Hi guys

Looks great. Nice clean design.

Here's a few thoughts:

1) Can you make your top menu stand out a bit more - maybe with background color to the items - and also put in some sort of CSS color change on mouseover, so people get a clear sense of these being the main menu links. A hover tooltip within the each link can give some extra information about each link too.

2) Putting your street address into the footer of the homepage will help peple with Google local search.

Does your title tag for the home page include the full name of the church, and your town/region? You also have room to add a few welcoming words in the title tag - go to about 70 characters

On my computer, I can only just see the decorative graphics on each side of the welcome title - can you make those a bit darker?

3) Do consider including a graphic of a person, or people, on the homepage. (And other pages too, where you can)

This is one of our suggestions at
http://ied.gospelcom.net/church-site-design.php

People can identify with people!

Best wishes

Tony

Well, it would be easier to discuss if I understood Swedish /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> and I really wish I did since I have Swedish, Norske and Danish as part of my heritage.

Overall I think it's a good start.
I would suggest you go through all your pages and validate their code thru the validator at http://validator.w3.org/ never to early to start writing valid code.
Since it is a new site you should be using a strict doctype instead of a transitional one
If you are going to continue on in building websites I would suggest you becoming familiar with CSS for presentation and ditch the tables for layout. It will be difficult at first, but in the long run will make your life much easier.

The page background, while nice (looks kinda like Hardanger embroidery) detracts from the site IMHO. My eyes are drawn to that rather than your content.

Ditto for the reddish background on the left hand side... it just doesn't work for me as a color that fits in with the rest of the site... I would consider something different there.

Just my .02 and hope it helps

Well done for creating a good website. The content is well laid out and easy to read. The only thing I'd change is the font size in the left column by making it slightly bigger, as making it smaller means it is less likely to be read. I've no idea what it says but it looks like some upcoming events, which you might consider important and warrant more attention than you've given it. But well done overall /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Hi Guys!

Great Job!

1.) You should put the email addresses using a Javascript script to prevent spammers.

2.) On the first page ask the pastor and his wife to stand in front of the church this give a more personal feeling.

3.) Remove the SL*T Susnet comments above CCS

4.) Get some people pictures for your gallery, use the mode Portrait mode on your camera and take the pics outside, good and close to minimise the sky

5.) CSS stuff should be in an external file. Also try going table-less and use DIV's

Gavin :-)

I like it, you and your friend did do a good job.
Here are my comments to add to the mix:

Center the design. Fewer and fewer sites are left-aligned. Especially now with wider resolutions, someone could end up with a LOT of space over on the right.

I like the page background, but you might try it with a more subtle difference between the background color and the design color. That would be less distracting from the site itself.

Those are events on the left, right? I think the font size might be okay, then.

The paragraphs in your main text need space between them, such as on the home page and your history page. Okay, I just saw that you are styling your main content using < br > tags. It would be better code, and look better, to use paragraph tags
< p > and </ p >.

You need to learn a bit about CSS. Styles don't go within the html as you have them:

and it would be easier to have one stylesheet and link to it. Good use of CSS saves you many hours of work as you create and maintain a website.

See this site: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/ and work on the beginner & intermediate CSS lessons.

The top menu could use a roll-over effect.

See this page: http://www.robelle.com/tips/email-cloak.html
as someone noted above, you want to cloak email addresses so spambots don't pick them up and send you lots of spam.
It looks as if the script for the email popups is in the head of every page. Wouldn't you only need it on the contakt page?

See the above comments on a doctype; also some photos of people doing church activities would be helpful. Use generic, free photos if church members are not comfortable with their pics online.

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I really like what you have done, especially since this is your first website. I like the background image for the header a lot, the only thing I would say about this right now, is that I would rather have it centered then off to the left.

Thanks for all the comments!
It's always nice to get feedback on the work you do.
We will think about all the things you said to make the site better.
Pictures on people is on their way, we just have to check so it's ok to publice them.
We're not so good at css none of us but we're trying to learn as fast as we can.

With what you have shown us above, I am sure you will learn very quickly.