Miss Ashley, I love your graphics!!!!!! :)

Infact, I love the graphic with the lady devil on there..))) If you should find something with a black woman, let me know!!!

Mel

I don't like animated gifs and/or stars. I like information and tasteful pics. And I don't like flash. My honest opinion, no offense!

One more thing that I REALLY hate is comet cursors trailing across the screen. Nothing replaces the original, lol

Ashley,

I think I would like the eyes more if the animation was a little slower. Beyond that, I prefer this site to any site where the designer is in love with flash animation.

For the flash lovers, why don't you assume that we want to skip the flash and leave it off as default?

thirsty

A wise woman once told me to think about who you want your site to appeal to and then design it based on what you think their interested in seeing there.
I agree and disagree.
I think your site should reflect your personality for sure.
From your site I get the feeling your playful and creative .
If thats the look your going for then congrats you have achieved it !

Everyone has an opinion.  What you really need to ask yourself is whether someone's comment is just another opinion or if there something about such an opinion that might spur you to change the site to draw in more clients.

I would always recommend to anyone running a business web site to present a more professional appearance, yet still find ways to let their personality show through.  At the end of the day, ease of use, accessibility, simple aesthetics, and reach are the most important things for any web site, especially if the end goal is dollars.

I'll give you some examples of how your own site could be improved:

** Yes, get rid of the animated graphics.  They might be fine on the home/welcome page, but are distracting when trying to read text.

** Purple text on a black background is significantly harder to read than black text on white.

** Presume most people are viewing your pages at a 800x600 screen resolution - you want to make sure the brunt of the info on any given page is within the "top fold" ot that size screen; meaning, the information available to someone without needing to scroll.

** Don't put pages which are just placeholders stating "coming soon".  If someone visits the site more than once and still sees that "coming soon" or "under construction" page, they'll presume you don't pay attention to your own web site and, therefore, will think twice about doing business with you.

** The web is all about information.  Although your site has no reason to be too big, it would have a greater appeal if you had some more textual information on there, or more reasons for people to come back.

** Use italic or bold text for emphasis, not as the style for the main body of text.

** Be consistent with the fonts and layout throughout pages, especially in title graphics.

** Clean up your HTML and graphics so that the pages load faster.

** Don't say in 20 words what you can say in 10.  Web audiences are fickle, they want their info fast or will get bored and leave.  Use shorter and clearer sentences.