well i just read somewhere that adobe is making things so you can find stuff through google..

Flash sites are painful.

What style of site would you recommend?

For photography?

A nice clean HTML layout that doesn't detract (or distract) from the purpose of the site - which is to display your photos. Depending on skillset maybe a little AJAX and DHTML to render thumbnails and content asynchronously, otherwise the straight HTML would be fine.

"Web 2.0" or whatever you want to call it is all about elegance and simplicity in design.

Edit: From your requirements post:

Fast loading would be the only pre-requisite i reckon..

Flash is not for you!

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I dropped my domain rego with godaddy 5 years ago but even now they still feel the need to spam me with reminders to re-register that old domain @#$%&#

sounds like network solutions too...

piss flash off, it's too much effort not to mention difficult to code/use...

Get something like Drupal and add a few cool modules\link to gallery 2 and bobs yer uncle, awesome accessable website SEO friendly and secure.

www.drupal.org

drupal is awesome; I would also recommend wordpress if you want a simple blog-style site - it's really good

thoughts on dreamhost?

If you are looking for a clan site then try http://www.clanspace.com.au (although not completed quiet yet).

dreamhost are s*** if it's for a site you want online all the time...

I use www.made2own.com for heardy.com and deamhost for heardy.net which is just a file dump/hosting site (of movies taken on holidays)

very happy with made2own, used them for years, think I got onto them from either SA, OT or Genmay... either way still using them

thanks for help everyone, looks like i've decided on jumba..

I almost went dreamhost..but seeing what they offer, it seems just too damn big and gives me the feeling that they could have far more problems than jumba..

Now for a layout..