Web Site Design Help

[doctor_voyager]

Hello. In the past couple of months, I put together a simple web design which I planned to use on a site I am planning on developing. I uploaded a few of the pages to the site on one of my accounts to trial it under other people's judgements and many have said it is missing something. Ignoring the rest of the site, could someone maybe possibly give me a few suggestions that could help me out? Thanks...

http://www.geocities.com/shinrasoldier3/commonwealth/main.html

[samaru]

Well, the first thing I noticed was that the image on the top wasn't loading (shinratopbannerv.2.gif). The second, your layout is being stretched out too far to the right. You make your table widths to 127%. Is there a reason? Change them to 100%. The rest are design issues. For example, others mind find black text over red hard to read. Also, where you have "Welcome To The Shin-Ra Commonwealth Web Page!" and " Copyright 2003 Shin-Ra Commonwealth" in the red bars, they seem out of place. If I were you, I'd just leave them as black text over the white background.