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Looking over your site, I think you have a good direction, but I think there are some major points you need to reconsider and remember when doing web design.
The very first things that caught my attention on your pages, were the various background glyphs. I like the idea of creating a similar feel between each page, but using a significant detail to determine difference. The problem here is that it is poorly executed. The main problem is that the glyphs are far too distracting. I am not sure on the actual statistics, but the majority of your viewers are not going to stay at your site for much over 5 minutes. Giving each page a ceiling of about 30 seconds depending on how much content is available. So when serving content, you need it to be clear, concise, and easily viewable (image or text). When going to a page on your site, the viewer is required to stop, and concentrate on reading the text and seperating it from the background. Most users that come across your site, will find this not worth the effort and will either leave your site or continue to some other section.
The other problem with the large glyph, is that it make the menu far more difficult to read. The buttons blend in to the rest of the page and are not easily decipherable as links. The same problem occurs in the header. It does not have noticeable features that will allow it to stand out.
Overall you need to get your core content seperated from your site design, and make it easy for your veiwers to access what they want.
Also as another note, your message abotu Javascript links to java.com. There is a large difference here Javascript != Java. Javascript is supported in almost all of the current major browsers, but users may have it turned off.
Java is the mutli-platform programming language currently being developed by Sun MicroSystems. Installing Java will not activate Javascript in the clients browser, as far as I know, it will only installe the Java Virtual Machine to run Java applications.
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