New website theme, C&C? Rating Options

[jiyong]

I finally finished revamping my website theme, after debating on it for about a week. I wanted to try something darker and more elegant-feeling than my previous theme. I also got around to switching to Wordpress. I like the system much better than Cutenews, although it was harder to work with at first. Anyways, I'm really proud of how it turned out. Tbh, I was scared of posting in here in case someone chewed me out for doing something wrong >___< lol. Always good to get some feedback though. Comments? Criticism?

elletricity.com

Version 1:

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Version 2:
Added center section background, changed center section margins, changed text color, increased kerning

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[jiyong]

Thanks for all your help, guys (:

The margins seem fine to me. Making the middle section have a little bit lighter background will help separate the 3 areas more. I love the header font, what is it?

I changed the margin for the middle section anyways, it looked a lot better when I added the background. That font is Helvetica Neue Ultra Light - I used all caps and increased the kerning.

Yeah I pretty much agree that it's a bit too dark and the white text pops out too much. Your layout contradicts itself and not really in a good way :/

I think you should change the white to that pinkish color like in your navigation.

I like the dark, so I'm keeping it that way. I changed the color of all the text, though, to a lighter shade of the left column links color. What do you mean by contradict, Natalia? o__O

Your text is too crammed together, the individual words have no room to breathe. If you ease up on the kerning of the letters, it'd improve legibility and you might not even have to change the white font color.

I left the default kerning at first, but you're right. I've increased letter-spacing by 1px and then decreased word-spacing by 1px.

Result:

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