Hello Gene-2008,
great work, please go on!
Two things you could improve:
1. You link to the wrong coppermine logo.
In template.html, change
<img id="logo" src="themes/classic/images/coppermine-logo.png" alt="Logo" />
to
<img id="logo" src="themes/classic_w_drop/images/coppermine-logo.png" alt="Logo" />
2. Preload your menu background images to improve user experience.
I recommend to not use Javascript, because if you did, preloading would start after the last thumb has been loaded (which is too late). Instead, you could insert in template.html directly after the body-tag this code:
<img src="themes/classic_w_drop/images/menu_drop_0.gif" width="0" height="0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px;outline-width:0px;" alt="place holder" />
<img src="themes/classic_w_drop/images/menu_drop_1_grey.png" width="0" height="0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px;outline-width:0px;" alt="place holder" />
<img src="themes/classic_w_drop/images/menu_dropa_0_wide.png" width="0" height="0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px;outline-width:0px;" alt="place holder" />
<img src="themes/classic_w_drop/images/menu_dropba_1_grey_wide.png" width="0" height="0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-width:0px;outline-width:0px;" alt="place holder" />
This way, the background images of the menu will be the first images of the website to be cached and will be available immediately, most likely before the user is able to point at the menu bar.
regards
Timo