[Shelley_c]

Why doesn't that surprise me. Sorry to hear you've been scammed 3 times I don't think i could express in words how I would feel if that happened to me so instead I'll just grab a sledge hammer and smash my two monitors to get some idea.

Be very vigilant in future. Anyway, the reason why I'm replying is I took a look at your logo and thought that a nice beach/skyline scene would be? If you could break the logo into 3 areas, with 1/3 as sand, the middle 3rd as the ocean and and top 3rd as the skyline with possibly a palm tree on the left with vibrant text (name of your site) shooting out of it. Or, possibly have a couple of nicely cropped clown fish shooting out at different angles on the left. I'm thinking rich golden yellow for the sand and cyan light blue for the skyline something that gives off a tropical vibe.

This could easily be adapted and implemented to the rest of the style with vibrant icons running throughout. In my head It's all planned out and easy to suggest but if you could invision it (and possibly read my mind as well) the tropical theme would be a nice path to take for the site. Heck, go extreme with the colours with the greens, blues and richer colours of the spectrum.

May sound extreme but visit a travel agents and grab some booklets and this will give you the ideas on what to add in the way of colours. If I have time tomorrow I will pick up some booklets and scan them in for you to show you a few examples and you could possibly expand on that and implement your own stamp to this and make it a mini project for yourself.

Keep the style simple. I cannot state this enough that you don't have to have a complex style you would be amazed what a simple style will do with the right colours used. Let the icons and images do the talking, it will be the images/icons that break out a style and from experience visually superior icons and images will make a mediocre looking style look great.

As stated above, If i have the time tomorrow I will pop into the travel agents and steal a few booklets from them and pretend I'm interested in taking a holiday and scan some imagery and colours for you so you have a foundation to build from pending your up to the task in creating a site that you are proud of instead of one your merely settling with.