Rant: High Prices for Bad Quality Photography

I know extremely basic php, but I could learn more. I know how to adjust the size of certain objects by browser width in css, but I remember having issues getting things to look good and keeping proportions correct.

tiziano: No, actually the other poster visual bride provided lots of useful information without seeming like a smart aleck. I wasn't looking for blind praise.

Redid my website: Please have a look! Feedback? Opinions?

Thoughts and suggestions were addressed. I just need to redo ALL of the portfolio pictures to have white backgrounds.

That's so much better. Much cleaner. Navigation stands out better. Photos look better, because there's less clutter. The portrait portfolio (I didn't look at the others) looks good, but actual image transition is more like a blink than gradual fade. (this could be a browser thing)

It's a bit counter-intuitive having the secondary menu above the primary, but it works in a slightly unconventional way.

One minor thing; when I resize downward with Vista/FF20014, there's a point where the text (on the price etc, jumps out of the frame / container. Probably minor to fix.

Much, much, much better. Well done. and good on you for listening to what others said, and implementing what you thought would be useful.
Jon

Thanks. Unfortunately I can't test it on vista myself because I don't have any computers that run it. I'm not sure how I'd go about making that compatible, but I already don't like vista.

The site acts a little funny with firefox on my mac as well. When you resize at a certain point the text gets pushed out of the box and jumps to the side.

I like the design much better, and I think you are almost there with your website now.

Yes, firefox on my mac does the same, but latest Safari / Mac, that bit works fine. It's probably a firefox issue, rather than Vista. Don't have ie handy here, or I'd run it in that for you as well!
Jon

Yes I'm running into that consistently. I tried to fix it by using margins and other positioning controls, but when it worked for my mac it didn't work at all on Win XP. I have to think about it for a while.

Actually, that's now working Firefox /OSX. I wonder did some of us not have the refreshed css file?

(Otherwise, you must have fixed it )

EDIT: also working in Vista/IE7.006
Jon

Everything is now contained in a single tag that is involved in centering; the different elements are no longer moving independently of each other.

Very nice site.

I'd say raise the price to $200 per hour.

The only suggestion I have is to integrate the pricing into 1 step.
I really find it a bit cumbersome to have to click on the Price button then to click on the event type (weddings, Portraits).
At first I was thinking the link was broken cause nothing came up (then I figured out I had to click on the event type).

I like the new website much better, also. Clear, easy to read, professional-looking, IMHO. My only quibble would be to remove the "Please bear with us..." comments. Even if some things aren't quite finished yet, they will be soon enough and there's no need to advertise the fact. Most people probably wouldn't even notice if you don't point it out to them.

Yay I'm finally getting somewhere. Now if only the damned thing got me any more business I'd be rewarded for my efforts in a better way (money!).

Well done. Much much better.
This is a massive improvement. Your rant had a good outcome. Just remember that it will only effect your bottom line if people see the website.

The next question is how are people finding your site? Are they finding your site? How are those competitors found?
Sign up to Google Analytics for free and see what people are doing on your site and where they come from.

Thanks, I set up google analytics. I want to know how to improve my SEO so I can get to the forefront of some of the search engines with common search keywords. I have worked at it and reworked it, and I have made a different/alternate version of description, title, h1 and other tags, for each page, in order to maximize the variety of styles and wordings that can all lead to my site (different pages of it) and which might be picked up differently by search engines.