Actually aside from the Flash intro (you know nobody watches those, right?) the guitarist web site is pretty good. I didn't mean to bash the designs, only to point out that DNN doesn't add anything special that you actually need, and DNN is a huge performance hit over straight HTML.

Great.

Thanks for your replies.

Confirmed what I thought really which was that a html/css site will be better and quicker.

One of my main cnocerns was the initial load time...... impatient people will just close the window!

Actually I try to tell people their opinion doesn't really mean anything - it's the collective opinion of the web site users that matters. If they aren't getting what they want, your site has very little purpose, and it doesn't matter what you think. All you have to do is spend 5 minutes on Myspace to realize that the average person knows nothing about web design. What amazes me is that they all think they do.