Well, this sure died a quiet death.
Anyway, I spent some fiddling around back at the start of this thread, and I noted that I wouldn't share my results until sometime later.
Well, since nobody else is playing along at home, I've decided to post one of my ideas.
freelanceFIRST layout.
That's my rough concept for a common header for the fF pages. I'm also working on developing an identifiable logo that will be integrated into the page layout, somewhere.