[gIWnXYkw]

Mugu, I manage a joint website between my college's kendo club and naginata club and I was wondering if you could take a look and give me some suggestions. I'm in the process of updating it so the one online is a bit old but I haven't been able to start updating till now. Let me know what you think and please feel free to give me some suggestions. BTW, if you're still around in the Minneapolis area in the fall, you should come down to Northfield and practice with us. Our schedule is on the main page of the site.

http://www.orgs.carleton.edu/naginata-kendo/welcome

Hey!

Mmm... looks like it still needs quite a bit work... just to let you know when it comes to critique, I'm pretty rough I'm actually better than my web design teacher, he will tells us "This is shit and go work on it more!" So here's me

1. The backgrounds drove me crazy, especially there are different backgrounds on different pages. I could barely read the information on there. Background 101 - Have a flat color background or no background at all. That's my rule. Especially a site like this because this is an informational website, you don't want to confuse and or frustrate your visitors. People want information, not cool graphics

2. Always remember this, "Simplicity is a beauty". That's my design "dou". That's just me, I like to see things those are pleasing and calm instead of chaotic. As for yours, it was pretty chaotic.

Those are my two big thingies on your site, though the layout is very well organized. Try some flat colors, look at these sites for inspirations:

http://chrisamo.blogspot.com/
http://www.endlife.com/
http://www.livingchildren.com/
http://www.ninjai.com/

All of the sites I listed above are very simple, just gradient here and there, add little bit of graphics. And try your hands in CSS, you can make things really pretty without using much graphics

If you need any help, feel free to email me and I'll gladly to help.

Where is your dojo? Coz there isn't an address there. It'll be fun to drop by to say hi