SITE REVIEW: Maxedge Web Designs

I've been drawing designs and tossing them out and repeating but now, I THINK I'VE FOUND IT! What do you guys think? Color scheme, menu design, functionality, etc? Especially important: Is it original?

MaxedgeDev

Unfortunately, the tables aren't lining up corrctly on my browser. I do have a smaller screen size then most people. (the part w/ Past MaxEdge News | Articles | Tutorials | Personal News/Rants goes out to far and so does the bottom where picture rightgrad.gif is.
I like the logo and the color scheme is good. Nice, easy to use menu.

Are we supposed to be reviewing...
http://www.maxedge.net/maxedgedev.php

or
http://www.maxedge.net
because the latter one looks pretty finished and all the links on the menu go there.

MaxedgeDev because that's the new template that I've come up with for Maxedge. The latter one is too dull. And too much lack of color. It was a slap-on job. I have a bad habit of writing bad code the first time and having to revise it again later. So if at all possible, could you view it in any browser other than IE? Opera, Mozilla, Firebird?

er...scratch mozilla...

looks ok in Firebird

Could you elaborate? Especially in my questions?

Ok, cleaned up the code and made everything work in every browser other than Netscape 4.x Can I have your critique now?

At the left there is an unneeded blank altough i have a 1024&768 res. , i am hardened to read your main page conntent, you must think to fit your site to the center without the left blank.
Allover then your site design is orginal and good.

It looks ok except for the fact that the top black navigation bar is hanging way the heck to the right even on my browser. I have to scroll way to the right to view the [ News | Forums | Art | Techy | Blogs ] links.

You could streamline your css by turning border: 1px solid #000000; into border:1px solid #000; Shorthand.

You could also further streamline things like this:

Yours:

Mine:

Thus using cascading to it's potential.

I have no idea why people are seeing it that way?!!! Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? This is what I see. EDIT; (This is in IE6 Windows version)

http://www.maxedge.net/resources/imglink/look.gif

looks great to me, no errors with anything over lapping no gaps... nothing.. i use ie 6 also :-S on win 2k pro w00t w00t.. anyways..
nice layout, clean how i like it
nice colors, i love blue.. light blue on white is great.. yummoh
it seems to be original, ive surfed through the web seen a few webby's somewhat like it but not exactly
and it functions well menu is placed where someone might not see it right off the bat but still they will get it
and its in php.. how old are you? 14? wow.. lols at 14 all i knew was good ole html
i give it a 8/10 for lack of content :-p very nice though!

Thank you. It's finally good to hear some good comments. Content is lacking I know but that's because I'm crunching in mySQL so content is better managed and more updated.

fantastic view... excelent site.

AWESOME JOB.........you really do got it......color schemes are right on, great buttons, colorful......... good info, in full detail. Overall its an awesome job.......keep up the good work.