Here are a few tips you might want to use ~

• Never put something on your site for the sake of it or to make your site look bigger and better because its usually obvious and makes your site look worse.
• Try to use a few different graphics like siggeys and enters (see my graphics site) they can make your site more bright and interesting.
• Get a few banners and buttons (see my graphics site) made and ask around for people to link you with them to try and get your site herd of then you will have more and more people on your site.
• You can also get your site herd of by telling people to visit it in guestbook's and tag boards (always check the owner of the site hasn't already said not to though because not everybody likes that)