My views on website design err on the side of function. One photographer’s site I have visited belongs to Mark Tucker. I’ve read some of his views about the subject, and his site is a good example of a way to display photographs online. Hey Mark if you see this, I hope you don’t mind me screen-capping your splash image:

I couldn’t find it elsewhere on your site to link to and it took me back a few years to a picture I had taken in Australia. I’ll see if I can dig it out. Here it is.