Simple homepage for music website

I need a simple homepage and one single page template for inner pages. The website exists at present at musiccoursework dot co dot uk so the information is up. In addition I need somewhere on the home page for news items and as you can see the inside pages are as on the homepage though the links page isn't up yet. I only need the home page designed as I need to cut costs. I don't have any fixed colour in mind so feel free to be creative. I do like simple lines and don't like things that are too fussy. I don't want Joomla or anything fancy, nor do I want the site to be done entirely in flash as I want to be able to add things and monetize it. Please show examples of previous sites done. The winning bid will be selected on three things. Cost / previous website examples and an ability to do the project quickly. An ability to do the site to W3C standards may be an avantage but primarly the site must be easy to maintain, monetize and add graphics to. Further work will be available (at least 3 sites) if the work is of sufficient standard. No Wordpress designs please and ability to suit most IE, Firefox, Netscape and Opera. Thank you