need critique

[solidgold]

hi,
Please critique my possible next update to my site - Aesthetic Design | Web Development -
please bare with me in terms of the loading page, it's just there because the page relies so heavily on images and i still need to style it.
Code-wise the site is valid xhtml and valid css and as far as i can tell works fine in FF and IE7 on windows, if you have any problems in other browsers please tell me.
Currently I only have the homepage, so i'm looking for a critique of the design, rather than the navigational structure, also i've not got round to making rollovers for the navigation yet.
Basically the site is before alpha, its basically just a rough idea of what I want to make, but what do you think? what can i improve on?
thanks a lot,
Solidgold

[lolly]

Look's too much like Gordon Mac's site, sorry

[solidgold]

who?

[solidgold]

Welcome to gordonmac dot com (Gordonmac dot com) that?! are you mad?

[Hoyer]

It's what I thought as well, it's too well know to be looking anything like it

[solidgold]

how come i've never heard of it?

[lolly]

Originally Posted by solidgold

Welcome to gordonmac dot com (Gordonmac dot com) that?! are you mad?

I ensure you I'm not mad just giving my opinion which is what you asked for, not a good idea to offend someone who's answered your post.

[solidgold]

how is that offensive?
i was just surprised to have it compared with that site, as the only similarity is the countryside theme - which is often used and is not exclusively owned by gordon mackay, other than that there is almost no similarity - the fonts, logo, layout, navigation everything else is different... plus mine doesn't have a giant cow.

[lolly]

I stand by my first though it's too much like a well known site if you don't like my opinion don't ask

[Hoyer]

how can too people think the same thing but still be wrong!