Review Wanted

[ThFhAtEcRiMe]

Hey all whats up. I would like a review for my website www.hostile-contact.com/dod.htm please tell me what u think no matter how bad it is i want to improve my site so tell me everything and PLEASE i have posted something like this on another forum a month ago and a corporate company stole my design and changed the content. guess what i sued and got much money so i will prosecute anyone who steals my source in any way shape or form. if you save a file to your hd and i find out about it and its from my site guess what im gonna sue.
TY

[weezer YenSid]

Preamble:
I've never taken a design class... this is all opinion.

First Impression:
Initially, it looks great. Looks a lot like some of the classic Winamp skins (that's not a complaint).

Stuff:
You might change initial light grey BG color so that the text is easier to read while the BG image loads (56k here, takes a little time, but isn't at all bad).

Add some CSS "padding" parameters to the menus on the side. The text is right up against the edges, and needs some room to breathe. Alternatively, rewrite the tables to add the padding without CSS. Or use spacer GIFs, whatever.

I hope you were planning on changing "Menu!" to something else. It's fairly obvious (at least I think so) that it's a menu. Either a header graphic/logo, or something that very quickly describes what the site is for.

The main background is subtley interestingly different (the fade of the grid at the top). Nice.

Being Very Very Very Picky:
You might want to adjust the scrollbar color parameters so that it still looks like an arrow even if the page is not scrollable. I think it's one of the "shadow" ones... I never remember and just manually go through each one until it works. (Right now, the very edge of the arrow appears to be cut off, gives it the illusion of four sides.)

The graphics above and below the main content area almost look like scrollbars. I bothered to try them to find out. Maybe keep that in mind as something to avoid in the future. Suggested fix: just add some small decorations onto them so that they aren't just the same gradient pattern all the way across.

Should the jagged graphics cross through the main background too? How does it look if they're only on the content areas (menu and main area)?

Keep continuity with the capitalization of "DOD", "CS", and "THF". In the copyright area, for instance, they're lower-case. Use sentence structure! (sorry... the inner anal-about-grammar dork in me... clan site... not really that important, but it's good to keep in practice if you're designing commercial sites)

I'd fade the right end of the graphic below the menus (not the solid part, but the stylized part) to keep up the continuity with the other top and bottom graphics that use a fade on both sides of the stylized areas.

[ThFhAtEcRiMe]

Thank you alot ill take most of those into accout when i remodel as im right now doing alot of server side scripting but when i get time to change the layout a lil bit ill no what to change thanks alot

[Zero Angel]

Some of your pages have all-caps, THAT GETS REALLY ANNOYING. You might also want to make your table of links stand out a little more, all I can see are the links that go away from your site. Your text is a little hard to read, try making it a bit lighter.

Is it just me, or did you make this webpage with IE's text-size set at smallest? everything looks too bold and fat when IEs text-size is set at normal.

[ThFhAtEcRiMe]

Thanks for the help yah the text was set at small when i made it im not blind and i doubt many of my viewers arent either

ill work on the caps.

right now im putting a lot of scripting into it so i can get it to run the way i want it too. thanks again