I would avoid the thing you're doing with the pictures, where you fade them out to show the overlaid text. People have a tendency to mouse over things they're l

I would avoid the thing you're doing with the pictures, where you fade them out to show the overlaid text. People have a tendency to mouse over things they're looking at ... and then the picture disappears. It's the opposite of what they want. You have room to put the text alongside or below.