Welcome!

[Mannii]

Hola,
Huge fan of Smashing magazine. Finally got the guts to showcase my design. Enjoy,

http://www.katiatrudeau.com

Katie

[ibizaah]

Hola!

Congrats on having the guts. Your site looks awesome. I specially like that I get to see your work right from the start without no need to click anywhere. That is a huge time saver.

Speaking about time, the site loads a little slow because is heavy on graphics. I ran ySlow and got some input for you:
This page has 23 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

SM has some good articles con how to do that. It is a little time consuming but for heavy graphic site like yours can improve site performance considerably.

SM article on sprites -> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/the-mystery-of-css-sprites-techniques-tools-and-tutorials/

YSlow is an extension of FireBug for Firefox and can be downloaded for free at http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/.

Good job!

Miguel

[Mannii]

Oh wow, thanks! I'll definitely look into that.

Katie