Please review the design of my site

Please review the design of my site

http://www.artofmakingfriends.org/

this is a pre-beta version..

what do you think?

I am actually not a web designer... anyway, I am open to any feedback and comments..

Thank you

 

It's ok for me, except I would use white background not pink, for readibility.

 

pink color is my favorite but u must change color dear.

 

The logo is too busy and like the other two posters stated, it needs a more subdued color scheme.

You can still use pink as an accent but for eye-strain purposes, you shouldn't overdo it.

 

Ok, I'll make pink color less bright...

But what can I do with the top logo??

I was thinking maybe I don't need bottom logo at all?

 

Could you make the page slightly narrower. I surf the web using my little netbook a lot and there are very few sites that I have to use the side scroll. When I do have to use sidescroll, like I do at your site, I usually leave immediately. BTW I have trouble with colour schemes too.

Cheers Don

 

you have use istock photos and its not a good idea for a quality website. I dont know much about it but may be you get ban from your hosting.
your over all site is good just make site width 980px.

 

if nobody made comment on istock photos is because we know it can't be definitive it's too horrible and we don't assume the op is dumb enough to use those as a final.

 

bro honestly change ur theme colour and try to make better so that it looks presentable..........

 

Well if you insist on using that logo, consider getting it paid for to remove the watermarks.
But honestly, I would go in a totally different direction with it. Something less cluttered.

 

Of course I'll buy photos for the final version! This is just a beta version.

BTW., I made background less bright - now it's more readable.

Logo - I like my logo.... it should be bright cuz of the purpose of the site. I was trying to make fancy and not boring.

 

I think you should read stuff about web2

 

good concept
but u need to enforce some thing

 

what is web2? you mean Facebook and Twitter?

 

Thank you. what should I enforce?

 

Simple and neat work done with your site

 

Nice job, but the homepage is very busy. The header has a lot going on, and there is a lot of text on the page with not as much spacing as many sites have. I think you should make the center body column narrower, so that there's some more whitespace on the left and right. People will have to scroll more but it will give the site a cleaner look and feel. I like the colors and the menu design.