Hey this is a site i made, does it look pro. or like a cheapy crappy site.

www.Riermannphotos.com

Looks very nice, but get rid of the splash page, it's not good if you're at all concerned with search engines.

For the most part, you've done a nice job. HOWEVER, you're using <font> tags ?? AAAAAGGGHHHH! !! You've used CSS, now get rid of those moldy old <font> tags and style your text with CSS ! You have 52 code warnings, almost all of them are coming from those nasty <font> tags.

I would lose the italics on the body text, and just leave it on text such as that 'signature' line. Paragraphs of text written in all italics is difficult to read.

On your navigation, you might want to consider bolding the text on hover, or at least underlining it. Some people with visual impairments might miss the change in the text color on hover, the red color doesn't really stand out.

Overall a nice job, nice design That site pal is a little freaky but as long as you can turn off the sound it's ok .

If I was going to hire a photographer, I would choose not to hire you after seeing your site. Its decently designed but I would get rid of the different themes you have going. Either go entirely with the gren/brown or entirely with the blue. Also if you have a domain why are you still using (dot)bravehost.com

"like a cheapy crappy site."

Remove the bevel and incomplete/cluttered look and you'll be good to go.

Wow. I'm sorry to say this but I think it completely unprofessional. I didn't like the splash page, people talking to me without my authorization (there were two sitepals talking at the same time on mine), and all the ads. Definitely needs improvement.

Needs improvement; the image on the splash page shouldn't have a border, and clean up your page. Keep on working at it!

The whole.. flash guy talking to me.. Definitely a huge creep factor. =(

same as mostof the above. unprofessional, ditch the slash page.

the site pal isnt that bad need it not to auto talk.
- also at the end of the recording it sounds like they cough or mumble something. u need a cleaner recording.

and for the love of god DO NOT HAVE POP-UPS!
have ads yes, but only repitable ones. pop-us scream not gd. to me.
and very annouying. i wouldnt have even looked if i was a customer because of that.

also ditch bravenet. u have a domain use it.

Also, if you would be interested in hosting,
with no forced ads or links at a reasonable AND negotiable price.
please contact me.
Email: admin@dansgalaxy.co.uk
MSN: dansgalaxy@hotmail.co.uk

Dan.

Looks a tad cheap I must say...Pop-ups ruin whatever experience I would've had. Regardless of the design that's there...

jeeze... I guess i will work on it alittle...I am going to make an entirely new one, and then see if its better.

You can keep the splash page if you make its design consistent with the one on the main pages.

Good luck on redesigning!

ok, it is all new. now the splash page will be gone soon, but i have a domain name and i dont like the web builder. So i will get rid of it soon. please checkout the site and let me know. i tried taking advise and making it look good....

www.RiermannPhotos.com

Must ... loose ... splash ... screens.

Nobody is going to hire you for a wedding without seeing your previous work. The "click here to enter gallery" page is a minor hurdle between people and your previous work. Bridezilla wants you to bend over backwards for her convenience, not the other way around.

I like the background image of plenty of sky and cloud, with the canyon underneath. But you need consistency. Either use it throughout, or not at all. You could use a box behind the thumbs in the gallery so they don't clash so much with the background, if you want to go that route, but for it to vanish on some of the pages in your site, just doesn't work.

I can't open your site... so it's impossible to review.

ok sooo much better.

in some places the text is hard to read because of the background...

also just a small thing i think you should centre the flash photo things just looks better...

Dan

In the gallery section pictures on the right hand side dont fit the layout! It should be fix.

You're also loading full res images as thumbnails...You should crop out some thumbnails so they load 10x faster and then link them to the full res image.

Some pictures and other objects are hanging off the left side...I'm using FireFox

riermann I looked at you gallery and I noticed that when there are 8 pictures on page the background image is shorter than what you need so I suggest 2 things:
1. get rid of two pictures from each page and make an extra page for the removed pictures
or
2. decrease the size of the pictures and keep the 8-picture structure