It looks a bit dated
I wouldn't mix sans-serif with serif either
Why use images for your headers (“Welcome to the CSFRS U.S.A.R. Team Website")? Browsers like Safari and IE7 smooth text out now anyway, and not that you’re probably too concerned about SEO, it would be better as a h1 tag
The scrunched paper background is a really old technique, not a fan.
I don't like the fact the menu if offset into the page. Maybe it’s because it runs over the edge of your margin and has a big gap to the left but it looks like it's a css fault and not meant to be out there.
You’ve got biggish buttons for the menu, but only clicking the text works not the whole button. Have a look on
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/ there's loads of examples of lists that'll let the whole button be clickable.
Tables... ?
I don't like the triple border at the bottom, it just looks messy and doesn’t fit with your other borders
Your header width is fine for 1024, but why does your content stop short? Are you planning a right column? If not, expand and use the space so you can get more content on with less vertical scrolling
Again, an SEO thing, but don’t point home at index.html, point it at / then you’ve only one address for that page
Code:
body bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"
I'm assuming Dreamweaver helped you out with that, but it’s one of the reasons it won’t validate
Code:
body {
background-color:#FFF;
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
in your stylesheet would serve you better
Another thing is you're mixing your styling
Code:
style="background-repeat:repeat-y" background="images/buttons_back.gif"
should be
Code:
style="background-image:url('images/buttons_back.gif');background-repeat:repeat-y"
There's a white gap at the bottom of the page, which is a shame as it throws up an unnecessary scroll bar on each page. Why not put the image as your body background and use divs over the top with background colors over it when not needed?
