My First Website. Some Questions!

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Hi:

I am by no means a graphic designer or web designer. However, I decided to build a small 4-page site using Dreamweaver and trial-and-error methods. Please don't be too hard on me!

The site is: adamack pro.com (remove space of course)

It is basically a small site based around a flash music store on which I sell my hip-hop, pop, and r&b instrumentals. I've got 2 other sites, but this was the first one which I designed myself. Here comes the questions:

1. Be honest on the design. Does it look very amateurish?

2. Should I ditch this kind of "from scratch" page and use a Wordpress blog to recreate the entire site? Would this typically be more efficient for SEO purposes, better design templates and helpful widgets?

3. How does my on-site SEO appear? Should I include or get rid of anything?

4. If this page is suffice from a functional standpoint but lacks in visual design, would anybody be willing to give it a "facelift"? Most likely a new logo, new header, a nice-looking nav bar, new heading bar backgrounds, etc. If so, could you send me a PM with your previous work and a price quote for my site?

5. Is the age of backlinking through articles still in strong suit? It's been awhile since I've done SEO for a website, and I wasn't sure if the times have changed and article-backlinks were less valued.

Thank you very much for any replies. I wanted to come here for some advice before I put tons of time into marketing the site.

If you have any other ideas for it, please be willing to share.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
    Overall I like the feel of the site, its simple but your formatting is off and the page is to wide, you should not be getting a scroll bar on the bottom, at least I am?

    If you are interested in any graphics, I can help.
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  • Profile picture of the author omanbaforum.com
    cool idea...

    yes your site looks very amateurish i should say.

    design: 2/10
    seo: 1/10
    intrumentals 8/10

    your onsite is poor, first thing i saw, meta tags have just been left empty. you need to concentrate more on onsite seo for the site then do offsite with time.

    css/html codes are way of the track. you have nice music and i would be happy to work with you...
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  • Profile picture of the author markjacey
    Just use Wordpress - tons of SEO plugins, thousands of templates
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  • Profile picture of the author pafran
    My IM progress is stalling because of website design and wordpress "know how".
    Am I better off outsourcing?
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  • Profile picture of the author weaveronline
    Site looks ok,I am sorry , i didn't liked the design and layout, mail if you are planning to redesign the site with us,
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