Hi Kat_1,
Thanks for you replay, :) yes I suppose it is all very grey, just how I wanted it, to make everything stand out, and professional looking.

"I don't really get sites with Enter site buttons on the index page- why doesn't the site just open straight away?" Well, in my case, can't talk for every one, I want my guests to see my Ratings, and certifications, before they enter my site, also to tell people that its best viewed with IE. 5.0+. Site optimized for screen 1024 x 768 resolution with Java enabled. Designed while using a "medium" text setting in IE. 6.0. And to see the credits, and site Info page, before entering the site.

About my enter button point taken will look into that.

"I don't understand what the point of all the award sites on the net is?"
Well to start with, most people want some sort of recognition for their hard work, also help and guidance in improving there web sites, this is given on request, by our guests, the help, I give is, free advice, free tuition if needed. With all our evaluations of the web sites that are submitted to use, we check for things like coding, design, content, all aspects of the sites, and give scoring for things in our criteria, please remember all scoring is just our opinion on a site, from experienced webmasters to professional designers.

We also have free online tools, to help people, with there sites, also If an applicant wins one of our awards, they get free referrals to there sites, in our winners pages, with full description of the site.

We do not ask anything in return, we all give up our spear time, in the hope of bettering the web, people ask us what right do you have to, judge other sites or be critics of them, well the simple, why come to us in the first place and ask use to, we don't critersize we only give negative feed back on request. We all start somewhere, its our way of saying thank you for the help we have received along the way.

So its all about, promoting web excellence, help, feed back, referrals, and family safe sites, and information.

Also there is down sides to it, there is sites out there, what we call give away awards, and that's about self promotion, they don't even visit your site, give feed back, just send you an award and ask you to link it back to them.

Thanks, Cliff.