noticably faster load
screen fonts sized around my basefont, Thank you
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Some parts of the site use fixed size text, px, 10px is 1.8mm high on my screen, and does not resize if I Select larger.
the W3C reccommended fonts sizes for screen display are em and %, each of...

includes, for menues copyright etc, are code scraps incomplete files stitched together by the server an served as 1 file
framesets are made up of full files with headers et al and each takes longer...

The font of the web site may make not be the font displayed on the user browser, if the font is not one available on the user browser the closest 'family' will be used, and may look different or...

standard tips and tweaks

http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html?www.hd-fractals.com/...

dont use fixed sixe column it looks less than effective on widescreen monitors and creates scroll bars in part screen windows, users do not scroll, they leave
set the margin, dont set the inner,...

Inline <strong><font size> crap is not used with xhtml/css
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webtoolhub.com%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en css3...

On a strictly code based critique
Tables are not used for layout, they do not display any part until the entire table is rendered. CSS positioning is used for layout
Fixed size elements body, fonts...

from the top
Meta tags are improperly formatted, inaccessible to bots
get the styles out of the page, out of the header, and into a stylesheet where they will only be accessed once for the entire...

external stylesheets :: contain all the style descriptions for everything, they only get loaded once :: current best practice

styles :: contain all the style descriptions for everything, embedded...