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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 :)

[brooklyneast05]

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.