I completely agree with the above poster - I started writing my post before it was up and am now editing to reply to his comments.
Simplicity vs Simpleton is dead on! I do want to mention that finding that right amount of Simplicity to match your content can be extremely difficult and will require a lot of trial and error. Sometimes it can a simple difference between using this font or that font, size 14px font or size 12 px font, underlined or no decoration active links, etc... Go step by step to figure these things out.
He did also mention some various simple web standards (which I mention down below as well). For example, a static bottom page navi menu that is on all pages. This not only helps the visitor but aslo the more internal links your page has, the better it is for your search engine optimization.
One thing the above poster may not have realized is the site you have used to create your website. I believe it automatically resizes the images you upload using HTML /CSS, rather than resizing them at the upload and saving them at a new size. Try to find the size they are using, re-size the images yourself, and re-upload them.
On to my original post '
Hey, these will be my 2 cents.
It appears as though you have used
www.webstarts.com for your site design. This can be a good place to start, but it will serve you better in the long run to take the time to learn the finer workings of a website (view your source code and spend hours on hours learning what each thing does). The webstarts program has a drag and drop function for building websites and setting up your main design. Although this is an easy way to go about it, it creates a non-web standard website and comes with a lot of bugs. It does not create an external style sheet which ultimately will hurt the site.
Moving onto the non technical aspects of the site. The font size is way too large and the background color with the font color does not suit the black background.
You want a static navigation menu that is on each of the pages, rather than just the a single "home" link on the various pages.
The overall wording for the various content has a subtle "amateur" feel to it. It doesn't flow too smoothly and there are inconsistencies in the various grammar usage. Try running the content by a few different people for editing and find something that you like.
Font color for the content (not the nave menu this time) is hard on the eyes.
All black websites are extremely difficult to pull off. They look amazing when they are pulled off, but quite... not so good all other times.
Sorry if this sounds discouraging, but in this day and age with how viral the web 2.0 movement is and how it is slowly becoming a 3.0 reality, where CMS sites are standard and readily available, and brand and personal image reflected through one's site directly relates to their future success, taking these things too lightly could end up hurting them in the long run.
Just remember that the site design must match the site content. Content cannot outshine the design - as it will not be taken seriously, and the design cannot outshine the content, as it could appear fraudulent. You mentioned it was not a site necessarily aimed for promoting your performances to prospective clients, but you do mention professionally released or soon to be released products and if your site does not back those things up, you may not be taken seriously.
Cheers,
Eric
The first two major pieces of advice I can give you are:
first - learn about web standards and external style sheets (your CSS style sheet). These will allow you to create a website that appears nearly almost the same in all browsers and will also help you to modify your site more easily further on down the road. When viewing your source code, all of your tags' style attributes are internally coded, and almost seems as if you
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