First website - check it out!!

hey whats up everyone...i only have a half year experience of web design and im only a senior in high school, but i think my website is pretty decent for as little experience as i have. so feel free to check out my website and give me any advice you can...i would greatly appreciate it!!

http://www.hotsexylayouts.com

Thanks!!

~webdesign4life~

Needs to be moved to free critique forum....

Great on ya for having a go, but I disagree.
You have a little knowledge, which you've put it into practice, and I can't praise you enough for getting that far. But then you've let it slide. It's like you're happy to stay at that level and not bothered to go any further and improve.
Web design (at any level) consists of a lot more than taking someone else's images and using them as your own.

I didn't look at all the 'layouts' on your site but the ones I did, I'm afraid need a lot of work.

To critique that site, or any of the layouts therein, most here could write a book rather than a short sumary of bullet points.
You need to put a lot more work into searching for inspiration (and I DON'T mean COPY); Look at other websites. Compare them to yours. See the difference? Which bits look better? Which bits looks worse? Why do some bits work and some not? How can you incoporate those techniques into your designs?

I don't want to sound rude, your designs are just a beginning for you.
Sorry but they're not good m8.
Hopefully you can look objectively at them and see where to go from here and come back in a few weeks / months and we will be able to watch your skills evolve into something very worthwhile, but you haven't got there YET.

Don't use dark text on dark backgrounds. In fact, try and get away from dark backgrounds for a while, you'll learn more.

A lot of the above i agree with gd job for your first site but keep advancing you still have a long way to go! but so do we all. Post any updates for us but next time in free website critique!
rusty

I agree completely with RedSkwirrell.