Action Pants

So I am working on a project that involves making a Sharepoint WebPart. I have the functionality down but it looks like crap. Now I could bug someone to help me make it look pretty, but I think I am going to bite the bullet and figure out this whole CSS thing. I keep doing projects that work, but look horrible and it's got to stop. On a side note Bamboo Solutions makes really good stuff from what i can tell. I had to find a way to get data from a SQL Database into sharepoint and they have from what can tell the only solution to do this. Access 2007 has a feature built into but I found it too be very memory intensive with large sets of data. I don't normally push a product unless I like it, so yea if you need to get data into sharepoint, they would be the way to go.