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http://www.greenwithivory.com
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I am only new to this and would like some ideas on what I can do to increase the profile of my site.
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Not a bad design at all. The Home, Search, and Cart links in the top right are kinda hard to see though, I'd probably make them a bit larger and stand out a bit more. I'd also set up some hover effects on the menu just to make them look active. You may also want to tighten it up some so that more of the menu appears above the fold (meaning in the area they see without scrolling)
Code-wise, it looks pretty good. You do have 2 titles, which means browsers are going to use the first one ("Home") and ignore the second one ("Bone and Jade Carvings from New Zealand") which is probably the one you really want. The title is important for SEO, and the second one would definitely work to your advantage, so I'd delete the first one and move the second one up in it's place.
You are also repeating the class element on a couple of tags (<div class='text' class="text">). It doesn't matter which quote you use, but you should only have one class element per tag (though you can have multiple classes in that element if you need to).
On a couple of <td> tags you're trying to set nowrap. They should look like <td nowrap='nowrap'> instead of true.
And finally, whenever you use an ampersand (&) in html, it should be coded as & instead of just &. The & is a special character in html. When a browser sees one, it looks for a character entity such as & etc... The & entity can and should even be used in URLs to avoid confusion. Don't worry, it will appear and work correctly in the browser.
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I will add that more contrast is needed with the text, at least the navigation.
I understand the "green theme" but you can stay in theme if you use a "bone" or "Ivory" color for the text.
Right now with the green on green somebody who is color blind could have difficulty.
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Thank you Coloeagle I will change that and see what it looks like.
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