With the design, some ideas:
1. Stick with 3-4 colors. Be aware of your color choices. Readability is key for a site that’s primarily text, so nothing that clashes, nothing that blends in with text
2. Animated GIFs are, frankly, amateurish, and not in a good way. It really does harken back to the mid-to-late 90s. Unless you’re being intentionally ironic/funny, don’t use them.
3. Without looking at your code, I’m guessing you’re using tables for layout. Don’t. Learn to use, at the very least, div tags with CSS styling.
4. Look at what modern sites do. There are a ton of examples online that should both inspire you and point you in a better direction design wise. In most cases, less is more. Simple elements, font choices, color choices, all arranged deftly. You don’t need to be a graphic designer to at least tidy things up and organize them in a way that makes sense while being readable.
1. Stick with 3-4 colors. Be aware of your color choices. Readability is key for a site that’s primarily text, so nothing that clashes, nothing that blends in with text
2. Animated GIFs are, frankly, amateurish, and not in a good way. It really does harken back to the mid-to-late 90s. Unless you’re being intentionally ironic/funny, don’t use them.
3. Without looking at your code, I’m guessing you’re using tables for layout. Don’t. Learn to use, at the very least, div tags with CSS styling.
4. Look at what modern sites do. There are a ton of examples online that should both inspire you and point you in a better direction design wise. In most cases, less is more. Simple elements, font choices, color choices, all arranged deftly. You don’t need to be a graphic designer to at least tidy things up and organize them in a way that makes sense while being readable.