'chelle - I really like the clean, understated look so far. A lot of good points (and some I think fall under personal taste) so I won't add to those. I will give you a piece of advice that I wish I had received when I first coded my site. I know it's tempting to ask "how's this look?" all the way through constructing the site, but I'd advise against it. There are so many opinions and so many tastes that you'll find yourself chasing your tail and feeling a bit frustrated. IMO, the design should suit you. Do what you feel looks good and puts forth the look and feeling you want to convey. Once it's all together, then open it up for critique. Unless you get a high percentage of people disliking a particular styling point, I'd stick with concentrating on complaints and bugs found in the user/navigation interface. And one final thing, unless you want to spend lots time re-writing sections of your site, try to stay as basic as you can in your code. I went completely away from cutting edge coding. I thought I'd be pretty safe sticking with DHTML and java. Even with these "standards" I have found myself having to tweak and re-code sections a dozen times or so because of the incompatiabilites between browsers (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc.) and platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.). The more technology you put between your site and the user, the more work you are going to have keeping the site usable by as many people as possible. -=>Donald