Please do not criticize me for my blog content, Im trying to learn and make more useful blog topics, but besides that, I opened a new blog in attempts to try and inspire myself almost everyday and Im really pleased with the design, I wanted to get some feedback though :)

http://www.creativemoot.com

also, I am open to blogroll link exchanges :)

i would recommend taking that streampad thing off. yeah it's somewhat personal preference i guess but it just looks ugly and honestly i don't think the majority of people care. if your blog is a text blog with written posts, who really wants to listen to music and read at the same time? i guess take that with a grain of salt since people have difference preferences but i read a lot of blogs, visit a lot of blogs, and know a lot of people who do the same and the general consensus i've found is that we usually don't care. but props for not making it autoplay at least. if you're hell bent on keeping music, i'd go for a more discreet player.

i wish the mark/title wasn't on a white rectangle separating it from the rest of the header. it looks a little clunky to me how the diagonal stripes stop and then pick back up. i also don't know how i feel about the implied drop shadow thing behind the nav and other boxes on the page. i think you'd be fine without those, or maybe just using it on the nav instead of on the other boxes. actually i think i mostly just dislike it on that red welcome box. it looks awkward, especially how it's placed. it lines up with that white rectangle behind your title, so it almost looks like it's one image, but then the red has a drop shadow. i don't know if you see what i mean or if this makes sense but it's making it look awkward to me.

it looks a little too crowded. i can't put my finger on why though. i think maybe the sidebar to blog ratio could be better. your sidebar is as big as your actual blog post section almost and i think that would work better if it wasn't. i mean from a hierarchy standpoint, you'd want to focus on your posts first i'd think. shrinking the sidebar would probably help that and it would help viewers know where to look first, at your actual content.

i also wish the whole blog was centered instead of being off to the left. i have some more picky suggestions but i typed enough.

on the flip side, i think it's got a lot of potential when you tweak some stuff. i really like the over all look you're going for. i think if you could get it to feel a little more clean you'd be on the right track. i like the use of diagonal stripes, which i typically don't. i like the idea of using mostly white, a lot of people, esp on cb, seem to steer away from that but at the end of the day i think most people would rather read on white than a dark color that takes away from readability. besides that i really like your combination mark. it's a nice symbol, it's simple and cool and memorable. i like the font you choose too and i think it's nicely tracked, something that is a rarity, around cb anyway.

I think the streampad makes it feel more cramped which may be adding to the crowded-ness. Also agree with JC about the red box and the dropshadows. I think you should take them off the nav and everything, the red box might look decent too without them though.

yeah agreed about the streampad adding to that crowded feeling. it doesn't seem like half an inch or something at the bottom would really matter, but i think it can.

thanks for the feedback :) Im glad to be moving on a more mature and professional track which is what I was going to :) I think I see the drop shadow on the red box differently as well, Im taking that off in the morning and I'll remove the streampad too and maybe making it a little wider wouldnt hurt :)

I like it, although in the interest of constructive feedback, I will echo a couple things JC already pointed out. The sidebar and the main content area are roughly the same width: about 43% sidebar and the rest is the main content. Combined with the fact that the main area is on the right (English speakers will naturally look to the left first when visiting a webpage), it's hard to tell immediately where the content is and where the sidebar is. Furthermore, most of the text in the sidebar is the same size or bigger than that of the main content area, making it even harder to immediately see the "blog" component. I'd scale down the sidebar and bring more focus to the content area.

I'm not sure if this is just the color on my own monitor, but the red in the blurb in the sidebar is too red. You're also not doing your RSS correctly.

What everybody else had said so far. Also the contact button is off-center to the right, it looks a bit odd next to the other two (they seem more centered).

Can't you find another music player besides streampad?


Btw, your screen name and Thomas' name is very similar. lol!

iirc synatribe had his/her name first.

Also my only suggestion would be giving the left column more space.

Im not using streampad anymore

I cant believe you dont remember me CJ (is this CJ?) Im kevin (previously aberisk) but thanks I would enlarge the columns but I have to edit the entire PSD which is a hassle at this point, maybe it wont be a hassle in the future but I appreciate everything, it definitely gives me more insight for my next layout :)

Yeah it's CJ. I figured you were Kevin, I just wasn't entirely sure. I have trouble keeping up with the name changes.

Looks a bit crowded but I'd change the background. It reminds me of an old sofa design haha.