Good, to get you started:
Colors are a pain to the eye, especially the bright-green on a black background. The first link on your news page led me to HL Rally's page, wich was a lot more pleasing to the eye. Try some less flashy colors.
Layout is probably even worse, with scrollbars even being nested... Try to get rid of the scrollbars especially in the side-menu. One thing to get started would be to make it more compact, as several items don't necessarily have to be there. I also noticed several menu items are mailing links. I don't know about others, personally I found it pretty annoying. At least indicate in the hyperlinks text that it's about mailing.
The site is also heavily
inconsistent, with white, grey, reddish pages all trough the place giving little feeling of coherency.
About the
news posts: adding a date to them could surely be nice. It helps people see if these posts are still relevant to them. It also shows how regularly the site is updated. Adding more to a newspost, like the person who posted it and such could also be nice though that's a designers choice.
Proofreading articles before posting them is also handy. There's no "Neutral Selection" though I do know a mod called "Natural Selection".
A tip about
images: with the proper tools, you'll be able to make them much smaller in filesize. Pages load a little faster, a little less bandwidth is being used, more webspace left for other things... it costs a little time but that's really all there is to it. May I recommend
XAT JPEG Optimizer?
There's also some
broken links and some wrong references. I don't think 'new NPC pictures' was meant to take me to a HL2 review...
Site optimizing for 1280 x 1024? That's quite a rare browsing resolution. Most people either stick to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. And that's where your site isn't good at. You may want to reconsider your target resolution. Again, I would recommend a program:
Sizer.
Wow, that's a long post. Thanks for giving me a break opportunity from my programming. Good luck with the site!
