MattShepherd - You're right. You can make a very spiffy site using just HTML and CSS. As mentioned elsewhere, anyone in need of CSS inspiration ought to pay a visit to CSS Zen Garden, a series of very impressive examples of what can be done with a little imagination (and a lot of mark up).
As for specific ideas, here goes:
First, sort out the menu page - it's not really doing anything at the moment other than adding another click for the user, and the menu's on every page anyway. I appreciate that you do a number of things and aren't sure what your visitor will want to see, but a static menu isn't the way to go. Maybe make it an intro page - add some text about yourself, maybe some samples of your art, etc.
Make your blog look something like the rest of your site - either by integrating it into the site (using WordPress, for example) or just tinkering with the settings.
I appreciate that you're probably going for a clean, minimalist look, but you can still gussy it up some and keep the same feeling. How about sitting everything in a nice plain container on a slightly more interesting background, rather than just having all that empty space?
Also, I'd recommend that you style your fonts - Times New Roman with blue links ain't exactly easy on the eyes. |
