First thing I always do is streamline the number of includes in skin1/customer/home.tpl
The rectangle_top.tpl, meta.tpl, head.tpl, bottom.tpl, etc., I pull the code from those files and put them right into the home.tpl
This way your changes won't affect the admin section, and you can make the file a lot cleaner. There's lots of junk that you can remove.
Then implement the design into home.tpl, edit your skin1.css file, edit your menu.tpl and dialog.tpl files, and go from there.
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