jbregar
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I'll pile onto the load time thing. It kinda takes forever... and I'm on 100Mb/s cable.
Your images probably need to be compressed a bit more. The "full background image" thing is one of those trends that sounded like a good idea when someone who knew what they were doing did it... but it's hard to do well and maintain a reasonable load speed. You have to pick images that compress well and do a good job compressing the living crap out of them to get them down in size while still looking good.
You're also making a lot of requests (64) for various CSS, JS and image files. I'd try to get that down a bit. My previous employer has a WordPress plugin to handle a lot of that stuff... https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-asset-optimizer ...that's assuming the template author is enqueueing scripts and styles correctly.
Design-wise, it's pretty decent. The typeface you used for the "Nathan Robert" part doesn't really match the quality of the rest of the typography. Also, ditch the underline. Underline is one of those things that you should only use when you absolutely-positively HAVE to for some specific purpose... because underline is typographically ugly and readability suffers. Also, ditch small caps. In order to not look goofy as hell, small caps need to be used correctly. That means not just scaling down the "normal" capital letter AND using them when typographically appropriate (acronyms, abbreviations and anywhere else you need capital letters for grammatical correctness but want them to blend with lowercase text).
On the fine art prints page, if you can I'd switch the fine art america site you're framing to better match the page it's on. The big white box is pretty ugly. Also, don't set text in all uppercase "HERE" and saying "click HERE for XXX" is generally kind of lousy for accessibility and SEO. It'd be better if it was rephrased to say "You can also see my fine art prints on _my_other_web_site_"... or better yet, just have one web site. What's the purpose of the other one? Finally, don't open another window to take them to the other web site. New windows break the back button and are user-hostile. If they want to come back, they'll hit the back button (or click on one of the links you should have provided to get them back).
Finally, in your "About" text, you switch between the first and third persons. Graf one is first person (I, me, etc.), second graf is third person ("Nathan Robert Englbrecht") then the third is back to first person. I'd suggest switching the second graf to first person because I think referring to yourself in the third person comes off kind of pretentious... but that's just me.
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