Yeah, I supposed more people would just be interested in the free stuff so I made it easier for them to find it. My rationale was if somebody liked my work then they wouldn't mind searching a bit more for the hire me link. Perhaps I should switch them, though. It is a business after all.
That's fair enough! They may be, but I just think the hire me button should be the easiest to find as from your point of view, that's what you want people to click.
Excellent points. I've mainly been working remotely, but I am also willing to travel to the bay area to visit clients (might even move there soon). I will make some changes to that page to include my skype contact as well.
Thanks for the firefox heads up. I'll look into that. I'm embarrassed about the grammar issues. Two people have now commented about that. I have been writing a lot of the copy late at night. (part of me was expecting nobody to actually see the site for a while, too. A "launch" of a consulting site is usually 10-15 visits, in my mind)
I prefer developing in ruby/rails. I just put this site up on my small linode because I didn't need to do anything dynamic with it. The linode was already configured for PHP so I was lazy and just went with that. Might move it to Heroku after this and perhaps change it to a small sinatra site.
Why not static HTML files? I can't find anything on your site that justifies server side processing and in this sense you might be over-engineering. This is your call, though!
Your site is currently a three page site and while I appreciate unrolling would cause a little bit of code duplication, I wouldn't say it's enough to lose sleep over. In fact, you could just make it into a one page site, which might be a perfect fit for what you're trying to achieve.
Thanks for the well thought out feedback. Good call on making the "hire me" the focus in the nav. I'll make those changes. Sorry for the performance right now.
