[dadder]

http://www.openelementsgroup.com
Can everyone critique my site and let me know what I can do to improve it or attract local designers to it without spending too much $$$?
I guess if that question was answerable, life would be too easy.
Anyway, it's a site 'directory', although I hate that word, for all design related services in our area. This site easily services an area of 500,000 residents, not much, but enough to support the site. The question is, how can I build traffic?
ALSO, I am trying very hard to find a good free message board. I don't like the one that I currently have. I really like MacNN's message board, but would cost me $6/mo. Fairly cheap, but FREE would be better
Please critique!!!
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[Rainy Day]

On Things Webmastering you can find links to BBS packages, as well as links to HTML validators. Your page doesn't have a DOCTYPE, which it should if you want it to render properly on the largest variety of browsers. Look at the Search Engine area for info on promoting your site.