Grey Duck

Hello Kirupinians. I have had Kirupa.com as my homepage for quite sometime now. A good friend of mine and I are attemping to build a website for a small media co. us. it will be www.greyduckmedia.com not up yet I am looking for tips on how to make our site as noobless and non-nausiating (is that a word?) as we can. any blunders or common mistakes most noobs usually make pointed out would be great.

Jb