The reproduction I was talking about is finished (more or less) and is to be found through my "official" section or here -original here. Now it's gonna get technical...
I have gotten rid of frames, relying on a fixed layout throughout to carry the same effect. Given the simplicity of the pages, it's no big harm to send the header information over and over again. I use only two divs, maybe I could get rid of them but that would really be pushing it to the very end -might as well serve it as xml while we're at it!
I've used all the wonderful tools at my disposal: first and foremost, FireFox but also two very web-designer oriented extensions. The first one, Colorzilla is a lot more than a pixel-precise color picker: it allows for measuring, and DOM-path checking, which is just purrfect for _cascading_ style sheets... Consider the following nice example:
#releases ul li {padding-bottom: 2em}
#releases ul li ol li {padding-bottom: 0}
But It would have taken me MUCH longer without Edit CSS, a sidebar-like plugin that allows you to rewrite CSS -live! for whichever page (server or local) and see the consequences of rules applied AS YOU TYPE! And now, for those still reading, the trophy...
I had started out fine, coding the mainframe and checking it under FF, then laying out in CSS. Once it was done and properly laid, IE (crash-)test. I could use simpler rules like the one above, instead of the more savvy + and > ooperators so I didn't really pull my hair. Now, my pages look just fine under FF and IE and I decide to check Opera, which being reputedly compliant shouldn't cause any harm when IE manages to behave without hacks. Heck! no... 
My divs float inside the other like lovers interlaced, which is graphically nice but absolutely not expected. What went wrong... float? overflow? margins and borders, some other property that I forgot to nullify straight through? There are many possibilities and I know too little about Opera to just pinpoint it by looking at it. Gotta go (badminton match), but also gotta get back on this one...
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