cheers for the feedback so far...
Its amazingly handy to hear other peoples opinions as its too easy to become caught up in your own design....i will try and change the fonts and amend it a little.
the reason for using the fonts i used is originally i was using helvetica and it just looked so boring i wanted something that looked at the least like i hadnt typed up in word.
my aim is to make it relatively simple but not look amaturish....quite hard!
other than that im quite happy considering it took me just over a weeks worth of pottering on dreamweaver in the evenings to make the whole site.
any more comments very much appreciated
p.s what i really want to know is how or where doe you get cool backgrounds that are subtle and which can also be seperate to your body of text (do you have to use layers to do this??)