diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/AdminMenu.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/AdminMenu.cs
index b886e51fc..fcdf1623d 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/AdminMenu.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/AdminMenu.cs
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ namespace Orchard.Core.Dashboard {
         public string MenuName { get { return "admin"; } }
 
         public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) {
-            builder.Add(T("Dashboard"), "-5",
-                        menu => menu.Add(T("Orchard"), "-5", item => item.Action("Index", "Admin", new { area = "Dashboard" })
+            builder.AddImageSet("dashboard.menu")
+                .Add(T("Dashboard"), "-5",
+                    menu => menu.Add(T("Orchard"), "-5",
+                        item => item
+                            .Action("Index", "Admin", new { area = "Dashboard" })
                             .Permission(StandardPermissions.AccessAdminPanel)));
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.admin.css b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.admin.css
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e7eed028..000000000
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.admin.css
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#menu .menu-admin .section-dashboard h3 a {
-background-image:url(images/menu-dashboard.png);
-background-position:0 5px;
-}
-#menu .menu-admin .section-dashboard h3 a:hover {
-background-position:0 -16px;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.menu.css b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.menu.css
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a01b7e187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Dashboard/styles/dashboard.menu.css
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+.navicon-dashboard {
+background-image:url(images/dashboard.menu.png) !important;
+background-position:0 2px !important;
+}
+.navicon-dashboard:hover {
+background-position:0 -30px !important;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Navigation/AdminMenu.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Navigation/AdminMenu.cs
index 37fd05e56..6ea72c455 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Navigation/AdminMenu.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Navigation/AdminMenu.cs
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ namespace Orchard.Core.Navigation {
         public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) {
             //todo: - add new menu? and list menus? ...and remove hard-coded menu name here
             builder.Add(T("Navigation"), "8",
-                menu => menu.Add(T("Main Menu"), "0", item => item.Action("Index", "Admin", new { area = "Navigation" })
+                menu => menu
+                    .Add(T("Main Menu"), "0", item => item.Action("Index", "Admin", new { area = "Navigation" })
                     .Permission(Permissions.ManageMainMenu)));
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Orchard.Core.csproj b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Orchard.Core.csproj
index fce0058b5..4f62a46a5 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Orchard.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Core/Orchard.Core.csproj
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@
     <Content Include="Contents\Views\Admin\Create.cshtml" />
     <Content Include="Contents\Views\Admin\Edit.cshtml" />
     <Content Include="Contents\Views\Admin\List.cshtml" />
+    <Content Include="Dashboard\styles\dashboard.menu.css" />
+    <Content Include="Dashboard\styles\images\dashboard.menu.png" />
     <Content Include="Feeds\Views\Feed.cshtml" />
     <Content Include="Contents\Views\Parts.Contents.Publish.cshtml" />
     <Content Include="Contents\Views\Parts.Contents.Publish.SummaryAdmin.cshtml" />
@@ -378,6 +380,9 @@
   <ItemGroup>
     <Content Include="Shapes\Views\LocalMenuItem.cshtml" />
   </ItemGroup>
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Content Include="Dashboard\styles\Web.config" />
+  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
   <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/AdminMenu.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/AdminMenu.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a867ffde1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/AdminMenu.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+using Orchard.Localization;
+using Orchard.UI.Navigation;
+
+namespace Orchard.Core.Dashboard {
+    public class AdminMenu : INavigationProvider {
+        public Localizer T { get; set; }
+        public string MenuName { get { return "admin"; } }
+
+        public void GetNavigation(NavigationBuilder builder) {
+            builder.AddImageSet("page.menu");
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Orchard.Pages.csproj b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Orchard.Pages.csproj
