Here’s an overview of sharepoint branding plus some tips by kanwal khipple

Aren’t we lucky? They have come out with SharePoint designer training that you can download and install. Here is the sharepoint designer 2007 training download

Plus even better, the software, SharePoint designer 2007 is free to download: SharePoint designer 2007

Want to customize and pimp your site but don’t know where to start? We have an intensive 2 days bootcamp that covers the works. We’ll start from the most humble XHTML. If you are not familiar with CSS there is not much that we can customize! So we’ll cover that too. After the fundamentals, we’ll see how to implement the stuff we have learnt into your portal via SD.

Here is the course outline: sharepoint design and branding bootcamp

Assuming you have created a simple CSS menu such as this one or this one ! and have successfully grasp the overall CSS menu concept, you can now proceed to CSS menu goodies.yum!