Blog style portfolio question

Ive been trying to re design my portfolio site, recently Ive seen alot of sites which just use one long page that displays all the portfolio peices in a blog style entry system. This would be cake in HTML but I want to be able to customize fonts and scroll bar. A movie clip of this height would be impossible to work with in flash so I’d like to have it all dynamicaly loaded via xml.

Something like the kirupa xml gallery but no next buttons and everything stacked.

Heres a couple links to clarify what im looking for
http://www.christopherallen.ca/ - work section, of course this is html just a general idea of the concept im shooting for.

Any help with this would be much appreciated Ive been on the hunt for a tutorial for something like this for a solid 8 hours.