Thanks, Tenub?

I knew that someone would have something against it, so I might as well discuss it as best I can.

The design in simple and bland because that's what the client was looking for. The example sites were very bland, but it was what the client said they wanted it to look like. This isn't the only contest I've won, and yes, I have several years of coding experience in (x)HTML, CSS, PHP, Flash (animating, and coding in ActionScript 1.0, and 2.0), and MySQL.

The photographs in the submitted designs aren't being used because yes, they were just "dummy" images to see how it'd look. I'm replacing them with photos from iStockPhotos, which I should've just done in the first place. Again, the placement of them was on purpose to try and keep it simple.

If I wanted the design to look "classy", and visually stunning, I could. Take this design that I made for example: http://zeldadimension.net/images/he…outs/3.jpg

However, I lost in that contest, not because of looks, but because of how/where everything was laid out. So this time, I tried to do the opposite.

But thanks.