First Website

[marcato15]

Please take a look at this site. It is my first web page and I am getting ready to do 2 more so I would like some ideas of what is good and what I should change.
Campchetek.org (http://www.campchetek.org)

Thanks

[WoD]

I think you have generally done a damned good job there, it is a damn sight better than my first website in those dark days of publisher and frontpage.

I almost can not fault it, however right at the very bottom you have the links: "About Us Directions Site" with no form of separation, and not marked up as a list.

Also, your image alt tags are not particularly descriptive, links are untitled, and there are no accesskeys - but I should not imagine you are shooting for a huge degree of accessibility here anyway.

As an afterthought, place that pretty header image as the background to a DIV so that is dissapears when CSS is disabled. As a layout image it should appear in the style sheet rather than the html.

[the tree]

At first glance it looks great. Scrolling down I think you ought to reconsider this image (http://www.campchetek.org/images/summerstaff.gif).
The big image at the top is marked up as an image, which isn't really apropriate: you're alt text doesn't give all the infomation that the image does (thus, accessability issues) and it wont be great for search engines. Try image replacement (http://wdhaven.com/article/12/bir) so that you can keep all of that infomation in there.

Edit: for a first site, it's pretty impressive.

[cromagnan]

Why .org?

The name should be available .com


Just curious.

[buntine]

Good job! This is your first site and you wrote it in XHTML Strict and used PHP? Unbelievable.

[jmaresca2005]

really nice job for your first website. you have a promising future as a designer. you will see, as you get more experienced, that your designs will improve. for the first time, this site is really great. nice job and keep @ it.