Why dont you add some Music or some Flash or more Java code to liven the site up?
I prefer to concentrate on site content, rather than the initial appearance. IMHO too many websites use unnecessary music, distracting graphics and other gimmicks to disguise a lack of in-depth content. Apart from a couple of small bits of Java, the site was written entirely in basic HTML using Notepad, hopefully keeping the code to a minimum and enabling it to load as quickly as possible.