The story around this layout is quite twisted. My College roommate who was working as a php programmer came one night home with a design job. The problem was that he didn't really knew very much about photoshop or the direction he wanted to go and I wasn't really that keen on helping because I knew I wouldn't get any financial benefit out of it so for a while I sat and watched how he stressed and failed in getting any progress at all. Then I kind of took over and did this in about ... 1h, discusions included.

After a few days he told me that the design was rejected or stolen and probably someone else will chop it up and build the site only to see him codding the site himself a few weeks later.