The slideshow image is misplaced initially, you should bump it down by default and then move it around for javascript users if needed.

Also the first delay is too long, I navigated away intially before the slide faded over.

You've declared as XHTML strict – w3c says 51 errors – but you've failed to self-close at least 2 tags in the header …

Over all I like the design, but it's still quite masculine.

Last “tip” (take it or leave it) you're kitten shadow at the bottom doesn't match teh style of your other kit'n and should look on to the page not off it, indeed if the gaze line was towards your most important content it might help.

FWIW.

It sounds like something they'd be happy to talk about over at Hacker News. Maybe check for related links there. (http://news.ycombinator.com)

I do have a question that we've been struggling with recently:

Do you know of any known, useful metric by which a 'brand' or 'website', or a 'web application', or even a 'business entity' (such as an LLC, for instance) can be appraised of it's worth?

For instance, when you re-brand a business entity such as this one, do you know

A. How much the re-branding initiative costs overall,

B. Approximately what you consider the business (or website) to be 'worth' before the project,

and,

C. What the business (or website) is subsequently valued at after the investment in rebranding.

My firm is currently developing a system by which we can fairly and accurately establish reasonable estimates of site/brand/business valuations, and we're having a tough time because many projects are much smaller than the established market recognizes.

We feel that the sites in question hold considerable value for their owners, even if they are not massively popular like TwitBookSpaceGoogPokerStarzWhatEver is; they get steady streams of high-quality, discerning visitors that are sincerely interested in the content, they don't have a lot of overhead in terms of hosting or server hardware, they have solid, recognizable logos, typography, & content, consistent and acceptably “catchy” brandnames and/or domain names, and aren't shabby on Web 2.0 functionality like tag clouds, social networking widgets, & regularly updated content that auto-refreshes the site when the owners get too busy to post original work.

Do you have any advice? What do you do, when a business person who owns a website asks you to place a value on the website, or, to make it even more complicated, do you get asked to appraise, say, businesses who own not just one domain, but rather, collect 'portfolios' of websites and operate them under the corporate umbrella provided by the primary (typically incorporated) business entity?

Anyway, I know that's asking a lot of questions that might not fall directly into your business model, but I'm sure if you haven't been asked to guess what a website is 'worth' yet, you'll be asked sooner, rather than later.

Thanks!

- Mark

We also use jQuery, which is a wonderful library for handling common javascript tasks.

Best,