A few things to consider:
- Change the font as mentioned earlier. A sans-serif font is easier on the eyes.
- Consider changing the color scheme - keep your yellow-on-black for the headers, footers, navigation areas maybe. But it's very hard to read yellow font on black, and without a CSS print style, it chews up a lot of ink if someone tries to print one of your pages.
- Consider learning CSS stylesheets for the structure of the page and get away from using tables. It's something I'm trying to do with my websites also.
- It might be better to use include files for your header, footer and navigation areas so if you need to make a change, it can be done in that file - and you don't have to fix each page. It will save you a lot of work in the long run.
- Use HTML special character codes - © instead of (c) for the copyright symbol.
- Your masthead is good and reflective of the team's identity, but it takes up a lot of page real estate. You might wish to make it smaller. And less content per page - strive to put the most important information "above the fold" so a viewer doesn't need to scroll to dig for it.
It's a good start towards the revised website - good luck with it!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist adding the smiley face!)