Help me select components for a site

Greetings.

I have decided to go the PHPFusion way, where others have selected Drupal.

http://www.moderat.se/
That is the National site of my political party.
http://www.moderat.se/skane
That is the site of my Regional Party organisation.

http://www.eslovsmoderaterna.se/phpfu...n/home.php
That is my Local Party site, under construction.

If you reduce the URL you will see the original WordPress site that I have skipped.

Needless to say I would like to find these similar items to be implemented in the PHPFusion site I am building:
- The menu ( I tried Smokemans CSS deluxe thingie but it does werd things to the header)
- The overall layout

Now, I am perfectly willing to build the site differently than those linked, but I think some key elements should be recognizeable as common or similar to the other sites.

Please notice that I am not asking for help in building or coding the site, I am looking for input on how to achieve a specific "look". If you will this could be sort of turned in to a thread that deals with "how do I make PHPFusion look like this or that nice site I saw built in another CMS".

All input appreciated. ;)