Kid in a candy shop, new layout. c&c perhaps? Rating Options

[alison-apples]

I'm working on a new layout. Attempted a strawberry theme, came up with... this?

Is the text/font okay? The colors? Should the links be text? Buttons? If buttons, I know how to do rollovers, so rollovers or stationary buttons?

Aha.

Thanks in advance for any helps. :)

original: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9728/candyew9.jpg

new & improved: http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1830/candylytsp9.png

(it will be sized down. no worries.)

[schizo]

I don't know...Nothing seems to go together. Maybe you should make the boxes white and just add little splashes of colors straight from the image? It would look cool if you kept the text in the same font and style but made each letter a different color from the lollipop. Also, I'd make the background black instead of brown.