Website Critique: DesignWild

[Carrot]

I've been working on a blog design for my portfolio, and this is the result. I was going for something that captured the feel of exploring/traveling in the jungle.

Any comments/crits greatly appreciated. Know in advance that the links don't work, and there's some wonkiness with IE7 that still has to be resolved. Other browsers should display fine.

www.ajw-art.com/critique/designwild

Thanks!

[blueocto]

I think its a good start, although I think you could add alot more detail and intrigue into the design, there also seems to be alot of whitespace 'above the fold'...

You do have a ton of 'alt' attributes msising, I presume its because some of these are placeholders for now?

Definately keep working on it, I think it could be something really inspiring!

[media]

maybe tighten upi the white spacing

[likethegoddess]

I'll agree on tightening up the design "above the fold."

I like layered foliage on your header. I'm missing the connection between the background stripes and your "wild" theme. You could go with somethings darker and and more "mysterious."

Pith helmet's a nice touch. The heading type and the board background are going in another direction from your header concept.

The spacing on your footer looks off. I'd find a way to feed tweets that strips out Twitter's design and branding.

Hope this helps.

Diana

PS: Is there a reason you've created a blog in XHTML/CSS rather than some PHP-based blogging software?