how to get that friendly look to my website

[Chooco]

here is my website: www.shawnserver.cjb.net
TechIMO has that nice friendly look to it so i copied some of the basic design such as plain white background and simple black lettering with it setup in 2 columns instead of 3 columns and the links heading at the top but it still looks rather hostile

any suggestions? (btw if you have any ideas for gifs i could make to spruce up the site plz tell me)

[Cody]

You need a column for the index... the site is rather messy IMO.

If you want some design ideas I would be glad to give it a shot.

Cody

BTW: 1,200 post right here

[Cody]

Errr... 1,100 And this one is 1,101

[Chooco]

what do you mean column for index? isn't that horizontal thing good enough?

i fixed the problem of the index at the top all scrunching together by putting it in a table

[Cody]

The top thing is OK... but I think it's a little unorganized.

Cody

[tobu]

OK, here goes, I will try to tell you some secrets

First of all get a clolour scheme, Eg, greys, Reds, blacks, whites, The choose a structure. The structure should involve a menu of some kind such as on techimo. A area to disply things ( eg. writing, images ) White space: make sure you have white space, it doens't really need to be white but thats what we call it. It is just the area where nothign is!

Next get yourself a CSS(cascading style sheet) they make sites look good and can be manipluted very nicly!

Theres more i am just to tired to tell ya, later huh

edit- Oh yeah, never make links to other sites bigger that your site stuff, remeber this is yours that is there, unless they pay you!

[Chooco]

i only link to thoes bigger sites because they pay me in help or i'm just holding up my end of the bargain.
NDC is a nice guy so i put his banner up
TechIMO is where i learn stuff so i put that up
that submit to browser thingy asked that in return for the service it gave me so i make a link to it
tom's hardware is where i get the latest news and guides on hardware so i put that up
outpatient requested that banner add of his so i put it up

how do i made a css file anyway? i posted that before and people just sorta brushed it off

[tobu]

I ran a simple search on Google for "css" and it found this site.

It may help you, i am not sure, my bandwidth is all used and i couldn't veiw the page: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

In that case make a links page!