So, I too like the separation, and I love the way your nav links "pop out" on rollover. Neat effect!
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I also noticed some of your compression issues or whatnot. Suggestion: don't make them part of the background image. Go download the PNG's or the vectors (you can find them with quick google searches) and place them on top of your background. Similarly, with your email address, make it just basic text, or at least a separate image as well. Also, make it a link to your email. So... not... basic text... after all.... >_> (if you don't know, like so: <a href="mailto:
your@email.com">Link Text</a>) Also, don't forget to fix your <title>.
Finally, your body copy needs a rewrite in my opinion (as well as being broken out of the image and made just text, like the email address). At the least it has grammatical errors, but overall to me feels clunky and could have a much better flow. (I can help if you want... but I don't want to force my suggestions on you.
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So, mostly that's all just some nit-pick-y stuff, just typos/bugs, and overall I really dig the design and layout (which is the important thing here anyway). Lookin' good!
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