As we are on this topic - Can anyone offer any tips for mine.....its about 5 months old......I am a total and utter novice (which will be evident if you visit my site) .......still dont know what HTML means.........no kidding..... Thanks in advance.... Oh - the site.....www.volunteerbrazil.com
First thing I notice, it took too long to load. Second, the images are very out of proportion and don't look like they flow at all. Try to stream-line your site so it flows, left-to-right.
Remove the java applet. In case you didn't know, Java is slow. It has to be opened on-call, unless you choose to run it on-startup, which most people do not do. Also, change the height of the image on the right to it's normal size, it's apparantely stretched to cover the entire side of the page.