San Francisco,ca local (Site Check)

this is a site im doing for a san francisco street preformer its about 70% tell me what you think about it

www.sstapdancin.cjb.net

and if you havent check out my site

www.cosmoeonelabs.cjb.net

:D

Regarding the first one, really liked it.
Simple and concise.

However, try to allow more space for content instead of the image on the left.

Just my 2 cents worth...

I think the its pretty good....i like how the first one is nice and simple but still has alot of designing taste to it....and as for your site im not sure i like it to much...its just kinda cut off at higher resolutions like mine **1280x1024** but its a good concept...

It seems like I'm always the one to like the other. I live about 30 miles from S.F and I'd say number 2 fits the street preformer scene alot better than 1. Just from what I've observed from around town I just get this S.F vibe from the second one.

I'd like to add however that I don't think the font you used for the second one works well though. It's hard for me to read and I don't think it goes with everything that you have there.

time for an old-school charm critique...

i like it a lot! here is why:

-nice colors!
-love the large photo on the homepage (is that actually him or is it stock art? A++ to you if it is actually him!)
-love the newspapers on the 'in news' page
-seems like 90% of the sites posted here are people's personal design sites. it is refreshing to see something that is actually interesting and different!

here is what i would change...
-size your images in the html. i didn't view source, but it doesn't appear that you have. (getting the annoying jumpy effect as the page loads)
-are you using image ready? don't. cut it up by hand. this thing is overly complex for no reason.
-build the pages to expand. the photo on the 'about' page is breaking up. the articles are annoying to read/print because the user has to keep hitting next, next, next, next. web pages are made to scroll. every single page does not have to be above the fold.

overall i like it! it could stand to be cleaned up a bit.