While I'm trucking along on the HTML/CSS process (making mockups all day in illustrator, what what!), this link popped up in my twitter feed from Hacker News.
A Farewell to CSS3 Gradients covers the hate in working with gradients, the messy evolution of CSS, and a quick and dirty introduction to SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics. I don't think it's end all solution (with the speed of the internet these days, we might as well just save gradients as pngs), but certainly a suggestible alternative.
Little more work to do tonight, maybe some JavaScript fun if I can get around to it. I promised myself I'd fix a JQuery bug by tonight or tomorrow morning.