Web Design (or lack thereof)

So I've been plotting (planning is actually more accurate, but it sounds less entertaining) another section of le website de Chel to archive the last year or so's worth of my poetry and prose. The problem is that I can't get it to look right. I've always had to work around not having SSH for my navigation, but what I've been envisioning for this webby just doesn't seem to turn out right.

Worst-case scenario I'll just slap up some ugly page. Actually, I might just not upload anything at all. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, you know.