Need styling advice.

[WritersBeat]

Take a look at http://www.writersbeat.com - I feel like I have to refactor the header. Can anyone give some opinions on how I can optimize the space? I feel like to much is being wasted. I really need to go for simplicity so if anyone can give their two cents it would be amazing. Thanks!

[CyberAlien]

I suggest to decrease height of "front page" and "forums" buttons, and search box. Or maybe move "front page" and "forums" buttons to the rest of navigation below navbar.

[WritersBeat]

What about the google search then?

[CyberAlien]

reduce height, and right side should get smaller if you have it in same div or table cell as links above it.

[WritersBeat]

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2122/picture1qm9.th.png (http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2122/picture1qm9.png)

opinions, suggestions?

[CyberAlien]

I think that looks much better :)

[WritersBeat]

Do you think it would be advisable to remove the "lined" paper and just keep the jagged look w/ a white background?

[Spank]

No you musn't remove the lined paper, I forbid it! lol!It's a great look with the lined paper. From looking at I think the header would look ok if you moved the nav bar to the very top. Just my opinion though.

[Princeton]

viewing in Firefox

- trim some of the empty space found on the logo
- reduce the contrast on the background image (make the lines less noticeable)
- the main nav wraps when viewing site @ 800 resolution