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I have a problem. I don't use IE to surf the web, and its some built in fear in me that when i see a website that doesn't look "right2 its because they've hacked code for it to work in IE and i'm getting some malformed version of it.

Well unfortunatly for your site that isn't the case. I think you need to do some work, your banners could do with being moved over to the right a little so they are not sat atop your left hand "border"
Can you do something with the upper right nav box so it actually looks and acts like a nav bar? maybe just add a mouse over and bring it closer to the rest of the content.
It may be me being picky but the faded brown links look like "visited" links to me rather than current links. I always feel links should be vibrant and eyecatching until the person has clicked on them, then feel free to fade them back into the text.
Also why the need for the text links at the bottom of the page? your (leftside) nav bar works and isn't a complex script that may fail so why the redunduncy? get rid of them and it'll tidy up your page some more.

Hope some of this helps.

DJ

Needs a bit of work. First and foremost (and I cant stress this enough) stay away from fixed width. Let the browser decide the width of your pages by using percentage. If I am on lets say webtv and my browsers max width is only 544 pixels and you page is set up the standard 800 pixel width and you have 2 elements side by side and assign a width of 400 pixels to both, its not gonna look good on the webtv browser. Not to mention any other browser that may be set to a different width. It would be better to set those to elements to 50%.

I wouldn't say "stay away from fixed width" is a rule that everyone should follow. You need to know your audience (or assume you know your audience).
I personally used semi-fixed width (meaning i have everything set at a min and a max width) so the site will still behave how i want it to look. I have the min set for 800*600 peeps and the max for 1024-768 peeps. Now any sizes out side of those will get either a scrollbar or "white" space. An option i prefer to either my layout breaking due to too small a screen res or the text becoming unreadable for too large a screen res.
Like I said, work towards your market. if you know a lot of people use webtv to surf your site your gonna have to work towards it. if not don't worry about it and work towards your main customer base.

DJ

Thanks for the advice.

Is there a way in frontpage to automaticly fix the widths of all the tables at the same time. Instead of fixing each one seperately?

Hi there,

I like the fact the navigation is simple and there is lots of interesting content.

Negatively, I find that tickertapes take the eyes focus of the real issues of a website.

Hope this helps

(Using Win XP Pro, Mozilla 1.7, cable connection.)

The content of the site is useful, and navigation is simple, and that's very important!

I would remove "Now compatible with Mozilla Browser" - doesn't sound very professional...

"Browse the web from our site by using the search field below” doesn't sound very good either. Just make a small Google search field somewhere on the side.

I would also move everything UP by losing scrolling text and trimming some fat from the logo and buttons on the right.