A lot of teams, including myself, base their menus (among other things) off of code from dynamic drive. The have large libraries for many types of movement html pieces. We get the base for out menus and our picture gallery display from there. I recommend exploring what they have and deciding what you like and want to incorporate. Then, download the code and play around with the parameters to customize.
Here is a direct link to their menu section -
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/index.html
I am team 1912's webmaster. Besides to two aforementioned pieces, I do all of the website in raw html and css, all by hand.