I've made a few websites and while I don't consider myself an expert on things, I'll give a few constructive bits of feedback from my own site design experience.
- Using Joomla is useful for someone who does not want to hire a web coder, but it tends to generate really sloppy code. Your code is suffering from too many and too repetitive code hunks, especially for laying down the style options for each section. Too many font size and colour codes, too many "divs" to separate the code and the like. Some of this will certainly cause the site to load slower on some systems.
- Being on any page and then clicking your "Home" menu option eliminates your slide show. It just displays all the photos stacked on top of each other. It still tries to cycle through them but there appears to be an issue here with the coding.
- The body typeface - VTCGoblinHand - would be better used as just a headline font and not body copy. It can be difficult for someone to read if they have any visual challenges. Maybe change the body copy back to Verdana (Windows) / Lucida Grande (Mac). I'd personally remove it from the menu and body copy. There's a reason virtually every major site sticks to those core typefaces.
- There's a very large gap on the top of your logo and the top of the page. It just looks weird having so much blank space at the top.
- All uppercase menus. I'm not a fan of them personally. Uppercase has it's place, I just don't like it. YMMV.
- The photo of the person in green wearing the black bracers appears out of focus. Have it re-shot if you can.
- The grey body font colour on the white background doesn't have quite enough contrast. Make it darker by a few levels. I dug through your CSS code and it's set to #686382; I'd darken it to around #444 or more. It just gives a bit more contrast for those with poor contrast perception.
- On your Gallery page, I wouldn't start with the "Miscellaneous" category first. That should probably be a last catch-all section for all the other cool things you do. Keep your first two sections as your dominant work and the ones you're really trying to focus on... unless you like being a jack of all trades.
I also loaded your site on the following browers and noticed the discrepancies listed below:
Firefox v.10.0.2
This is my default browswer so I'm judging everything against this.
Internet Explorer v.8.0.6001
Body copy on the home page is in all caps in IE. Probably a style error somewhere in the coding is causing this.
The images on the home page open up about 3 inches below the header and the top of the menu, at least on clicking the "Home" menu option.
Opera v.11.60
Body copy on the home page is in all caps in IE. Probably a style error somewhere in the coding is causing this.
Google Chrome v.17.0.963
Body copy on Home page is in upper/lower case but needs an increase in the kerning (space between letters) - it's very tightly packed. This may be simply from using the custom fontface. Switching to Lucida Grande/Verdana may fix this.
Beyond that, your site has lots of potential. It just needs some tweaks to really take it to the next level.
Good work and good luck with it.
There's letter spacing, but it's not the same thing which is really unfortunate.