HTML5 site template

I am an SEO engineer responsible for many web sites and one of my clients wishes to build a new web site. This means I need to obtain a completely new site template created in HTML5 since Flash is dead. I asked the client to outline in a drawing the kind of site links etc. he requires and he produced the drawing at [login to view URL] all the link boxes on the extreme left must exist in some form in the new page and the link boxes across the top of the page will only exist in the index page and similar landing pages only. I would like to see a bright page with good contrasts and I would like to see something clever done in place of the flash we used in earlier times. I am very open to ideas here and would like the animation to run just once on any page. Also I would like an area on the page where text links can be shown which connect the pages and allow external links. We will acquire any pictures you require from [login to view URL] or other organization.