Need site opinion

Ok, I'm desperate. I feel like something is off, but I don't know what. Can you dear friends look at this site
http://www.dahlingroup.com/menloparkdraftsite/
and rip me a new one. Tell me what you like, what you hate, etc. Tell me if you can figure out what the site does without me telling you. I know that's always a big one for Neil.
Let me know if you need any background on anything.
Stan

Neil
1. Good to know, will reduce font a bit. Last we met, my font size was too small, I took that to heart I guess too much and now have gone too big! but I am using ems, so the user will be able to resize text in the browser
2. will size down a smidge
3. Yes, the overhead graphic is a tad large, I can probably reduce.
- I like your suggestion of graphics changing on other pages, let's see if it's in the budget and if I have time
- I struggled with trying to 'break out of the box' on this one. That's probably why the header graphic is so large. I see so many sites with just a header box, I know that's pretty much the standard and it's not bad, but I wanted to push the envelope if I could. I still don't think I did enough to make an organic header, but it's a start.
- As you probably know from my stuff in the past, I tend to over think things. So instead of just making a web page, I always am trying to do something 'no one has done before'. Often that can lead to trouble I've found, and cause the design to fail, such as the first few iterations of the dahlin group site.
4. I agree, client is getting more pics. He should be getting actual old timey menlo park photos. will work on the other part of this suggestion, ie, not stock photos
5. Interesting, what did you have in mind? flowing text around the images? or angling them in place???
6. yes
7. ok, and I'll get back to the button frames at the end
8. good point
9. also good point, client has not been good about providing content. we really need that, I might google it.
Great comments Neil,
Ok, the big question. The buttons...
I originally had this idea to have angled buttons, kinda roughed up as you see on the site. Does everyone like that? I'm not sure if I like it or want to go to a clean nav button bar. What does everyone think? and if you like it, suggestions for improvement?
Pjones, I typically try to code for mozilla, while doing hacks for ie 6
Jim, I try to keep my code simple, not using fancy techniques hoping to assure cross browser compatibility.

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