Checked it again, and this time it actually loaded very fast :)

On the very bottom, where you have you copyriight notice, the drop-shadow almost covers the text, not good.

If I were you, I'd get rid of the W3C buttons and rather have text links. W3C is good at a lot of things, but their graphics department sucks... hehe.

Your templates look ok, but somehow a few of them gives me a bit of a "Front Page" feeling. But they are clean, fast loading, and looks simple to edit for users.

Personally I am not to keen on having news etc.. in many small scrolling boxes.

I guess you are planning to have a 488x60 banner in the site header, but at the moment it looks very strange with the open grey there. I'd rather make a demo banner containing something like "Your ad HERE?" or something and stick there until you get a rotator or whatever up there.