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It seems a bit busy to me. The text is a bit small for my 46 year-old eyes, but I'm also happily married for 20 years, so I'm not going to be a client...LOL!

Your title page is too long and repeating keywords is useless. Maybe use "Perth & Western Australia Wedding Photographer" instead? If you want to add your name, add it to the end like this: "Perth & Western Australia Wedding Photographer - Memories of Tomorrow Photography".

BTW, in your title tag, you misspelled 'Austalia".

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I agree with Mike, you can still have information easily accessible without looking busy. If anything cleaning it up should make it more accessible. Chances are your clients won't have much to compare against either.

The site is very slow loading here and I can't see anything on there which should cause that.

I think you have too many options in your menu for instance, some can be put into drop downs off others. All the contact informtaion in the header can go on the contact page. The "linked in" has the in dropped off outside the header box too.

Why have engagement shoot separate from pricing and packages. I'd have pricing as one menu item and then weddings and engagements as sub drop down menus. The Extras seems like something that should be with the packages as well imo. Availability, locations, recommended suppliers, could all go under "booking options" or something.

I'd also be tempted to drop your side bars. The about you box info can go in your about menu page. Testimonials can be a sub menu of that as well. The ones on the right side are just to the portfolio and news pages too? Can lose both of those as again replicated in the menu.

I see you already dropped the long list of town names you had at the bottom on the home page which was a good move. One idea you could have if you want to rank for wedding photography in those locations, is if you get time visit some of the places and take some location shots for wedding ideas. You can then write these up in your news section and they will be good pages/articles for SEO.

Lastly I think the overall page contrast is a bit low. Clicking on availability for example the title of the page gets a bit lost. "2011 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY AVAILABILITY" the colour doesn't stand out very well on the white background and making it bigger probably wouldn't hurt. It is overpowered by the header and all the info in that. Combine that with cleaning up the header, having less options in the menu and your pages will be clearer imo. Your eye just isn't drawn at all to that area of the page where the relevant information is. The main site logo and sidebars draw the most attention and the menu stands out more as well.

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The design is quite busy. Too much stuff everywhere. I feel like I'm on a shopping website. Simple design and layout is best instead of trying to have something everywhere on the page.

As lots of other people have said it's very busy, that's what I would work on first.

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that is MUCH better Peter, good job

the menu is much cleaner and the user isn't overloaded with too many options

the tweaks to the header have also helped a lot and all the contact info doesn't appear so overwhelming in conjunction to the other changes, the extra whitespace around your logo was a good move

one thing that did confuse me though was your portfolio pages, the book style display thing
there is just an image on the right and I was waiting ages for something to load in the space on the left and I completely ignored the previous and next page buttons
the fact it says page on them is a bit misleading as page made me thing of webpage rather than a photo album page
shift the facebook and twitter things right over to the right hand side, change the "page" buttons to remove page, add left and right arrow graphics and stick them right in the middle, where they are placed now doesn't help - if you can also make it so that you can change pages using the right and left arrow keys on the keyboard that would be good as well, though even just moving them to the middle would be good

perhaps something like "use the arrows below to flick through the album" on the left hand side may also be a useful prompt, which then gets covered up by the first "page"

lastly on your news page, the bottom item overhangs the bottom of the site and sticks out into the footer

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Google Chrome^^

I just checked it in firefox 4 it is fine there thought noticed a couple of other issues

if you have scripts (and therefore javascript) disabled your drop down menus don't work and the portfolio doesn't either

not many people will have them disabled (I only do in firefox for testing purposes for users who don't), so while not a massive problem you may want to look at solutions that degrade nicely, or for the menu just use css and not javascript at all - js is just for making the menus animate (fade in / slide in) css hover they just instantly appear but work with javascript off, you can then just use js to animate the menus for those who have them on

still from the point of view of making them apple/non flash compatible you are on the right track

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