Hi Froglegs.
Apologies if any thing I mention now was mentioned before.
Also if I dwelve too deeply into this.
Please treat my suggestions and observations as personal and subjective, instead of de-facto standard.
Hope they all help at least some bit, so here it goes:
1. Employing Images instead of Normal Text
not ideal.
For a wide number of reasons including:
* search engine unfriendly
* accessibility problems
* users can't resize font size
* if not done well - looks v grainy
2. Employing Images with no ALT Text
ALT text, is 'alternative text'
expressed inside the web page code
it tells the browser what text to show - as a substitute for the image.
ALT Text makes the website:
* search engine friendlier
* more accessible / user-friendly
3. More 'SEO' needed
The code behind your website could be made more "search-engine friendly".
How this could be achieved?
Plenty of material can be found on this site, links to tutorials, etc .. that deals with the subject of 'SEO'
4. Logo tidying-up
Your logo "Le Tilleul" needs to be made less grainy and blend more seamlessly with the background.
How to achieve that? I don't know.
5. "Logo Phrase" - Make it into normal text
The text next to the logo "In the peaceful deux sevres region of .."
instead of an image, I would use text.
6. Functional Menu
When you hover over a menu item, it should highlight and/or change colour and/or turn bold / become underline.
That sort of thing.
Moreover. Some people also change the menu item, to indicate they are at a certain page.
Most websites have menus that behave like this. Makes it more 'user-friendly'
7. Click makes images larger
Your selling points are your photos. Very nice photos btw.
So much so the temptation is to click on them to see if they enlarge.
So if I were you - I would code to do exactly that.
8. Contrast
Very little contrast (between foreground text / background) could cause trouble for a percentage of visitors.
I think it's about 10% of the population (or more?) have some problem with eyesight: colourblinded, fuzzy sight, etc
Very little contrast can make the experience harder.
This colour contrast checker could help a bit then:
http://juicystudio.com/services/luminos ... tratio.php
Having said all that. There are some 'web accessibility' advocates that believe way too much contrast is also a bad thing (ie very very black vs very very white)
So a balance should be reached somewhere somehow.
There are probably other points to consider. But I will start with these 8 ..
Hope that helps.