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Hey I like the new buttons you've used! You even have a drop down button for your galleries thats really cool. I like it.

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com

Yup, you're getting there.

Sublimity has covered some good advice.

My thoughts are these:

1) On the home page, your welcoming text is too small and difficult to read. I'm reffering to...

I'd make this text white and a pt larger in size. It's hard to read against a black background, and even with glasses on I had to move real close to the screen to read it.

2) The Navigation at the top is great, but the 'Gallery' button should take you to the main gallery page if you click on it before navigating to the items in the drop down menu.

I assume you're thinking of adding other sections, which is where I see the drop menu come in use but for someone who doesn't know how to navigate sites efficiently (or are click-happy) may click before the drop menu appears.

Hope that helps

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Phil Diggle - Freelance Graphics Designer, Full Time University Student and Novice Photographer!

Camera Kit - Sony A200K 18-70 DT | Minolta 70-210 AF 'Beercan' | Sony 50mm f/1.8 | Jessops Flash Gun

http://www.phildiggle.co.uk | Flickr Photo Portfolio - Working Progress

It's looking better and better every time I visit! Nice job!

- Bjorn -

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Leica M9-P (my article on Camera Labs) | Leica D-Lux 5 | 50mm Summilux

better each time I check

One small thing I noticed now: Don't color the used links blue (in the Gallery index that is) - just leave them the same color as before if you clicked them.

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Thank you all for the advice and comments its been very helpful.

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Sony alpha 300 18-70mm
Canon 40d 17mm-85mm 50mm f1.8
http://www.joncharlesphotography.com

Hi All
Things have progressed from when I last posted, the website has changed to a business site for my portrait photography. Please critique

Thanks

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Sony alpha 300 18-70mm
Canon 40d 17mm-85mm 50mm f1.8
http://www.joncharlesphotography.com

Very impressive! Heres what i would do to improve: crop the top 1/5 of the background image off (lovely image if i might add) so we have a more modern/manageable ratio to work with. On my 15" laptop the "HOME PRODUCTS. . . " buttons go right over the the eyeball. I'm guessing this would look better on a 24" screen but not everyone has that luxury. you need to make your site flexible so that it looks great on all screens. I would stick with a fixed size for the background image.

Also I think you need a new logo. Right now it looks like it was a water mark. the C looks like a copyright symbol (©) and the font tracking isn't great, and I'm just not a fan of all capped fonts that use smaller caps for the not capitol letters. If your gonna use all caps just use all caps get rid of those small caps. if that makes any sense.

I think your on the right track though, keep us posted.

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com