[Morphling]

A quick question what kind of IDE do you use when developing?

Couple things about the sites, you might be - as you said - good with HTML and CSS, but you don't have very good design sense. The pages you've linked don't look visually appealing, at least to me.

Also you say on your page that your websites are "coded to W3C XHTML strict guidelines.", but noelvock.com uses HTML5 doctype (as everything should imo) and wildhives nets almost 30 validation errors.

It's a good start and at least you are putting yourself out there, but these would be the things you'd get burned for from my experience.

[Noel_V]

I've had some good feedback about the Wild Hives site with regards design, but hey, preferences like that are largely subjective.

My portfolio site definitely needs some updating and with regards the validation errors, I could fix them, but its low in my list of things to do.

The ide I use is Dreamweaver. I'm also familiar with Photoshop and Fireworks.

Thanks for the feedback, its very welcome and hoping for further suggestions..

[Noel_V]

Here's something I whipped together in 45 minutes

http://www.noelvock.com/sgto

[pknerd]

Dreamweaver will exploit your skills. Don't go for so called _WYSIWYG_ editors. Try Netbeans, textmare or even notepad++

[Noel_V]

Have started using netbeans, as of today, can see why you would suggest it, it seems, at first impression much better