ambergreen.net (suggestions/improvements?)

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Yep sure thing. Im guilty of not reading the policy eek. I will endevour to write some useful reports on other peoples sites. Thanks for informing me.

Thanks for doing such good reviews, Greg!

This is a really cute site. I like the concept a lot and it's a nice unusual name for a design company. I do think that the layout could use some work. First of all, I'm getting quite a bit of horizontal scrolling in a window somwhere around 900 pixels wide. That should fit at 800 x 600. I would move the right column into the main body area. There's some duplicate information there anyway.

The other problem with having a three column layout is that the other junk on the front page is overshadowing your beautiful navigation menu. It's so nice and yet the attention is drawn elsewhere. I woudl also make the fonts a little bigger and darker there. Actually, all your fonts need to be larger. Do I need to go into my rant about tiny font sizes?

When I navigate to another page I get a radically different design that I don't really like that much. The green bar is alittle too shocking, and it's detracting from the ultra-clean look. Why not try fading that out into a softer green that won't take away too much. There are a lot of things not lining up in Opera. The green line in the headings doesn't match the bakcground, and weird things are happening with other things. In some cases I'm seeing white links on a white background.

The subnavigation also needs some work. Those are too plain text-ish toi look like navigation.

it seems to me that you put that green bar there to hold the sub-navigation. There would be better ways of doing that. Some of them only have a few items so they could be simply listed at the top of the page. The client list could just be held by the main body as you have started to do already. Go to multiple pages if necessary.

Grammar needs work:

Quote: It may seem simple but we charge according to the service given. There's a place for every budget, whether large or small. Every company's aims (say needs here) will be different. A new business might want a basic web presence to direct would-be customers and clients to more information (words deleted in this sentence). In this instance, we can setup a simple HTML web page or a more graphical user interface. A large established business might want to create an online shop. We can provide e-commerce, news driven sites and/or search engine optimization that will target more traffic to your site

Write properly and it'll be eaiser for people to understand what you're saying and respect your organization.

On the contact us page, it says "email greg". So what is it, are you just Greg, or are you an invisible group of some sort? I think it's important for people to know exactly who they're dealing with. If you are only one person, say so, don't pretend to be a larger group. Either way, who "greg" is needs to be made clear.

Overall this is a really cute concept and I like it a lot. I don't like what you've done with the interior pages though.

Thanks Megan, appreciate the critique. Im looking at all the things you mentioned, some of much I had in mind that i wasnt completely satisfied with in the first i.e subnavigation and the 3 colum layout. I'll be working to sort something out thats a bit clearer and neater with regards navigation.

When you say move the 3rd colum into the main body area, do you mean move it so it fits into 800x600 or do you mean move the three 'boxed info' into 3 horizontal boxed info's above the main text? Thanks

Nice splash page; reminiscent of these guys: clt.ca

The Go button doesn't go, though, on my machine (IE5, OSX 10.3.3).

modern design (i think)

It's a nice opening page, but where does the go button go?

I like it, clean and simple the way things should be.
Everyone has already told you that the go button doesn't work so Ii won't say anything about that, but the business link on some pages don't work either, on the pages it does work on there is no business page to go to.
I'd also get rid of the "Home" button as there is no reason for me to go back to the splash page, I mean its nice bu i have already seen it.
Maybe keep the same design for the contact page.
When the capabilities page loads the menu jumps right a little.