Thoughts on site?

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Just put up my first website a few hours ago, am wondering what professional people think of the design, layout etc. The site is for a donation drive.. but I feel I made it look semi-nice. It's in CSS: www.sendmetojapan.com


All comments, criticisms are appreciated.

 

[Anarchonixx]

It may use CSS, but the layout is still in tables . But that doesn't really matter, it still works. My opinion is it gets the job done, even if there are a couple of things I personally don't like about it.

A couple of the graphics are a bit artifacty, and some (1 or 2 of them) can be replaced by text instead. Also, it's dark overall; may need a bit more contrast. The background in the content and the background around it, and the borders around the tables are all a similar color.

EDIT: Also, why do you include the URL in the title of the page? That's what the address bar is for!~

 

[doh]

Try some padding in the content area.
Also try making this valid HTML.
There is also something not quite right with the text-over-images. It almost seems to distract from the image itself! I would try and play around with some sort of flower arrangement with the text - perhaps a mouseover image or something clever like that.

The main things I would focus on was the padding in the main cell, valid HTML, and not using tables for non-tabular data.