What a month it's been!

Today I got in touch via email with a graphic artist. Here's what I've asked for and why.

• an HTML template - or series of templates - into which I can drop my content. This will simplify the development process and provide a consistent look across the entire site. This is an important design consideration to achieve unity and help establish an identity and presence.
  
• navigation and banners as small as we reasonably can to maximize the space for the content. There will be a LOT of content and I was thinking a very small right-hand navigation would be nice. I want to try this because I recently read right-handed web users can more accurately click on things in the right.
  
• a series of banners for the top of the template pages. The banners should be relatively consistent. My name on the home page. Then all others could have my name washed out (20% or so) and the name of the section at 100% or something close to 100%.
  
• I like script fonts, but I think Edwardian is too fancy. (Bickley Script is about right).
• I think I'd like a blue color scheme, but I'm negotiable on that. My big concern is that I don't want this to look too feminine because I plan to use this professionally.
• a clean background behind the text. White is fine, but anything else would have to be very, very subtle.
• some very small icons/graphics named reflection, artifact, and printer-friendly, one or two different bullets and a very simple dividing bar.
• I'd like the proejct done in CSS if possible. That way I could easily change it at a later date.