Jim, we'll agree to differ.

Looking again at the current site, I see no value to the "under construction" text and the ordering page with "coming soon" I have some sympathy with, but think it would be better without. It doesn't really matter if "under construction" is there for two weeks or two years, many visitors won't bother to return to find out. If the website is going to be "complete" in two weeks, it's best to postpone publishing it until then.

An alternative to the "Under construction" and "coming soon" messages would be to have a blog/news type page where you could talk about your photography and the plans for the website. That way you would give visitors a reason to return which would be to keep up with your news/views rather than just to see if you're website is complete.

I appreciate this is a small scale venture, but mainstream websites just aren't made with "under construction" and that's not because they couldn't be built in stages with placeholders, but because it's not a good user experience.

Anyway, we can agree to disagree.

Paul