My sincere congratulations Steven - I really love this site and have come away feeling pretty hungry too! Good colour board - nice continuity throughout the pages - great looking food, but I guess we can't thank CoffeeCup for that part!

Well done - this should be great for the pizza parlour popularity and business.
Now I am off to have some dinner!

Janys . . . . . if you still got my email address. Mail me when you can.

Thanks All,
Phill, now that I have the bugs ironed out of the flash menu maker I'm going to remove both the mouseover and link from the pictures
BigM keep up the great work. I think Phil's suggestion is pretty valid too and worth giving a try.

As for the pbackhotography, I reckon you and your son should maybe try to get around to investing in one of those neautral background drops for your portraiture. They don't detract from the actual subject and come in a variety of colours and sizes. That way noone has to worry if the curtains have been ironed or not!!

Jayns, Actually we do have a varity of backdrops (including neutral grey). The picutres that are on the site were taken when we first decided to go into business and a good friend of mine wanted some pictures of her children to send out for the holidays. At that time we were waiting for our backdrops to be delivered so we just went to a department store and purchased some curtains to get the job done on time. Now that we have the back drops we just have to get some more portrait work so I can change the pictures. Most of our work is in the sports and events area.

A friend and I did this today using Coffee Cup VSD!

http://www.diannebreeze.com/diannebreeze.com/index.html

She is an artist, and has lots of design flair, whereas I have none, but can play with computers. Not all the buttons work yet, and there is a shop area to be made, but I love the way it's going, hope you do too!

Very pleasing design. Looks good. Only thing I question is a few pages with many thin stacked frames to contain numerous lines of content. All the frames appear to "busy it up" and distract from the otherwise clean appearance.

Janet
Nice looking site. My only suggestion would be to cut down the kb of the background image which takes some time to download and shows up a few milli seconds after the rest of the page. I have a fairly fast connection at 2.2 Mbps but for anyone with a slower connection that would perhaps not get seen at all before they pass on to the other pages. Let's face it - you might have left the background image thinking that would be the first thing users would see before the rest downloads. As in actual fact it is the last thing - so your users do not actually see what the background image is anyway - at this point you could just as easily use a textured or plain background.
For the textured bg you could take a corner of the image and turn it into a small 100 or 150x150 tile and adapt it for seamless tiling. It would load very quickly, and still give the impression of the image you actually have.

I see what you mean, however I only have 0.5mbps connection, and it's loaded fairly quickly! I tried to reduce the pixels per inch of the background pic of the first page, and it disappeared completely, despite the graphics program stating that it was the same size only smaller pixel rate.

My friend likes the look of the boxes!

Janet, obviously I do not know exactly what settings you have on your computer with regard to the cache, but after the site has loaded for the first time, your computer will retain all the pages in the memory anyway, so any successive visits will not need to download the site content. Which is why it might seem to download quickly for you. This is not true of course for those people who visit your site for the very first time, so it is them we have to worry about.

I don't know where you live, but if there is a local internet cafe or library where you could use an internet connection, try going there to see how quickly your site downloads. Many public internet connections have an automatic setting to empty the cache so every visit to a site is a "new" one. You could do this at the home of a friend or neighbour too, providing they have never visited your site of course.

Crtl+F5 I believe dumps the page cache and forces a reload in Windows.
Try that on your page.

Same on Linux machines with Firefox J.