codice:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Documento senza titolo</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#barrapulsanti {
	clear: both;
	width: 800px;
	height: 68px;
	background: #00F;
	margin: 0 auto;
}
ul {
	list-style: none;
	width: 500px;
	margin: 0 auto;
}
ul li {
	background: #F00;
	color: #FFF;
	width: 120px;
	height: 68px;
	float: left;
	margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}
ul li a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	height: 68px;
}
ul li a:hover {
	display: block;
	background: #FF0;
	color: #F00;
	text-decoration: none;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="barrapulsanti">
<ul>[*]Testo[*]Testo[*]Testo[*]Testo[/list]
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Cambia lo sfondo e il clore del testo come vuoi tu