Hi John,
Personally I'm not sure whether its a good thing to have a commercial and family site together, its probably a good idea to have some sort of limited bio of yourself on a commercial site, but not all the family history.
Who-is quotes
Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service
for John Riley Photography and your .org address gives an American I.P. address. So 'Who-i's says you are a non trading individual, admittedly not that important, but from a business point of view a bit iffy? Also the new site is actually the .org one
http://johnriley1uk.org/c5/ where .org domains are usually not profit organisations or individuals.
You have no address listed on your contacts page and a virgin email address, hmmm I think business wise that you should have your domain email and I know that placing your home address on the internet is somewhat fraught with danger, so I put in john riley 1 in 'Google' and find that you have asked the same question on the pentax forum. No problems with that, but reading through have noted similar comments re the business/family thing and email etc. All the family details on the site and links tie you to the leigh-manchester area, and it wouldn't take long for someone to find your home address via the internet anyway.
I cant see any meta-tags on your home page though they are there on the services one, I know that that isn't the only way of google etc finding you, but if you are hopefully going to get business via the net, then the seo needs some work, though if the site is just for reference then its not a problem. Likewise a 'blog' is apparently a good way to increase traffic to a site probably better than your forum which appears to be family orientated at the present. In fact I reckon if you tied in a commercial site to a photography blog, you would have a good chance of getting business as you are a regular poster on the net in various forums etc. Personally I couldn't upkeep a blog on a regular basis (nothing to write about), but I don't think you would have a problem.
The site is clean and works quite well, but I haven't found any slide show of photos----oops found the flash restoration one which is cool, but the before and after would work better side by side rather than underneath as they are not that wide and would fit together. Likewise the couple beneath, 406 pixels wide would work better side by side. 95+% of web viewers are on 1024x768 or greater and all the major sites work on around 960ish pixels.
Its a bit like photo competitions this, easy to pick faults or problems in other peoples work but not your own, lol.
Oh nearly forgot, as its Sue and you maybe a joint domain of jands riley photography or similar might be more appropriate.
Phil
(will keep the ear muffs on for the back-lash)
