Hey guys, I was wondering if there were proper steps I should take before I start advertising my site, craigjuddpinstriping.net , and are there other things I should include for this site? Thanks guys! - Matt.

Have you noticed that your menu moves up and down the page from one page to the next?

As for advertising, do you mean getting in into search engines or purchasing adwords and such.

Most certainly is a google (or bing) webmaster report on your site reporting any oproblems or do you have any validation errors?

OK Matt, I've seen your posts and sites over recent weeks and months and you really seem to be a nice guy, so part of me tells me not to do this....

BUT, I'll volunteer to be the bad guy and do you the favor of being brutally honest!

Quite frankly, the site is nowhere near being ready for prime time!

From the photo gallery, I get the impression that Craig Judd is a very creative, talented artist, and you owe it to him to make a site that does him some justice. You need to think a lot more about content and presentation!

I don't really know where to begin, but here are a few pointers:

Home Page: This essentially consists of one thing, and one thing only, and that is the logo. First in the header in the upper left and then in a much larger version in the body. There are a couple of icon-like shields on the left, one of which I thought would link to facebook, but they don't link to anything. As for the auto-playing sound clip, - don't get me started!
Services page: Everything on this page just links to a facebook page, with no other meaningful information... (??)
About page: This and the artwork page are the only places that have some meaningful content on the site. But IMHO you need to rethink the font and the font color and then break down the text in paragraphs to make it readable. Also, if you narrow down the view port (think smaller screens like tablets and phones), the "f" and "in" shields block a sizable portion of the text.
Contact page: Not enough info here to justfy a page of its own. You could stick it on the home page somewhere... Also, the same problems with the "f" and "in" shields blocking content.

Sorry Matt, but somebody needed to tell you!

I hate to say it Matt, and I hope you can take this constructively, but your site needs a lot of work yet. By no means is that ready to be released. First thing is you definitely need to format your text. Your bio page is horribly setup, there are no paragraphs, no one is going to stop and read that, it needs proper setups for grammar, sentence structure, paragraphs, etc.
The text is also not a great color for trying to read. It wouldn't be too horrible if it were broken up I'm sure, but it actually hurts my eyes to look at it for long.

Your contact page heading is off to the right which doesn't look right.
Your contact sentence is one big long link which is very strange looking, shouldn't be a link for that whole sentence.

Your services page is nothing but a handful of links that all go to facebook, same place for all there are no products to go to on that page so that page is pretty much a useless page since you have the facebook etc. links on the side of the site already.

Top most your site has almost no content on it at all other than the bio page. Nothing, even the home page has absolutely nothing but an image on it, well 2 of them of the same image which looks a bit strange.

Music players are better when set in the "off" position on page load up and people can turn them on if they want to hear it rather than getting bombarded with it and having to turn it off on multiple pages when they navigate the site etc. Just an irritant for many people and not a good practice for business sites unless you have a more subtle music style that isn't quite as shocking as a rock type tune.

That's my feed back, sorry if it sounds harsh, but you did ask for what we thought it may need, and my 2 major suggestions are it actually needs content, and the content it has on the bio page needs formatting.

Good luck on it

Hmmm, Jo Ann... Looks like deja vu all over again, - in six paragraphs no less!

Give me some credit for originality here will ya!

oh haha Per, I had the page open so long typing that you got me again!

I know Jo Ann! I'm just messing with you!

Max Has the client seen the site?
If the client says they love it then it's your job to make suggestions to them looking at the site from a users point of view. What a client wants may not always be the best thing to deliver the customers that will be viewing the site. After all I wouldn't tell him how to pinstripe.

Im betting Eric takes secret goverment issued happy pills or something haha. Always love his positive feedback! haha I will agree though that there is work to be done on it, but also agree that Max seems like a cool cat!

I'm working on it guys, the setup I have is the actual basic structure that I use for every site.
@Per, thanks for the input my friend, I have taken note to what you have stated and will in the near future put it to use. As for the song, the client's son created it himself in a garage with some friends, I have no control over it, as I myself like it and some people do as well. I use the about page just to state his bio as instructed by my client, the services page is just his basic info to contact him as instructed by the client, the font is my choice, labeled 'damn noisy kids' from 1001 fonts.com, but I can change that if I want, as far as colors, I went with a blend to match the banner as this is all I have to go off of right now. All the images in the photo gallery I have personally cropped and they are awaiting more use as frame work to the page.. I really do appreciate your input Per, and it will be considered .. thanks
@ Jo Ann, repeat a nightmare I'll work on everything you've stated as well as what Per said, I wont argue with constructive criticism so thanks for not totally breaking me all at once.

@ Zombiecowmeat , you scare me.