A number of comments. 1. The layout is prehistoric. It harkens to the earliest days of internet design. Lose the global auto centering and create some blocks.

A number of comments. 1. The layout is prehistoric. It harkens to the earliest days of internet design. Lose the global auto centering and create some blocks. Do this on a sketch pad and make as many variation as you can before deciding (see: http://v3.jasonsantamaria.com/archive//2004/05/24/grey_box_method.php http://v3.jasonsantamaria.com/archive//2004/05/24/grey_box_m...). Also, if you don't want to actually make borders, ensure the blocks are small enough wrt the text to be well-defined. 2. The pallet chosen is diluted. An easy way to chose pallets is to use a program such as kuler.adobe.com and make an analogous or complementary pallet. Don't make the colors too intense and test them as much as you'd test any other part. 3. The typography runs together. Typography is becoming huge in online design and it's really hard to get right. To learn a bit, I suggest Mark Boulton's "Five Simple Steps" especially steps 4 and 5 (http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography/ http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_st...). 4. Keep asking people. When you design something you never have a good idea of how effective it is. Asking people here and elsewhere is an absolute must, so this was definitely a good step. Hope those help and inspire.