Portfolio site feedback / google verification problems PLEASE ADVISE.

Firstly I have an iweb designed illustration/photography site which I would greatly appreciate feedback on (ease of use, loading problems etc...etc...):
http://www.matt-dawson.co.uk/
Cheers for any constructive comments. I've been getting sections of the browser background not loading in first time on Safari...does anyone else find this, suggestions...?
Further to this, a number of related questions (I'll keep it short and sweet, I know to many they may be tired old questions but I've searched old topics and despite everything I'm still puzzled...please advise).
problems getting listed on google: 1,2,3. FYI my site has been running for 2 months now.
1)which URL do I try to list with google? My site is forwarded from an NTL homepage:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.jdawson
to my domain provider. Do I try to get google to list my www.matt-dawson.co.uk site (as I've been trying to) or must I try to list my ntl homepage...? If the latter is the case how do I ever get my concise .co.uk URL to be listed on Google...?!
2)Tried both methods of google verification for www.matt-dawson.co.uk to no avail. The HTML file approach gives me the message "404 error, status of 200 (ok) in the header" so I followed googles advice RE this and opted for the Meta tag approach which also refuses to work. I've opened the iweb index.html in text edit (with ignore rich text clicked) and tried to insert the metatag where google said to but despite many attempts trying different possible insertion points in the text, no luck. Can anyone make the 'simple' even simpler for me...?
3) finally, I understand from looking at past topics that even by typing my site name in this forum I have increased my chances of google eventually finding me as this forum gets crawled... is that correct...? I don't have contacts with websites that would link to me so that avenue is closed to me at present...
Sorry if anyone feels I'm treading over old ground but this is really foxing me... the brilliant iweb only holds your hand so far before you have to fend for yourself!
I'd very much appreciate anyones advise. Many thanks! Matt
1.8GHz G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)
1.8GHz G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)
1.8GHz G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the Discussions, Matt. Regarding your website -- I found having to always click on HOME or the Back button an annoyance. I realize it looks more "arty" to omit the menu, but it serves a purpose: to efficiently navigate between sections of your site.
When arriving at a section, you show the section name as a reminder -- except at the INFO section. You may want to consider including "INFO" both for orientation and consistency.
And at that section you have the text: "(Click here to open an email message)". You may want to consider using the Mail app's "stamp" icon instead and enabling that as a link to the mail app -- it would be easier to see on the screen and a bigger target to click on. You could optionally add a short title such as "Email me".
Same at the Illustration section -- "(for link to Amazon click here)" -- you could use instead an Amazon logo button and perhaps a short title.

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