index 1342b5a4c..951a8a2ff 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Orchard.Pages.csproj
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Orchard.Pages.csproj
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     <Reference Include="System.Web" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
+    <Compile Include="AdminMenu.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Migrations.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
@@ -54,8 +55,13 @@
     </ProjectReference>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
+    <Content Include="Styles\page.menu.css" />
+    <Content Include="Styles\images\page.menu.png" />
     <Content Include="web.config" />
   </ItemGroup>
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <Content Include="Styles\Web.config" />
+  </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" />
   <ProjectExtensions>
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/Web.config b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/Web.config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0dc62ece6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/Web.config
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+  <appSettings>
+    <add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
+  </appSettings>
+  <system.web>
+    <httpHandlers>
+      <!-- iis6 - for any request in this location, return via managed static file handler -->
+      <add path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
+    </httpHandlers>
+  </system.web>
+  <system.webServer>
+    <handlers accessPolicy="Script,Read">
+      <!--
+      iis7 - for any request to a file exists on disk, return it via native http module.
+      accessPolicy 'Script' is to allow for a managed 404 page.
+      -->
+      <add name="StaticFile" path="*" verb="*" modules="StaticFileModule" preCondition="integratedMode" resourceType="File" requireAccess="Read" />
+    </handlers>
+  </system.webServer>
+</configuration>
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/page.menu.css b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/page.menu.css
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a01b7e187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Pages/Styles/page.menu.css
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+.navicon-dashboard {
+background-image:url(images/dashboard.menu.png) !important;
+background-position:0 2px !important;
+}
+.navicon-dashboard:hover {
+background-position:0 -30px !important;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Styles/site.css b/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Styles/site.css
index eddb95168..f26bad9c3 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Styles/site.css
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Styles/site.css
@@ -343,19 +343,20 @@ form.link button:hover {
     padding:0 0 0 10px;
 }
 #menu .menu-admin li h3 a {
-    background:url(images/menu-all.png) no-repeat 0 5px;
+    background:url(images/menu-all.png) no-repeat 0 4px;
     padding:0 0 0 16px;
 }
 #menu .menu-admin li h3 a:hover {
+    background-position:0 -17px;
     color:#fff;
 }
-/* todo: (heskew) pull out into the appropriate modules somehow when this is baked */
+/* todo: (heskew) pull out into the appropriate modules somehow when this is baked * /
 #menu .menu-admin .section-dashboard h3 a { background-position:0 -36px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-dashboard h3 a:hover { background-position:0 -56px; }
-/* todo: need to get the "New" sub items */
+/* todo: need to get the "New" sub items * /
 #menu .menu-admin .section-content h3 a { background-position:0 -247px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-content h3 a:hover { background-position:0 -268px; }
-/* todo: need an icon for "Blogs" */
+/* todo: need an icon for "Blogs" * /
 #menu .menu-admin .section-comments h3 a { background-position:0 -539px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-comments h3 a:hover { background-position:0 -559px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-lists h3 a { background-position:0 -289px; }
@@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ form.link button:hover {
 #menu .menu-admin .section-themes h3 a:hover { background-position:0 -518px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-users h3 a { background-position:0 -619px; }
 #menu .menu-admin .section-users h3 a:hover { background-position:0 -640px; }
-
+*/
 #menu .menu-admin li h3 a, #menu .menu-admin li h3 span {
     line-height:16px;
     color:#aec3ce;
diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Views/Menu.cshtml b/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Views/Menu.cshtml
index 0394a2ef6..6f0474064 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Views/Menu.cshtml
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Themes/TheAdmin/Views/Menu.cshtml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     Script.Include("admin.js");
     IEnumerable<dynamic> firstLevelMenuItems = Model;
 
