[HFWang]

Honestly, I think the animation would be distracting... Maybe its just me, but I'd have severe difficulties with just reading the content.

Animation is nice on... yes, animations. But when I'm trying to read all it does is kill my attention span.

I believe you can make the HR be colored red through CSS, but it requires multiple properties (I think IE/Opera/Gecko each have seperate properties that determine color, such as color, background and i THINK border...)

Hope you aren't even considering using tables for this layout. :-P

PS: great site design.