In reply to a post by metalhead41:

I'll be honest, the site will be going up on the main domain in a few days, I didn't really want to password protect it as I wanted to let people see it to give me feedback.

just set up a robots.txt file to tell search engines not to index

In reply to a post by 12eason:

Nowadays though, with cheap widescreen LCDs, having fixed width websites often means they waste have the screen real estate. It does mean you have to spend more time making stuff reflow sensibly though. I suppose it comes down to skill in the end.

its got nothing to do with skill.. more so what the designer wants to do with the site.

Bad designers, maybe.

Fixed design is fine, don't worry about that. Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, ect, all have fixed width designs. They clearly either had ropey designers or it made sense to them.

What I found weird is that your site's background colour is more or less of similar colour to Firefox's back button.

Is it? My back button is black

In reply to a post by metalhead41:

Is it? My back button is black

hehe. regards to the background i've have done a grass background with a football in it and the right handside with the team's shield

Hmm, good idea, I'll have a play around with that and see what I can come up with. I assume you mean the body background and not the background behind the the content text?

In reply to a post by metalhead41:

Hmm, good idea, I'll have a play around with that and see what I can come up with. I assume you mean the body background and not the background behind the the content text?

yep body background... would suggest fadeing top half to black and making the football huge

What do visitors to the site want to do? If you put links to things they want the most top left then they tend to see them sooner. If they want upcoming fixtures then have that as a quick link.

The site is plain but it is more important that visitors find what they want easily than have a fancy looking site with poor usability.

Also add a search feature as it will tell you what people are looking for if the links already shown don't seem to offer what they want.

Not sure a footer with the same links as the menu bar is a good idea in such a large typeface. Shrink the footer as the top menu should be the primary navigation.