Over a survey that a website company took, left hand navigation seems to be easiest one to follow most sites use buttons but make them easy to read.

Here are a few sites that provide graphical buttons that you would merely save, insert into your web pages.

http://www.aaa-buttons.com/html/1-8.shtml

http://www.newcybertech.com/buttons_new.html

And here's a very useful article on modding someone's buttons so for example putting a 'roll on' which simply changes the images once you put your mouse over it to make it look even more appealing.

http://www.thesitewizard.com/wizards...-buttons.shtml

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