glad to see you have avoided Flash. There are plenty of browsers that can't load it (firewall - company policy etc) and some of us who refuse to load it. There are a lot of folkies out there who have old browsers & don't always feel fluent in their use. I do my site with that in mind. It don't look so cute but its all about content (I put dates on the age of the info). I check the site at work & on Netscape & down at the library and they have IE cut down to the bone to avoid viruses. Any page that uses child windows is impossible to use there, even those on the BBC site!!!!
I might try and crib some of your scripts!! No I have no shame