A quick question what kind of IDE do you use when developing?

Couple things about the sites, you might be - as you said - good with HTML and CSS, but you don't have very good design sense. The pages you've linked don't look visually appealing, at least to me.

Also you say on your page that your websites are "coded to W3C XHTML strict guidelines.", but noelvock.com uses HTML5 doctype (as everything should imo) and wildhives nets almost 30 validation errors.

It's a good start and at least you are putting yourself out there, but these would be the things you'd get burned for from my experience.