SITE REVIEW: Xona.com

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I wouldn't do that because I think it makes the website look childish, but if you mean a body bgcolor than yes...I would definitely change that and make it more vibrant.

About the links...you are actually very limited with color range...but if you change the bgcolor then you can have many different colors.

As for images...It needs a little bit more but not to much...Like to the right of "Latest Articles:" I would add an image.

I read the "Quiet your HD", very interesting approach.

Good luck.

wphilipw, you don't to make bulky table code to tables to round off corners, you can achieve that with CSS.

For its purpose the site is perfectly fine.

RE clutter - there is still LOADS. You can seriously get rid of some by losing all the class="sideMenucell", class="sideMenulink" etc, and the pointless onclick junk.
e.g. to not repeat class="blah" per link:

I'd actually use a proper list for the menu, but that's not important.

You should also put the Javascript into a .js file and include it, that way it doesn't load for every page, and put Google's urchin at the end before </body> not before the end of the table.

Personally I'd lose the tables too, but if you don't know how to control the layout with CSS don't worry about that.

Hmmm... perhaps I just need to create icons for the various sections of my site (articles, web utilities, freeware, quotes, etc.) and then use them in various places and in various sizes throughout the site. That should add some graphical familiarity to many UI interfaces of today and remove the boring feel of the site. What do you think?

That sounds like a very good idea and perhaps implement expanding DIVS with the "+" and "-" images to clean up the links column.

nice site lots of plane html..

There are tons of website using curvy design and are compatible...

Just give it a try

Google ads is not apprpriate

Are ads really that bad? Many sites have Google ads... http://ozzu.com/ , http://digg.com/ , etc... I will always have ads on my site, whether they are Google ads or ads for my own software.

I don't understand what's inappropriate about Google ads either...?!?

Tons of useful information, clean design..

Thank you!

I don't see any use in it. But thats me

Check your errors matt. You have 33 errors at you site. Try to fix it also. To check it please click the link below:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxona.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

I think the site is too plain. Too white. Kind of boring to browse. Even though you want it clean and fast, a bit more wont hurt much.

You try to add up some colors to your site. A color are related to what you are trying emphasize.