Blue links on a black background?
It’s been a while coming, but as you can see Highway81 now have a new, improved and pretty awesome (if we say so ourselves!) website.
Highway81 now HAS a new...
improved and pretty awesome
Pretty awesome? Who are your potential customers? Business owners or kids wanting a MySpace of Facebook facelift?
(if we say so ourselves!)
I wouldn't do a whole lot of personal bragging, especially in the opening paragraph. You're not telling me (the potential customer) what you can do for me, because you're too busy being self-congratulatory.
White text on a black background is cool, but difficult to read. For me anyway, and it may be for others as well.
The actual Web design is important, but in many cases so is the content. Especially when the website being reviewed is YOUR Website Design - website. What I'll try to do is to get YOU to look at and READ your website as though you were a visitor to your site. Things that look and sound reasonable to you may not to a visitor.
When designing websites you have to first establish WHO you are designing the website for. Are you designing it for yourself or for your visitors? For your client, or your client's potential customers?