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cdgaskin has posted here about sites I just wanted to know what you guys think of the work we did on it ?

We just finished it now. Comments appreciated as I am on a learning curve with web design so offered to help him out ...

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The design is pretty nice. A few things though:

- I would make the menu options (Portfolio, About Me, etc.) more obvious. I didn't see them immdiately.
- "About Me" leads to a page written in the 3rd person ("Christopher has...") -- I'd stick with one or the other.
- Similarly, "About me" is nonetheless written kind of informally. Again, this is a choice, but I'd make a decision about what you really want to say. Is it important to say that you're not a member of any professional organizations? I'd just not say that at all.

Overall, though, nice.
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Thank you for the comments ! Will have a look later
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I liked the site. Simple, slick, easy to navigate.

I think you should put a mailing address on your contact page.
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"Powered by Freewebs" badge is not a good thing. Hosting these days doesn't cost much so get yourself one.

Half of the footer is not visible. There's some black bar on top of it.
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Thanks all for the input I will be looking at it again soon and chat with Chris about it some good comments made
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I like the site: very clean, easy to navigate. I agree about the personal information comment above, make it first person. I don't agree about providing an address. You already give email and telephone information. That should be sufficient. If you had a studio as your place of business that would be different. But you don't want advertise your home address to tell thieves where they can burgle expensive camera gear.
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me and fog have taken your comments and made some tweeks.

hopefully we got it now
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