The layout and design is not bad however I think you should do the following things: - Get a professional logo. - Add more colors into the color scheme. - Add some graphics to the page.
Pretty nice - I like the header design. I feel like the latest posts and recent posts are competing for my attention though...
I really like the simplicity and the typography feel in this design. One thing you can concider doing is getting a proffesional logo.
Actually most of the readers hate white color. Try to include any other color especially blue or green for blogs of this theme...
Good overal looks. Things that can be improved - Colors. There is to much black on wite, it hurts the eye. Maybe bring in a new color for the titles. - Maybe group a bit closer the "continue reading" line to the post, now it looks like it's not related with anything, it floats there. - I don't know what exactly the "LATEST POST" is intended to do, but it's repeating so many times that it looks like you want to rank for it. Remove it if it's not really usefull. - The rest of the alignment looks good.
I like white backgrounds...can look really nice and clean, but if you have a white background, EVERYTHING on the page needs to look really clean and simple. A few graphics in your posts could add a lot of color to your page. A nice looking logo wouldn't hurt either!
It looks too bland especially with the white plain background. It is even lack of images which makes it quite dull. Work on that and everything should be ok.