I put together a website for a friend of mine who's a classical pianist. My girlfriend designed it. I'd appreciate your opinion, especially on the brightness/colors (it looks good on both our home computers but here at work it's a little dark). Written as XHTML Strict 1.1 + CSS with full accessibility considerations.

Please note: on the press page I embedded the little flash player that I saw is used on Massassi for showcasing mp3s. I couldn't find any author info about it, but if you do know who made it please let me know, I'd like to request their permission / give them credit.

Yaron Kohlberg :: Pianist

It looks good.
My only comment is on the Biography page. The large block of text is kinda boring. with that being the only thing on the page it feels empty.
THe press page feels much beter with the font variations and bullets, it's much easier on the eyes.

Other than that I like it. It's not too dark on my machine. And I love the keys in the background.

Also, the text "Welcome to Yaron Kohlberg's official website!" on the front page could stand to be larger or maybe a different font.
It seems kind of out of place amongst the lovely fonts of the menu and the name in the upper right.

It looks nice. I agree with what djwguitarman said about the biography page.

Don't use XHTML 1.1 unless you know what you're doing. That page, will not actually render if you serve it as XHTML.

Either serve the page as XHTML or use XHTML1.0 or HTML4.

Keep in mind that IE does not support XHTML, making XHTML1.1 rather useless and you'll need to serve pages as text/html to IE anyway (and ideally with a XHTML1.0 doctype).

Thanks for the comments, I agree about the bio. I'll spruce it up with a photo and a title.

Regarding XHTML, as you said I can't serve application/xhtml+xml because of compatibility reasons, and I don't want to serve different MIME types to different browsers. I see no harm in serving 1.1 as text/html for the time being till browsers improve their compatibility.