W3Daryl

I'd personally change a pile of things. First that embedded CSS is terrible! It looks to be generated by software and instead of using common styles every textarea / input has its own class (massive waste of bandwidth and load time). Secondly tables are NOT for design. Thirdly the load time is terrible. I would start by rectifying you banner, make it one background image for an unordered list, then make each list item the width of the button and putting the text over top. This will give you anchor text to your pages, and drastically reduce load time. And fourly CSS should always be in a separate files unless your generating it dynamically, ie random banner where your overriding a banner in the CSS file. Cheers, and I did go light on you

If your worried about load times definitely install the Web Developer extension for Firefox, as in the Tools Menu you can select to View Speed Report, which will give you a detailed breakdown of you website. As for switching that header image from a JPG to a GIF, I'd definitely go back for that car in your header, as it looks terrible with only 256 colours. I'd also look at fixing your header it definitely breaks your box model, but if its still in development thats fine.

When it comes to Quality of the photo megapixels mean next to nothing provided the camera is around 6+ megapixels. Keep in mind the higher the megapixels the more pixels that have to be detected by the sensor. If you have a sensor that is 1cm x 1cm (not realistic) thats 6 megapixels, and one that is 10 megapixels the 10 megapixel sensor is more likely to have noise as electrons are more likely to jump around on the sensor. An instance of this is the Canon Rebel XT vs XTi, with just a jump from 8 to 10.1 megapixels it has been repoted that the XTi is inferior in low light instances. If your looking for a high quality camera at a great price with excellent colours / detail take a look at the Pentax K100D (NOT K110D!!). Cheers.

If you finding that your entire website isn't being cached then by all means I'd recommend submitting an XML sitemap to Google. However if your finding that pages that have been on you website for a long time have not been spiders / cached it will be more beneficial to find out why. The most common reason for this is poor website structure, and lack of ranking. On my own site I do a lot of internal link building between pages and it really pays off. I actually find that from the point I add a new page to the point I have organic search traffic landing on it is around 8 days (it is nearly almost spidered on the same day as adding it to the site). Also just by submitting your sitemap you will most likely notice very little difference in the amount of traffic. You may want to look at doing some link building to internal pages just so Google thinks that the entire site is important enough to spider and rank. Cheers.

This is a great way to achieve links with your desired anchor text. However I always check 1) Is there a nofollow tag (don't both) 2) Are signatures allowed to have URLs 3) Has the topic I am posting on been Cached by Google 4) Does it have a google pagerank (always a bonus). Cheers.

I am a big fan of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, I've been using Dreamweaver since version 4.0. When it comes to Web Development it is not for no reason that Dreamweaver is the industry standard. For someone who wants to learn how to code XHTML / HTML it has a lot of great features. The main ones you will like as a novice is 1) Syntax Highlighting 2) Ability to collapse code select an opening tag or closing tag, click collapse and you can see where it starts and ends 3) Special Character conversion 4) Ability to maintain multiple websites 5) Flipping between design, coding, and split views. And thats just a start. I'd also stay as far away as possible from Frontpage as its code is substandard. Cheers.