Like the way you blended the face into nature and background! Creative.

I like the look, but you've made the visual elements a little too large. Same with your Retro version, too. I think they'd be far more successful if you shrank the image elements so that they're not so overwhelming. The content is the most important part, always.

The rural version looks pretty good, yet I do agree that the elements may be too large. But I think they are okay because most of the information is "above the fold." Also, the rollover colors are pretty hideous. That pinkish-red and lavender has to go.

The retro version looks neat, but those picture elements are way too huge. People hate scrolling down to read information. And virtually all your info on the rural version is "below the fold." This is the only I think absolutely needs to be addressed.

Otherwise, everything looks great. Very professional treatment of the photos.

CalvinCarl.com

It could have been better!!!

The lack of footer bothers me. Also text is too big. The pinkish-red colors upset the color scheme. Otherwise great work. something you could be proud of.

You wanna be the Christopher Walken of web design? Just hang in there.
The design and the photo manipulation is really nice. It would be a shame for you to give up those skills. Finish.
As for the photos being too big and people needing to scroll... bosh. 99.9% of webpages require one to scroll. That's why there's that little wheel on your mouse.

It generally looks very good, don't think you really need the retro tab, do you? Don't get why you have the most of the same info repeated, but i may have missed something. Agreed about losing the orange and purple colours, maybe try a more sympethetic brown or greeny colour. You could add some slightly stronger colour (again brown or green) to the some of the headers and space the paragraphs a bit more too - see how it looks. I guess it could all be scaled down a touch, but thats about all i can think of really, but don't lose the dramatic effect of the face etc. Looks a lot better than some so called professional sites that are just plain blocks of info. Really cool, i wish i had that talent in web design! The links don't seem to work, but i guess that is because it is a work in progress.

The rural/retro tabs look out of place. They don't match the look of the rest of the design.
Also, the angular styling of the bottom of the navigation (which cuts of the leaf) doesn't match the more 'organic' look of everything else.

i am using a mac and colours are as on your windows pc, i don't have profiles set up, maybe thats the problem, its a home mac, but i am guessing a lot of people wouldn't sorry can't help more than that on this... the only thing i can think is maybe your not using web safe colours? As i said web design is not my thing, but hopefuly you can fix it, and/or someone else can help.

#CC98FB is the color that is bugging everyone -your "current" id on "Item one."
The yellow/goldenrod :hover color lends a really nice highlight to the otherwise dark central elements of the site. Same with the orange-crimson color of the :hover's on the first-level <li>s.