From a functional perspective,I'm not a big fan of none standard layouts since they are too difficult to control especially with all the different browsers out there. Inevitably you'll encounter two or three different browsers that will mong up where the text is placed within the circular area even if you do stick with strict XHTML and CSS 2.1
You may wish to check out the Web site:
www.webpagesthatsuck.com for suggestions as what not to do with user interfaces (not that I'm suggesting your design sucks). They have a term called mystery meat navigation which is what you're doing with your arrows. Basically what you're doing is hiding all of the menu selections which is not a good thing to do since the user cannot see the selections which could be 100 or 10 or 3.
Just my 0.02
(,
Sat 11 Mar 2006, 23:46,
archived)
You may wish to check out the Web site:
www.webpagesthatsuck.com for suggestions as what not to do with user interfaces (not that I'm suggesting your design sucks). They have a term called mystery meat navigation which is what you're doing with your arrows. Basically what you're doing is hiding all of the menu selections which is not a good thing to do since the user cannot see the selections which could be 100 or 10 or 3.
Just my 0.02