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Seriously my friend, that site needs some design love. I am no design guru here but that site desperately needs a designer.

Here are a few things I would suggest:

1. Search box at the top to search images. 2. slide show of random images front and center. 3. A call to action button to upload images. 4. scrollable or scrolling categories.

You pretty much have everything I said, but nothing stands out.

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So far as 2 I'm frustrated because I'd like to emphasize what's unique about Ookaboo. I could do the same slide show everybody else does, but I've got better metadata and don't know how to show it off in a way that people get instantly.

I'm not so sure what you mean by 4.

By scrollable categories, I mean that you have categories mentioned below in long list. I don't know if anyone would have patience to go through them. Certainly not me.

A scrollable categories list would show different categories in a nicer way with 4 at a time and a more button to view the complete list if someone is interested.

You might have better metadata than anyone else but I didn't get it from looking at the page.

Flickr does a pretty good job of displaying other information on the side of a photo. You can do the same with your metadata http://www.flickr.com/photos/gcattiaux/2349773004/

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