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Boils down to personal preference and monitor settings.

I prefer warmer colors.

What Kali said, sort of.

Using a known font isn't necessarily bad, as long as you use the right one. Comic Sans... no. Times New Roman... no. Verdana, Tahoma, Calibri... yes. Avoid serif fonts and you're mostly fine.

I'd darken the white frame and change the menu background color to something solid. Other than that, sweet site. The blue frame and the blue in the background image looks great.

Try changing the 'wow' in the URL to 'www' and check out the wasted space there. Good stuff.

Maybe ask NixNot for font advice; I honestly don't know a font that would fit your idea that isn't either fugly or Impact and Impact has the wrong connotations to be used for a professional website. Maybe just go with Tahoma, Verdana, Calibri and change the font weight. To do that, go into your style.css document and add the line
font-weight:900;
somewhere within the body {}.

1. I'm not wrong because anyone who cares will tell you it's awful.
Seriously, just try replacing

font-family: Arial black;

everywhere in your style sheet with

font-family: Verdana; 
font-weight: 900;

and adjust the weight if you want and then do the same for your header if you like it.

2. The problem with your width is probably in the style.css file, specifically

 
#container { 
width: 800px; 
margin-left: 40px; 
padding-top: 0px; 
padding-bottom: 0px; 
}

Try something like

#container { 
width: 70%; 
padding-top: 0px; 
padding-bottom: 0px; 
}

instead.

That should account for different screen resolutions on the user's side, and cut the margin on either side down to 15% of the screen width.
You'd have to adjust the banner and menu accordingly, probably, to make it align properly and such.

Kali you're still wrong.
I know what I want as far as looks go and I am not building the site myself so I'm not going to **** around with fonts.
I frankly don't give a flying **** about what you or "anyone who cares" thinks because I know what looks good and what doesn't.

I had to go back a page to find out why you wrote that.

Aeth, the font thing is a very minor issue. Personally, the font being used doesn't strike me as wrong in any way.

Anything beats Times New Roman.

Kali has a fetish for fonts or something.

Also here is the design:

This.

What it's saying is "Arial is so 2001" which is personal opinion. In this case, Aeth isn't making a poster, he's making a website. Websites, especially ones like Aeth's, should feel personal, not like something right out of Karl Lagerfeld's mind. While it's important that a website maintains a certain aesthetic standard, so as to not degenerate into this, there's no need to make it too impersonal.

If Aeth wants Arial, he should stick with Arial. There would only be cause for alarm if he insisted on going with TNR, in which case I'd take him out the backyard and put him down myself.

Let Aeth make his website the way he wants to make it.

Save money? In what way does using Arial for your website save you money?

And Kali, you're way beyond normal website construction here. Changing the weight of a specific font? I mean, that's the stuff you care about if you're doing a presentation for a major company somewhere or something. Or if you're in the greetings card business. For a personal website, using a font that isn't Times New Roman or Comic Sans is really all you need to worry about.

There's a difference between properly and pedantically, Kali.

And when you say the font should have its weight changed, you're actually saying it shouldn't be bold, right? Use layman terms, srs. It's been four years since I took that course, and it wasn't in English. I thought you were referring to manually slimming/thickening parts of the individual letters.

To be honest, as long as he's going with the white background, it doesn't hurt to have a, um, heavy(?) font. Reduces the amount of visual noise you get from the white. I'm sure it's horrible from an art designer's point of view, but you have to factor in functionality as well. A pretty website isn't worth a lot if the viewers burn out their corneas the moment it loads.

As for fonts, Bleeding Cowboys and Curlz MT are logo fonts. No one in their right minds would write an entire paragraph or more in that. I know my sister once did in Curlz MT, but she was 12 years old and it was back when wRiTinG LiEk tHiS wAs aLsO HoT.

Kali, most website designers most likely stay within the reasonable range of fonts. The fonts they know and like. My guess is fonts like Bleeding Cowboys and Curlz MT aren't on that list. But to argue whether it should be bold Arial, regular Verdana or Calibri... that's pedantic. Not necessary.