Individually place menu items How can I position each menu item individually in Drupal 7?
I've created a quick visualisation how I want it to look like:



The problem is that I still want to have hover effects and highlight the page I'm currently on.
The menu don't need to be dynamic because the menu items won't change.

Any Ideas?
Try theme_links

Like 

&lt;?php      
print theme('links', array('links' =&gt; menu_navigation_links('menu-site-menu'),
'attributes' =&gt; array('class'=&gt; array('links', 'site-menu')) ));
?&gt;