Hello,

I've developed a community for authors and readers, called "Raconter.net" (French word for "to tell"), where everybody can publish his or her fictional or non-fictional texts. These texts can be commented by every visitor.

What do you think of the design, the concept, or the texts?

Unfortunately, English is not my mother tongue, so there are maybe several mistakes on the page. If you'd like to report them to me, please send me an e-mail via the contact form (Link: "Contact Us").

Thank you in advance.
Link: http://www.raconter.net

Isn't the correct usage 'raconteur' ? -- a PERSON who tells stories ??

Anyway.. nice site
Design is pretty good, and it's fairly easy to navigate. Some of your categories are a little thin, but that will flesh out as you get more users.

Your code - mostly valid, but WHY go to all the trouble of using CSS for your layout but you put the whole thing inside a TABLE ?? If you did that just for centering, you do not need to and should not. You'll need to add a few lines to your CSS.

For IE to center, add text-align: center to the rules for the body.
For all other browsers, add this:

#background{
margin: 0 auto;
}

You already have a fixed width on #background, so all you need to add is that one line to make it center.

Hello,

thank you very much for your review!
The person who tells stories is called "raconteur", but that domain had already been taken, so I chose the verb "raconter".

The table is just a provisional solution, I will fix that in good time.

Not a bad looking site -- but, when I scrolled to the bottom, the right side of the footer doesn't fit inside the border, like the template skin you copied from Kali

You might also want to fix your code warnings shown below -- Kali's XHMTL & CSS validated:

line 88 column 28 - Warning: discarding unexpected </b>
line 171 column 7 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 173 column 106 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 174 column 9 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 175 column 5 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 175 column 12 - Warning: '<' + '/' + letter not allowed here
line 154 column 1 - Warning: missing </script>
line 154 column 1 - Warning: missing </script>
line 101 column 63 - Warning: <a> proprietary attribute "alt"
line 101 column 135 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 29 column 1 - Warning: trimming empty <li>
line 95 column 80 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
line 102 column 177 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
line 105 column 189 - Warning: trimming empty <p>

on the whole it looks cool and good ...

1. Black text on dark blue gets lost, not enough contrast. [for "Contest: $50 for the best story"]. I'd remove that text from the header, put contest rules on a separate page, and put a bright visible banner advertising the contest taking about 1/2 the space where contest rules are now.
2. Move login box higher up. Also, at higher text sizes the "remember me" checkbox and text get separated (on different lines).

3. Categories page: move the categories list towards the center (similar to your Top Tens page).

4. Keep up the good work