Keep 'em coming folks, this is useful stuff.
Probably sensible to give a bit of background, it might help to explain some of the seeming inconsistencies. As I've mentioned in another thread, Andalucia Rentals is run by a family who have been visiting the area from well over twenty years, own three properties in the area themselves and rent out properties on behalf of friends. As an entity AR has been up and running for about two years, but more as a hobby than a serious venture.
The new sites are an attempt to make it a more serious proposition. When I joined they had a small website, built in Front Page, which was attempting to do exactly what Firebug describes, work both as a rentals and a sales site. Although I've never built a website before, I have had plenty of input in my previous jobs, so when they said they were looking to revamp their website I volunteered myself for the job!!
So part of my problem is having to move them away from the mindset of the past few years, which I'm having to do in baby steps. I managed to convince them that, if they were serious about wanting to pursue both markets, it was imperative to split the rentals and sales sides completely; the confusion that you mention stems from the fact that, at present, it has been good politics to retain some of the original copy from the old site - ultimately I want to get to the stage where the only mention 'sales' on the website is on the navigation bar and the dedicated page linking to the sales site (good search engine practice I am led to understand).
So the .co.uk site was my first attempt at a website, which is why the .eu site is a lot better; whew, now I understand the phrase 'steep learning curve'! As soon as I can get them to agree I'm hauling the .co.uk site into that same format!
Picking up on a few specific comments. Firebug, you mention the disabled right-click, that's there at the insistence of the lady boss; I like your idea about adding the url, I'll float that as an alternative idea. Re. the gifs, I'm not happy about the image quality either, but it's a balancing act between getting in all the pictures that we need and keeping the pages as clean as possible; another consideration is the loading time of the page if I was to pack it out with jpgs - I'm looking at other ways to approach this problem.
Could you explain what you mean about the 'live text for the subnav'? I also like the idea of losing the subnav on the home page, it could give me the impetus I need to dispose of that splash screen!
We're all sort of evangelical about the area here, I hope that's coming across in the site.
EDIT - Ah, I now understand some of the confusion. I seem to have uploaded some revised sales site page to the .eu rentals page. Whoops!! - EDIT
Many thanks
it's a really useful site, great job!