Better if you do the artwork to link to the Salon. This would be both full of content and attrative..

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

I agree. A clean, sharp layout with prominent, interesting content will draw more people -- at least, more of the sort of people we'd like to stay. If the goal were merely to increase traffic then we'd best become something else and attract a more... numerous spectrum of persons.

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