Website Madness!

I'm designing a website for my interface design class and this is a small example of one of the pages. I'm still going to add alot to it the navigation still needs alot of work BUT this is the beginning of it. My last page I showed my teacher he said it looked like a clown through up on it... YEP dagger to the self-esteem. But I do need direction or I will just be all over the place just like everything else I do in art. Just glad I got a 2nd chance, and a 3rd, and 4th, etc. So this is like the first draft. Gosh help me when i have to design in in Dreamweaver!