation bar but it's kinda stumped me as to the best way to display it without going nuts with lines of extra code.

It has a mouseover which will change the blue tabs to green, and when you mouseover, the subnav will display. In addition, when you are on a particular page, the tab will highlight green to show where you are, in addition to the regular mouseovers on any tab.

Attached is a self-contained zip with the website thus far. I know I could do this with PHP and a whole bunch of IFs, but there's gotta be a better, less-taxing way to do this with an algorithim instead.

Any ideas?

 

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[tyutghf]

There are loads of great css showcase websites out there that have sample code and examples you can just plug and play with.

 

[progman1010]

johnwn- thanks for reminding me.

tyutghf- i've been googling for a while and couldn't really find anything specific to my issue. It's really more of the approach i'm having trouble with- because of the overlaps in the tabs, it's not as straightforward as if the tabs were more separate (vertical separator lines vs. curved/diagonal lines).