Any ideas for good site layout?

[Grim]

Is the site going to be updated frequently? Or is it going to be a bit more static, with links to the contents instead?

If it's the former, I'd suggest a blog-like layout, much like these:

http://www.revolutiontwo.com/demo/elements.html (good for text + images)
http://5thirtyone.com/ (good for plain text)

If it's the latter, these come to mind as good launchpads:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://www.opendns.com/