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- Nairn0
Strange site.
Your internal pages are almost quite decent, if you ignore the slipshod intra-section navigation. You really need to think about this a quite a bit more - it's [presumably] early days for your site, yet already older content is hidden behind pages and pages of paginated links.
Also - where is this content from? It took me a while to spot that it's sourced from Louisiana Homes & Gardens, an [again, presuambly] established print production - should this not be mentioned further up the page? At first glance, it's hard to distinguish your site from any other thieving blog aggregator. Personally, I'd have the Louis. H&G shout as a small but noticable shout in your masthead. Aaah, yes - the masthead - I don't want to sound like a twat - but it is truly awful. Patently thrown together by someone with zero design nous from the offcuts of the last decade's design failures. Less really is more. Aside from looking awful, it tells me nothing about your site's intention.
Do you have by lines available in your content database? If you do, and if your print-sister has quality writers, I'd consider adding them in-site - aside from anything, done appropriately, you could gain an extra tier of 2ndry nav ("Click here to Read more by this author"?)
Also, I'd be wary of calling your first sectional nav button 'homes' - it's too similar to 'home', which I'm sure most of your users would expect to take them to the index page.
If I were you, I'd sit down and watch some none-nerds use your site - I just don't think your target demographic will find it easy to use.