I just finished putting together a specialized stock site (its only wine industry photography), and wanted your uninhibited critiques -- I've been working in a vacuum and would like opinions from folks familiar with stock sites and could spot any glaring errors I have made but am too involved to notice.  For example -- do I have too much text on the home page?  Are the categories easy to read?  Is the navigation intuitive?

I'm especially concerned because I couldn't afford the expensive stock software so had to build this pretty much from scratch -- who knows how many mistakes I've made!

Its at: http://www.vinografia.com/

TIA!!!

Slow to load front page.

I was using IE6 with a 1024 x 768 display and wityh the frontpage the last column was off the screen with the search box, maybe put that column on the extreme left instead of extreme right just in case anyone isn't using 1200x1600 or better. Or maybe just make it all fit onto a single page, would need to resize thumbs.

Nice to see to read some text whilst the thumbnails loaded. What is the default order newest first?

I would separate download prices from prints to order prices, a nice idea downloads and prints.

Any prices for extended licences??

Great watermark maybe add site's name at bottom just in case some ****** copied it and used it at least you would get some advertising until you tracked them down and cut off their thumbs.


DISCLAIMER I know nothing I have no qualifications in webdesign and my own website is a work in progress which stalled weeks ago.

Will you be accepting submissions from photographers, or is this agency exclusive for your images?

Interesting concept & a subject close to my taste buds