Need opinions on these sites pls!!?

Question

These sites are being shown to me as so called excellent examples from a client of mine who is trying to stir up trouble. Please look at the picture gallery mainly as that is their issue. Any comments pls?


http://www.dunlopfineart.com/

http://www.karolldalycebrinton.com/biography.html

http://www.andrewkiss.bc.ca/

http://www.michellegrant.ca/cgi-bin/pa/pa.cgi?overlord=Search+Gallery&catagory=Archives

http://www.michellezarb.com/

http://www.kimpenner.com/gallery.html

Answer 1

Well, all the galleries are the same with the exception of the first one. I have these criticisms:

- the first one loads all the thumbnails, which takes a bit of time and makes for an indefinitely long page
- the others all have the phrase "Found a total of x matches" which would normally lead me to believe I'd performed some sort of search
- I like to see a "showing x to y of z total" sort of information at the top of the page and (optionally) repeated at the bottom so I don't have to scroll to get to the next page

Other than that, it seems like a pretty decent but easily replicatable gallery.

Answer 2

There's nothing wrong with them, nothing really outstanding either. Fairly clean design.

All pretty much the same. In fact, at lest two use the same template.

The gallery pages are pretty standard. What exactly is their issue?