Exercise in web design

In the meantime, you need to put New Zeland on the opening page and other places where it has addresses, because the site will be seen around the world. Next kill the running strip - big distractor.

Tom J

I agree with Tom. Lose the red banner right away. It's a pointless gimmick. And make sure no sounds or music ever play without the express permission of the visitor. Nothing automatic.

I agree with the others. Also, with Firefox, the Garden Plans page looks OK but the other two have a horizontal line going through the first line of text under the 3 links.

You should test your site on:

Firefox Safari Opera Netscape

as well as Explorer.

These are free and I believe they are all multi platform except Explorer. Explorer abandoned other platforms other than Windows about 5 years ago.

I agree with Tom and Joe. And garden sites should NEVER have sounds or music (I find it VERY annoying on ANY site). To me the best sites are the "simple" ones. Lots of pictures and no gimmicks.

Besides what others have noted, if you are just beginning to do page design it would be an excellent time to:

1. start using CSS to separate the style elements from the content in every page you do -- it makes later maintenance much less painful and after a day or so of learning it makes even the original composition easier.
2. test every page for compliance to all pertinent standards -- makes pages less dependent upon the browser used to view them.
3. always pay attention to appearances when switching pages however you style them. Having "fixed" elements jumping about even a little is jarring and detracts from the content.

But keep at it. Nothing succeeds like steady effort.

The W3C validator at reports 34 HTML errors. The page appears designed for Internet Explorer, but 35%-40% of those viewing the Web use a non-Micro$oft browser. Thus, you should fix the errors to ensure that other browsers will indeed display what you want people to see.