This shall forever be known as "that layout that got me out of that design rut." It turned out pretty nice but for whatever reason no one but me seemed to like it. It has a really snazzy hover effect on the link things. The title stems from the fact that I had been playing HL2 while doing this. There is no actual HDR in this design for some reason.
This is the site as it looked on February 6th, 2006:
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