I've just published my first website. There are still lots of images to add and a few tweaks to be done but I would be very interested in general opinions on the style and content.   

www.akmacretouch.com

style regular, content looks ok for now

I love everything in it

Any other useful observations?

Nice! It's very clean and well put together. Scratch the italics on the services page it makes it hard to read. Italics should be reserved for qoutes only such as on the about page.

Otherwise very good.

Tom

I've scratches the italics: thanks Tom. I don't know how I missed something so obvious.

It might be interesting to set up a few test pages with the current white along with darker backgrounds and try them on some test groups. Or just set up a poll and ask people to vote their preference.

Thanks Peano,

I'm interested in the poll idea. How would I go about doing that? If that sounds like a stupid question it's because I'm new to this critique forum.

a k

I like white. It works well with most beauty images. Black background darkens the whole image, creates the illusion of a harsher contrast and deeper shadows in the image. At least that is how I see it. Beauty, weddings, fashion, anything that is meant to look clean looks better against white IMO.

Thanks Peano,

I wan't thinking of going that public - I thought you meant an MM poll.

a k

Very nice. I hope you have a pre-post option on every image. I found it on some but not others and, of course, viewing a retoucher's portfolio, that's what we're looking for.

Very clean.

I've added some more pre/post options, because a number of people have suggested the same thing. I was in two minds about it with some images because I felt that the retouches hopefully spoke for themselves, and also I feel a little bit uncomfortable about the unfavourable contrast of before and after images.
Regarding the white background - there are definitely some specific images which will look better on black, grey or even a coloured background, but I think white works for the majority of my images and gives the overall feel I'm after.