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Hi everyone!  I am a high school photographer was recently chosen to be in the HomeBased 100, and have finally had the time to sit down and actually join startup nation :).  I need to improve my website (a lot!!) so that is why i am here!!

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Hey there, Signe :-) You`re well on your way to success if, in high school, you`re seeing the excellent benefit to joining a forum like this.

One thing you could do on your Web site is change the buttons you`re using for "next" and "previous." The common symbol for next is the > sign, not the >| with the bar to the right of the angle. I thought you had only two pictures in each category, the "first" and the "end." :-) Same thing the other way, with |< being the very first, and < being previous (without the bar to the left of the angle).

Cool pics, though! What would you say your niche will be?

I love the photographs ...

Few suggestions.

1) Sell me on the front page. Instead of saying "welcome to", why not tell me why you rock? What are you offering me? Your pictures are a leap above the stupid things I took my senior year, so why not describe the benefits? Try this article: Copywriting.

2) You have a few odd places where it says something like "add text here".

3) The navigation isn`t making much sense ... it almost needs to be consolidated. From an outsider`s view, why is there "portfolio" and "college portfolio"? There should just be one button that says "portfolio" and put your pictures there.

4) I would put a watermark on your pictures so that people don`t snag them.

There`s a few other things I was thinking but that`s probably enough to get you started ...

Hello Signe and Welcome!

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Thanks so much for the advice and encouragement everyone!!

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Rich Sloan , Co-Founder, Chief Startupologist, StartupNation

And don`t forget to build a profile and upload your best images! Google crawls the profiles here, so have a nice description in your profile. You might also put together a Marketplace ad, which again gets crawled by Google.

Rich-that would be amazing, and I do have some specific ones i would love to have you include!!  Just let me know what I need to do!