I like the organic colors of this site, but on some screens the logo appears washed out. I'm curious what others like or dislike about this rather simple, but what I think is an effective new site. On a side note a developed the NEWS portion of the site myself with PHP, but I bought the PHP Photo Gallery and PHP Forum. Well. I appreciate in advance any time someone spends on reviewing this site. Thanks.
Readable.. easy to use... looks clean on first impression; does not look made for adsense. Photo thumbnails next to the articles would go a long way with breaking up the page and increasing interest in the individual stories. Congrats on the programming feat. I would suggest doing friendlier names for your news system. Instead of http://www.newurbanobserver.com/new-urban-news.php?id=146 it should be http://www.newurbanobserver.com/news/walking-the-village-of-baxter.html That would be done with an .htaccess file like this RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^news/(.*) /new-urban-news.php?n=$1 Then in your news php file, take the variable $_REQUEST['n'] and determine which article the user requested by searching your DB for the article name. You can also put the ID in the URL like this http://www.newurbanobserver.com/news/walking-the-village-of-baxter_146.html and then extract the ID from the N variable instead of querying for the title