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.)

[ForgiveTheSinner]

Ermmm...honestly I don't know. I like it, but I also don't.

Maybe its just too boring on the bottom or it just looks boring since there's no text or anything there.

But, I would change the colors of the boxes since it's just so random, the blue is fine but the yellow and pink is a little eehhhhh.

[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.

[alison-apples]

better? :)

[alison-apples]

Wut. I can see how the colors in the first one don't look right, but the second one... I'm just using the lollipop palette for that one. I don't really see the problem. :c

[digitalfragrance]

Definite improvement from the first one.

I think the polka dots are a little distracting... they don't fill the negative space in the upper-left hand corner correctly. The image just seems to be a little off balance. Try to add something in that space that will draw some attention their and balance out the image.

[alison-apples]

Thanks. :3

Yeah, I'm a little off put by that area. I've been trying out some different brushes, but none of it is really looking that great. I'll keep trying though.