There is a lot to fix to change everything away from a capitalised font. Ouch, we will look into this. The reason the layout has such large margins is to help it to maintain a more uniformed look throughout resolutions. I agree it can look a little contrictive. again I will have a peek at making the main content box wider as well as varying the depth. Thanks again all for your suggestions. If anyone that has posted here requires hosting, PM me and we can see about a discount. Regards Matt
800 pixel used to be a common width, but that is very old thinking. 95% of all monitors are using 1024 or greater, and that number keeps getting higher as monitors get better. Width should be set to a percentage not pixels, and then your site will designed to keep up with the times. You can still design for a specific size using %. Imagine you want design a site that is about 800px wide on a 1024 monitor. Just take 800x100/1024, which equals about 78%. Set the width to 78%. It will now look the way you want on a 1024 monitor, and will expand or shrink to other resolutions.
I would rather change the colours on the Home Page, and make it less dark. Many people hate black and red as implying something illegal. Also, it's hard to read text on black background. Sometimes you need to highlight the text to better see what is written, it's really annoing at times.
If we changed it to white on black would that help? Can you confirm whether it is just the grey text or the font itself. We cannot change the black background as this would change the whole look and feel of the site and we like that. We are working on the content box width now to make it a little more dynamic and we not what you put about red text. we will try and tone it down a little! Regards Matt