New home page design. Please critique!

[unenergizer]

I have always thought that my homepage was really unorganized. So I decided to design something fresh for my site, but keep the same structure. This is a work in progress screen shot. Please critique this design and please be Harsh!

http://www.completegfx.com/completegfx-v4---home.png

Thank you!
Andrew Brown
Owner/Administrator
http://www.completegfx.com/

[Loanmanken]

Well I like it for the most part. The only things I think you should change is alignment of the login details (move them further over to the right) and in make the navigation & footer text bold and a dark blue/ turquoise color. Other then that I like wat you have done.

-Zach

[nexialys]

I personally find very funny to see a designer with a reputation ask for reviews of his front pages from time to time... you seems unsecure, Andrew.. lol

actually, i always find your work very professional. you have a sense of balance, and the eye-candy stuff is not "too much"...

a detail: the PAST and OTHER blocks are having the same look even if they are not representing the same kind of content... i would change the content of the testimonials to show the last X words of 2 or 3, not a list of titles...

but the overall is great... :) (you share with us?!)

[unenergizer]

I personally find very funny to see a designer with a reputation ask for reviews of his front pages from time to time... you seems unsecure, Andrew.. lol

I'm not so much insecure, but rather interested in what the end user thinks. :)

actually, i always find your work very professional. you have a sense of balance, and the eye-candy stuff is not "too much"...

Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.

a detail: the PAST and OTHER blocks are having the same look even if they are not representing the same kind of content... i would change the content of the testimonials to show the last X words of 2 or 3, not a list of titles...

but the overall is great... :) (you share with us?!)

I was thinking the same when it came to the everything looking similar. I figured that maybe it would be easier for any user to understand what the site is about. I have updated the icons in the blocks that you mentioned to help better distinguish the two. The reason for this is I believe that when someone vists the site they are not getting a CLEAR message of what the site is about. 74% of all visitors leave in the first 30 seconds and that is what I am trying to fix.

lol nexialys what do you mean share with you? If you need a "promotional" skin I can provide those to you for free. :D

Also this is abit off topic, but congrats again on the new addition to your family. I hope your daughter has 10 fingers and 10 toes . Andrew CROSES his fingers! :erm:

[nexialys]

lol nexialys what do you mean share with you? If you need a "promotional" skin I can provide those to you for free. :D
actually, the only thing you could provide me would be a parenting-related style so i can suggest some of my clients to buy from you.. lol otherway, it would be complicated... i love your stuff, but i do not have the talent to make such designs.. i'm more into typologos and CSS design myself!
Also this is abit off topic, but congrats again on the new addition to your family. I hope your daughter has 10 fingers and 10 toes . Andrew CROSES his fingers! :erm:yeah, i first checked these details... 10 of each, but also checked if the eyes were cross-browsers compatibles.. LOL

[Guest210212002]

That looks fantastic.

[unenergizer]

That looks fantastic.

Thank you Chris. :up: