I'm probably not the best person to reply because I'll pick it appart to no end before it's over with.
To start with, the frames need to go and the left side navigation needs to be reworked. Also, if you keep the frames, put in a better title other than "blobrana" in the html frame itself. Individual pages should also have good solid titles so if you are able to pull them up with a search engine you don't get just "Blobrana" or "News". A well written meta description no longer than 255 characters will also help when looking up the pages in a search engine.
The site lacks overall definition between sections and areas. One section on the first page uses a black font and another uses a bold red font to increase the importance a bit yet at first glance it all looks like it's part of the same bits of information. You really should keep the snow off the site and put it on a splash page of some sort to drop the confusion. Keep in mind though, splash pages are a bit passe in web practices although I still use one on my site. Going from section to section feels like I'm going to a completely different web site, keep an overall theme for all of the pages you have. You can change colors from page to page but at least make the color change subtle. Also, If you use a black background image, make sure to set the bgcolor="#000000" in the tag so viewers going to your web site can read the white text without images. Each section feels like a completely different place, and what's with the moon phases in the upper left corner supposed to mean. It would be good if I could get a thorough description of the navigational items so I don't have to guess where I'm going to. You have a link at the bottom of the nav page that links to "Current issue" but of what? The navigation changes from page to page but it's not consistant, some of the image links move and some of them change from page to page, sometimes they aren't even there. I found a "your guide to blobrana" but it left a confusing feel without the ability to access it.
Animation is nice but when you have too much animation it's just a distraction. The animated
tags need to go, they don't look very professional. The dancing girls need to get gone yesterday, the add a cheap feel to the overall web site. The heart beating has nothing to it, why is it there and what relation does it have to "Gearing up for Solstice!"?
Graphics need to be cleaned up if you are going to use drop shadows. Drop the Java Applets, replace them with something more tangible and a little less irritating (coming from a Java programmer, I hate applets). I found a gallery but I can't tell what it is or what it refers to. The link colors should be defined for the pages so they don't blend in to the background before, during, or after clicking on them. A really good example of bad color choices for links can be found on
v3.vapor.com of all places, try clicking on the blue links on the right side under the .plan... they disappear comletely.
Midi... uhg... Unless you are trying to sell me on your music I don't want to hear it, thank god for Opera and the ability to turn embeded audio off. If you want to show off some of your mods you've made then a midi file would be good as a quick sample of the same work but not in a manner of forcing it on people who view the web site, at least give an option to not play audio on the server end (yes, it's possible to do just that in JavaScript).
Anyway, that's a quick five minutes of going over your web site. Please don't think I'm outright bashing your work, I do this for a living and find things like this all the time. If you'd like some help and suggestions, I'd be happy to offer some of my ideas.
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