On one of my recipe sites, on the Chicken Recipes page, the layout looks a bit messy. Can anyone suggest a better way to organise this? I know the whole in general needs a bit of a rehaul design wise, but im looking for specific ideas on how to improve this page to link to all the other categories Any tips?
Seperate the google ads from your in-site links. Move the links somewhere else (under the header? or along the lefthand side but not in a big box?) Without that black box on the left pushing the other stuff to the right, the first line of chicken recipes won't go off to the side like it does. Either way I wouldn't want google ads/links next to a menu for my site. Some people try very hard to avoid looking at ads than then don't see the inter-site links easily.
how you organized the structure is close to the perfect organization scheme. You should really check against FX (because it looks like hell). now let's start: in #main you have #IMGindex and #menu, a h1 and a paragraph. The h1 and the paragraph should be enclosed in a div too (because it's a division of your page). Also the div i mentioned that will engulf the h1 and paragraph and #menu should be enclosed in yet another div, so you will have more control over the display. Below you have the way i see the structure of the html document:
One quick way you can make it look neater, is to use the same image size for all the meal pictures, it'll all line up a lot better. Also, try and shorten some of the category names that go onto two lines (or make the 1 line ones longer). If each one has uniform size and style of link it will look a lot better.
The images still dont look properly lined up, the first two rows are not correctly alligned. I would change the navigation menu and remove that black box that its in. The navigation would be better going along the top of the images, as the way you have it now in a list is creating a large dead space next to it.