+    foreach (var imageSet in Model.ImageSets) {
+        RegisterImageSet(imageSet, Model.MenuName /* style */, 16 /* bounding box */);
+    }
+
     Model.Attributes.Add("role", "navigation");
     var tag = Tag(Model, "ul");
 }
@@ -14,11 +18,28 @@
 
         string sectionHeaderText = firstLevelMenuItem.Text;
         var firstOfTheSecond = secondLevelMenuItems.FirstOrDefault();
-        var sectionHeaderMarkup = firstLevelMenuItem.RouteValues != null || HasText(firstLevelMenuItem.Url)
-            ? Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstLevelMenuItem.Href)
-            : firstOfTheSecond != null && firstLevelMenuItem.LinkToFirstChild
-                ? Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstOfTheSecond.Href)
-                : new HtmlString(string.Format("<span>{0}</span>", Html.Encode(sectionHeaderText)));
+
+        var imageClassName = "navicon-" + sectionHeaderText.TextHint.HtmlClassify();
+        var imageId = HasText(firstLevelMenuItem.ImageId)
+            ? "navicon-" + firstLevelMenuItem.ImageId
+            : null;
+
+        IHtmlString sectionHeaderMarkup;
+        if (firstLevelMenuItem.RouteValues != null || HasText(firstLevelMenuItem.Url)) {
+            sectionHeaderMarkup = HasText(imageId)
+                ? Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstLevelMenuItem.Href, new { @class = imageClassName, id = imageId })
+                : Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstLevelMenuItem.Href, new { @class = imageClassName });
+        }
+        else if (firstOfTheSecond != null && firstLevelMenuItem.LinkToFirstChild && (firstOfTheSecond.RouteValues != null || HasText(firstOfTheSecond.Url))) {
+            sectionHeaderMarkup = HasText(imageId)
+                ? Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstOfTheSecond.Href, new { @class = imageClassName, id = imageId })
+                : Html.Link(sectionHeaderText, (string)firstOfTheSecond.Href, new { @class = imageClassName });
+        }
+        else {
+            sectionHeaderMarkup = HasText(imageId)
+                ? new HtmlString(string.Format(@"<span class=""{1}"" id=""{2}"">{0}</span>", Html.Encode(sectionHeaderText), Html.Encode(imageClassName), Html.Encode(imageId)))
+                : new HtmlString(string.Format(@"<span class=""{1}"">{0}</span>", Html.Encode(sectionHeaderText), Html.Encode(imageClassName)));
+        }
 
         if (firstLevelMenuItem == firstLevelMenuItems.First()) {
             firstLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("first");
@@ -26,12 +47,11 @@
         if (firstLevelMenuItem == firstLevelMenuItems.Last()) {
             firstLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("last");
         }
-
         if (firstLevelMenuItem.Selected) {
             firstLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("selected");
         }
 
-        firstLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("section-" + sectionHeaderText.HtmlClassify());
+        firstLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("section-" + sectionHeaderText.TextHint.HtmlClassify());
         var firstLevelTag = Tag(firstLevelMenuItem, "li");
         @firstLevelTag.StartElement
             <h3>@sectionHeaderMarkup</h3>
@@ -39,7 +59,7 @@
                 <ul class="menuItems">
                 @foreach (var secondLevelMenuItem in secondLevelMenuItems.Where(menuItem => !menuItem.LocalNav)) {
                     if (secondLevelMenuItem.Selected) {
-                        secondLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("selected");
+                        secondLevelMenuItem.Classes.Add("selected"); 
                     }
                     var secondLevelTag = Tag(secondLevelMenuItem, "li");
                     @secondLevelTag.StartElement
diff --git a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/Razor/WebViewPage.cs b/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/Razor/WebViewPage.cs
index a3ad04f2a..e64da11f1 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/Razor/WebViewPage.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/Razor/WebViewPage.cs
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ namespace Orchard.Mvc.ViewEngines.Razor {
             }
         }
 
+        public void RegisterImageSet(string imageSet, string style = "", int size = 16) {
+            Style.Include(imageSet + ".css");
+        }
+
         public virtual void RegisterLink(LinkEntry link) {
             Html.Resolve<IResourceManager>().RegisterLink(link);
         }
diff --git a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuFilter.cs b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuFilter.cs
index 21af99d24..a579ca3dc 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuFilter.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuFilter.cs
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             return shapeFactory.MenuItem()
                 .Text(menuItem.Text)
                 .Href(menuItem.Href)
+                .Id(menuItem.Id)
                 .LinkToFirstChild(menuItem.LinkToFirstChild)
                 .LocalNav(menuItem.LocalNav)
                 .Selected(menuItem.Selected)
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             return shapeFactory.LocalMenuItem()
                 .Text(menuItem.Text)
                 .Href(menuItem.Href)
+                .Id(menuItem.Id)
                 .LinkToFirstChild(menuItem.LinkToFirstChild)
                 .LocalNav(menuItem.LocalNav)
                 .Selected(menuItem.Selected)
diff --git a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuItem.cs b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuItem.cs
index 23bc7df3b..96dc287ed 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuItem.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/MenuItem.cs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
         public bool LinkToFirstChild { get; set; }
         public bool LocalNav { get; set; }
         public bool Selected { get; set; }
+        public string Id { get; set; }
         public RouteValueDictionary RouteValues { get; set; }
         public IEnumerable<MenuItem> Items { get; set; }
         public IEnumerable<Permission> Permissions { get; set; }
diff --git a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationBuilder.cs b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationBuilder.cs
index 8fbb45108..23ca8fe79 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationBuilder.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ using Orchard.Localization;
 
 namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
     public class NavigationBuilder {
+        private readonly IList<string> _imageSets = new List<string>();
         IEnumerable<MenuItem> Contained { get; set; }
 
         public NavigationBuilder Add(LocalizedString caption, string position, Action<NavigationItemBuilder> itemBuilder) {
@@ -30,8 +31,16 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             return Add(caption, null, x => { });
         }
 
+        public NavigationBuilder AddImageSet(string imageSet) {
+            _imageSets.Add(imageSet);
+            return this;
+        }
+
         public IEnumerable<MenuItem> Build() {
             return (Contained ?? Enumerable.Empty<MenuItem>()).ToList();
         }
+        public IEnumerable<string> BuildImageSets() {
+            return _imageSets.Distinct();
+        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationItemBuilder.cs b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationItemBuilder.cs
index 2fadf67f9..de75873c8 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationItemBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationItemBuilder.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             return this;
         }
 
+        public NavigationItemBuilder Id(string id) {
+            _item.Id = id;
+            return this;
+        }
+
         public NavigationItemBuilder LinkToFirstChild(bool value) {
             _item.LinkToFirstChild = value;
             return this;
diff --git a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationManager.cs b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationManager.cs
index fe5ad66ae..98d5f8609 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationManager.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/UI/Navigation/NavigationManager.cs
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             return FinishMenu(Crop(Reduce(Merge(sources))).ToArray());
         }
 
+        public IEnumerable<string> BuildImageSets(string menuName) {
+            return GetImageSets(menuName).SelectMany(imageSets => imageSets.Distinct()).Distinct();
+        }
+
         private IEnumerable<MenuItem> FinishMenu(IEnumerable<MenuItem> menuItems) {
             foreach (var menuItem in menuItems) {
                 menuItem.Href = GetUrl(menuItem.Url, menuItem.RouteValues);
@@ -71,6 +75,7 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
                         LocalNav = item.LocalNav,
                         Text = item.Text,
                         Url = item.Url,
+                        Id = item.Id,
                         LinkToFirstChild = item.LinkToFirstChild,
                         Href = item.Href
                     };
@@ -88,6 +93,16 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
             }
         }
 
+        private IEnumerable<IEnumerable<string>> GetImageSets(string menuName) {
+            foreach (var provider in _providers) {
+                if (provider.MenuName == menuName) {
+                    var builder = new NavigationBuilder();
+                    provider.GetNavigation(builder);
+                    yield return builder.BuildImageSets();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         private static IEnumerable<MenuItem> Merge(IEnumerable<IEnumerable<MenuItem>> sources) {
             var comparer = new MenuItemComparer();
             var orderer = new FlatPositionComparer();
@@ -105,8 +120,10 @@ namespace Orchard.UI.Navigation {
                 Text = items.First().Text,
                 Url = items.First().Url,
                 Href = items.First().Href,
+                Id = items.First().Id,
                 LinkToFirstChild = items.First().LinkToFirstChild,
                 RouteValues = items.First().RouteValues,
+                LocalNav = items.Any(x => x.LocalNav),
                 Items = Merge(items.Select(x => x.Items)).ToArray(),
                 Position = SelectBestPositionValue(items.Select(x => x.Position)),
                 Permissions = items.SelectMany(x => x.Permissions)