www.dhpdigitalphoto.com

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Take a look and let me know what you think.

www.dhpdigitalphoto.com

Thanks
Darrell

[ndsimm]

I like the layout and it loads very fast. soe of the images appear a tad dark, but that may be just my monitor at work. when I click on some of the pages and try to go back to the home page, the home link under About doesn't work
I didn't know what the color edit and magnification toolbar was at first in the top right corner, but curiosity got the best of me so I clicked....
I didn't realize the photo in the top left went to your home page until I clicked as well so maybe some alt text would help there....

[Roy]

I like it. I agree for some reason the images I looked at seemed a lttle dark but I like the way you layed out the site a lot. I like the pull downs and all the colors you used. Did you design this yourself?

[hhscr]

Thanks for the CC.
I checked the menu tags and they work OK on my end. If you dont mind try it one more time and see if the Home tag works alright.

Which images are showing up dark? When I pull it up on my screen the look fine.

I did not design the site myself. I found the template for it on the web.

[Roy]

I think it's some of the thumbnails that look a lttile dark but if you click on them they look just fine. Home page tag works on every page I went to.

[Clayton Wallace]

Darrell,

Here are several tips/thoughts in no particluar order. Hope this helps:

1. Check your images and colors on several monitors. Several are quite dark on my monitor as well.

2. At least one of the images has a large piece of what looks like lint on the lens and another spot (girl in red in hompage slideshow). Take a good hard look at all your images and make sure they are your best and in the best possible condition.

3. I don't like having to scoll to see the thumbnail images. It seems like main content and should be completely visible.

4. The zoom too makes your images look terrible. It is simple stretching your images and makes them look pixelated.

5. The link back to home shouldn't be buried in 'about'. Try to think like a client.

6. I don't understand the function of the 'website links' page. If a client wants to use google, why would they do it there?

7. I'd put a photo of you on the 'about us' link. It is, after all, about you.

8. I'm unclear why you are using people colored green/purple on some of your pages (like about and contact). Also, the nature shot on prices?

9. You need to change the titles of all of your pages so the words "photographer and artist website template" are changed to something meaningful.

10. As a start towards Search Engine Optimization, at least change the keywords in your metatags (in the head tag at the top of the code).

11. Your site relies heavily on javascript. This is a debatable practice as many browser versions have javascript turned off by default, which would wreck havoc with your design. It would be best to either not use it at all or have some alternative form of page structure and navigation so a user with JS off could at least get the just of your site content.

Hope this helps....