Advice needed on this webpage

[ShadowHunter]

I am a homeschool graduate currently attending California State University, Fresno. The organization I used to belong to has had a lot of crap associated with their website (more money than I care to know wasted), so I volunteered to just get something basic working so they can decide what to do from there.

www.chefa.org

What do you think of it so far? I did it entirely on my 15" PowerBook G4. The page I did in Freeway Express and the menus I did on DHTML Menu Builder through my Virtual PC Windows XP. Any tips about how to spruce it up...? It seems plain to me.

Lastly, they would like to pay me. They want to me to give them a per-page cost and a monthly maintenance fee. I am a network administrator to put me through school, and I have done web pages at all my jobs....but usually with help. This is my first serious page on my own. What numbers should I give?

 

[howard]

nice job,

a couple of the suggestions..

put the "of the" in the title somewhere else so there not floating randomly. Also the blue color is a little weird when you hover over the links. the blue surrounding the text and in the drop down menu's don't match.

i would also make the font smaller... thats just my personal opinion

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

I would make the blue bar that surrounds the drop down menu when you mouse-over the about/starting out/ect sections smaller. It seems too wide. I also think the font is too large.
But thats just my opinion.

 

[ShadowHunter]

I would make the blue bar that surrounds the drop down menu when you mouse-over the about/starting out/ect sections smaller. It seems too wide. I also think the font is too large.
But thats just my opinion.

Font on the menu or on the page(s)?

 

[cleo]

It has been my experience, especially while I was in school, that it's much easier to spend more time and effort up-front creating a dynamic site that the organization can update themselves (I usually use PHP/MySQL) than to be responsible (even being paid for it) for monthly updates. That can get to be a real pain in the butt -- getting emails every few days asking if you'll add this event, remove that phone number, change this email. It's something to consider.

As for payment, I find it much easier to work on an hourly rate. If you like, you can break down your invoices to show what work you did in each block of time. For straight HTML, and given the fact that you're not coding by hand, I'd ask for $25/hr.

 

[iLikeMyiMac]

Font on the menu or on the page(s)?

Font on the page(s).