one trick to make your site look a little more professional is to reduce the size of everything.
the logo and the buttons are very large and would do you more justice being half the size they are now.
spend some time looking at pages that suck instead of thinking about good page design firstly.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
good start tho, i would never knock you for having a go.
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