Please review/crit my graphic & web design website

[DannyMurphy]

I have just moved over to Oz and have just revamped my website converting it from a static site to building a custom Wordpress theme, and filling it with new content and a new blog section.

http://www.danny-murphy.com (http://www.danny-murphy.com/)

I would be really grateful for any feedback.

Cheers,
Danny

[alexpooley]

Danny, overall I like the aesthetic. Though I find it a little confusing that you reference West Sussex in the footer?

I guess I can offer two points of advice...

1) Someone very wise once told me that the Cooper font is left to works of parody and other devious tom-fooleries. Maybe a typophile would like to elaborate here?
2) I think you have a good base, but I think you need to nail some sort of personality to the site. Envisage your market reading your site and imagine what they would expect from the copy/aesthetics/etc. If you think your market is "everyone" then you need to search deeper.

Good luck! (and welcome to Oz)

[DannyMurphy]

Danny, overall I like the aesthetic. Though I find it a little confusing that you reference West Sussex in the footer?

Thanks for the comments, I will take them into consideration.

Re the West Sussex reference I still have this in the footer as I am still working for some of my UK clients and UK law states you should show your register company details on your website.

Again thanks for the critique,
Danny

[jexley]

Hey dude,
On this page: http://www.danny-murphy.com/websites the lightbox graphics are under the <h2> tags on FF v3.

Other than that, I really like the layout and the look-and-feel, though I agree with the Beagle that your choice of font says alot. I'm no typographer, but if there was a font called "OnlyTakeMeKindOfSeriouslyButStillSeriously" I would totally do my site up in it.

I like the navigation and the way you've broken up your site's sections. I like (and admire) that you've got your pricing on there and it all seems to make sense to me.

I also like (and admire) that you're updating your blog with pictures of kangaroos doing it, something I wish I could've done when first coming here, though ditch the "Hello World" post now that it's a for real blog.

Welcome Danny, and best of luck to you.

[DannyMurphy]

Hi Jexley

Thanks for the comments.

When you say the Lightbox is below the <h2> tag do you mean that SFIR H2 tag appears in front of the images that pop up? I have had this before on other sites because flash renders at the upper most level. Can I ask a bit more about what FF version / Platform you are running on. I am using FF V3.08 on a mac at everything appears fine.

Was a difficult call being fresh off the boat wasn't sure what to charge / local acceptable hourly rate. But wanted potential clients to have a rough costing before they made an enquiry.

Really appreciate your review,
Danny

[DannyMurphy]

Hi Jexley

Been testing on a few different machines and found the problem. I needed to add wmode: 'transparent' to the sIFR javascript. I have had this before with live chat integrated app so luckily I knew where to start.

Cheers,
Danny