am aware were looking for layout/design comments but want to give a security perspective of the site as well.
am into hacking [purely for helping other people] and do a lot of penetration testing of websites for securities sake,have been scanning the site for a while with various pen testing tools of mine, will post results when its all finished.
because are hoping to set up a database with the site and will have users/customers information on it,woud really recommend learning about penetration testing so will be able to recognise site vulnerabilities before the blackhat hackers do.
always make sure to use the latest database software,some of the older versions of mySQL are extremely vulnerable to SQLi [SQL injection]-in some cases its as easy as using 'admin' and text strings such as '1 OR 1=1' as username and password in the login boxes of sites with vulnerable mySQL-SQLi confuses sites into believing the person logging in is admin.
and as soon as a vulnerable site gets found it gets spread around the mixed hacker community.