Is this better than the old one?

I think it's a great start. But one thing that urks me.

The interface is kinda bulky. I would leave the top part and the navigation along with the stuff to the right of the buttons, but the thing under it doesnt really server a purpose except for eye candy.

A designer once told me that you should try to squeeze navigation and logo within the first 150 pixels of the top of the site if you are going for that type of navigation. Otherwise, in low resolutions, you are going to end up having the person staring at the navigation with your content barely or not visable at all. That along with the use of frames takes up alot of realestate on the average display.

The background color isn't all that friendly either. Make your content alot easier to read by giving the foreground some contrast over the background.

er..nice quote, NOA... (wtf?)

the site looks good but the only thing that i would recommend is preload the roll overs on the nav and stuff....other then that its pretty sweet....nice work

preloads are there, I´ve just got it on a really crappy server... LOL

i really like the top pic :D

all photoshop? or is it a photograph??

just wondering... Othwerwise anything i can think of is already said

the top has three photographs in it, modified in PS, of course..