What is this mess?

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First of all, more pictures will add bulk to your pages and will add to the amount of time that it takes for them to load. If you keep it all or mostly text, then good for you. That's smart web design. Pretty is nice for broadband users only. Text will offer a nice website to all network speeds. (Look at Google, which is the most popular search engine in the world.) For instance, your background image is 104 KB. Dial-up users will see this page at 56 kbps, which is about 7 KB per second at a maximum speed. At 7 KB per second, the background image alone would take around 14 sec to load and not even a second more for the rest of the page to load. You should design your page to load in under 10 seconds.

Second, do not use a table structure. This is being phased out and should not be used at all. It's easier to use a table structure, but you should actually be using CSS. Read up on positioning and formatting with Cascading Style Sheets.

Third, test your pages in both FireFox and Internet Explorer. The majority of users surf the net with Internet Explorer, but FireFox is generally used by the IT professionals. Aside from that, FireFox follows the standards that have been set, whereas Internet Explorer makes its own rules. With that said, however, Microsoft is moving Internet Explorer more toward the standards, so your pages will be more likely to work with Internet Explorer 8, if you code them to look proper in FireFox.