Visually appealing, but here are some constructive criticisms;
- Using full size images for thumbs is a bad idea. You should load the thumbs, and either load the full images on the fly (when requested) or in a separate preloading entity.
So instead of pre-loading when you create the thumbs (which lets the user know its ready) you preload seperately... I don't see a benefit or reason? Furthermore, thats built into the tool and would require more than my puny brain to compute!
- It is bad usability design to force the user to scroll down to pick an image, and scroll up to see it; this is a really bad mistake, and spoils the effect of what would be a fairly nice lightbox site.
I may have another play with lightbox, but I do prefer swinging my mouse around the nav on this one. I'd rather make the nav fit on the screen, will have a think
- Talking of lightbox, I suggest instead of showing the full size image inline, you have them appear as and when needed in a lightbox-style floating DIV element.
Perhaps some combination of the nav from this that I like and lightbox image display... hmmm, this could be a good idea actually... cheers, now im going to lose more sleep playing
- Also, you specify in the page schema that it is Strict HTML, when it doesn't seem to be (EDIT: I ran it through the validator, it isn't valid).
Validation is on the todo list but thank you for the reminder, its pointless before its been tested and finalised though, which is what this thread is for
- Fade effect is nice, but seems fairly inefficient - maxes out my Firefox thread just by waving my mouse over all the images. I guess this is down to using jQuery?
Why shouldn't it use the processing power you have? I would guess that if you are mousing around the nav then you probably aren't in the middle of an intensive game of supreme commanderIn testing this doesnt use much power on my not-very-powerful pc and doesnt slowdown or anything even with PS open, media playing, WOW minimised and several other things chewing on system resources.
- Your title is an image, when it doesn't need to be. There is hardly any text on the site that says who you are and what the theme of the page is. If you're not looking for search engine traffic, this isn't much of a problem.
Meta info and the like comes under the same "tbd" as validation, its not really needed yet.
- You declare a <div class="info"> without terminating at the end, causing content overflow problems in Safari and Firefox 1.5.
Cheers
- The text at the bottom is composed of really poor English.
huh? slight over use of commas, hehe, but other than that what's "really bad" about my Engrish?
I think you've given me an idea that I quite like... but I'll play tomorrow, too darn tired now!
I'll rethink the wording after the image/nav is all sorted so that at least one person likes it
Perhaps I'll reconsider then. I don't know how I'd make it buffer the full size images after loading all the thumbs :S this is getting out of hand 
Hopefully the fading will be more efficient since its so much less code doing it this way... time will tell.
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