I've been building sites the old school way and need to brush up some more on
CSS. I am trying to build something similar to the xerox site
http://www.xerox.com/ which uses CSS but is very clean.

I have saved the page and put this into DW to have a look but the background
has disapeard as well as the small boarders around the content so i'm unable to
see how this is acheived.

My question is for eg: making the small rounded tabs on the tops and bottoms
of each content blocks. The old school way would be to make a table with 3 rows
and 3 cols and make a top left tab, middle top, right top and so on.

How do you acheive this in CSS? What is th best way to work with graphical
elements such as navigation bars?

any tutorials?

> How do you acheive this in CSS? What is th best way to work with graphical
> elements such as navigation bars?

http://www.roundedcornr.com/ makes the rounded corners for you and
gives you the CSS

For nav bars it depends on what type of nav bar. You can set a NavDiv
with a background and then input button images within the div through
classes for example.