It's a bit ironic though that each of my website designs have always been told to be a lot worse than my previous one (so I saw this comming, it happens every time), yet nobody can deny that my first website looked absolutely horrible.
I was really tricky and Internet Archive'd and found
several archived guestbooks with stuff like "great new site you got here", "Nicklas: great site.", "Love this new site.
", "I'm not gonna say "I liked the old design better", because I like this one in a different way.
", "This site design is IMO a littel bit better than the previous.", "I like this design as I liked the old one. Nah, no way... I like the new one better =)", "Think I like the new site better.
", "Hey mate!! great design, I like it! Good job", and "hey m8, I like this design best
".
I think you underestimate your web-design skillz. (But yeah that one image is pretty awful.)