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@photoben
Your photos are great, clearly got a eye for a good photo. As you are currently a student you'll only get better with more experience.
So regarding website: Good layout, though sometime the pictures take a little while to load (might just be the website build and/or my internet). Looks clean on mobile too, and people forget how important that is.
Photostories good, but I wouldn't have more than one photo from each in your portfolio section. Don't want too much repeated content.
Trim your cycling section to 12-15 shots. Great images but there are a few that are very similar (e.g front on mountain bikes).
Add more to your landscape section. Three isn't enough, maybe turn one colour and add some urban landscape (shouldn't be to hard to bang out a few nighttime wide long exposures), or whatever interests you.
Set your email so it's not yahoo, and something like contact@samtaylorphoto.co.uk (you should still be able to use yahoo as a base, my photo@benbroomfield.com is all run via gmail).
About section, good showing you are action man ;-) and understand your action subjects, though I'd edit your picture a bit try it in B&W. I wouldn't mention you are a student, but it's up to you. You mention you can buy pictures. Make life easier to your customers by uploading your photos to a pic library (such as picfair, but whatever you like), and link to it.
Oh and that blue wave photo. It's nice, but it is currently the front page image on your site for "sports". It doesn't scream sports, just pretty colours. Use the flag hockey player or the swimmer head instead.
Great piece of advice I was given recently regarding website curation. "Don't just put your best photos on the site. Put the type of photos you want to take".