Opinion on this one....
www.joelocalpt.com
Hit counter: 1998 all over again, along with the flash side menu.
Huge 192.75 kB top banner, killer.
Black links with no underline... usability disaster.
Also, if you wish to gain traffic from search engines, I'd suggest against the use of flash embedded links.
The page also uses the "windows-1252" encoding. Why?
Re design it with these points in mind and you're onto a winner. Clean, minimalist design, fewer (smaller dimension) images.
Might also want to make the page sizing relative instead of absolute. I switch my browser to 800x600 and your page overflows.