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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[Meimiko]

Well I usually have very little problems making things compatible for multiple browsers if things are properly validated. Says there's 66 errors. Why must xHTML go through such painful validation to look so pretty?
http://validator.w3.org/

The design itself is nice but I think the brushes are kinda overboard. I love the colors though it definitely fits with the feel of 2PM's new songs. (er... kinda new now lol) I definitely love your typography, it's bold but not distracting. The background is kinda iffy with me. I like it but I feel like I have to squint to see the stars in the background. It adds a bit of strain on my eyes (then again it's 2am for me and my room is uber dark.) Your main content font is a little too bright for me too. Overall it's a very pleasant design, nice job.

[jiyong]

^ Thanks TJ (:

Well I usually have very little problems making things compatible for multiple browsers if things are properly validated. Says there's 66 errors. Why must xHTML go through such painful validation to look so pretty?
http://validator.w3.org/

The design itself is nice but I think the brushes are kinda overboard. I love the colors though it definitely fits with the feel of 2PM's new songs. (er... kinda new now lol) I definitely love your typography, it's bold but not distracting. The background is kinda iffy with me. I like it but I feel like I have to squint to see the stars in the background. It adds a bit of strain on my eyes (then again it's 2am for me and my room is uber dark.) Your main content font is a little too bright for me too. Overall it's a very pleasant design, nice job.

I don't know exactly know what you meant by the validation, but I checked my site using the W3 validator and cut my errors by more than a third after I replaced <br> with <br /> an stuff. I looked through the errors and there wasn't anything that affected the margin errors I was trying to fix in the first place. Most of the errors W3 found were things like forgetting to put the alt attribute in my img tags and closing off input tags with /> instead of >.

I like the brushes the way they are right now. The background is supposed to be muted like that. The original background had very bright stars and that distracted from the content, so I put a few colored layers on top to quiet the brightness. The content font has already been toned down from pure white to a soft pink, so I'm going to leave that as well.

Thanks for your input (: Appreciated.