What can I do to improve this..., What can I do to this to get it accepted? Options

[wildkitty]

I recently submitted an anime layout. You can see it here:
http://www.geodata.soton.ac.uk/~csms/createblog/anime.html

It got refused. I just want some ideas/advice from CB website layout experts who can tell me what i can do to improve this so it's accepted.

Thanks in advance.
Kitty

[talcumpowder]

I can't read the text. That's always a major tip-off that I'm not going to like it. Because, I have bad eyesight (even with my glasses) and I like being able to read the text. It's the wrong colour. The text colour is too close to the background colour. You should really define your font size in either pt or px.
Beyond that, it's a rather low-quality image and it's boring. If you were to... -thinks- Get a higher quality image, put some... Feeling into the layout, and add a title (or even just text)... It's be a lot better. Oh, and if you were going to do the blog/navigation like that... It'd look better if structured like this. It also seems that this would be better if you imagemaped some navigation onto it, seeing as your main image is only one column. Yeah, and I agree with the other 2... A lot more effort could be put into it.