The visual design for social community site

[ngquochung86]

Hello,
I've just design the first version of the visual interface for a social community site for business.
I'm very glad to receive critique feedback from you. Thanks a lot for your help.
Kind regards,
Hung

[Toon]

It looks fine apart from the heavy borders I would make them more subtle. Instead of grey use only a slightly darker blue that the darkest part of the centre grad.

[Leah-Q]

It all seems a little 'squared off to me'

[Mickel]

I think the contrast between the main text and the background is way to low and I also think that the bottom links and copyright text could have been alot smaller.
Same with those list arrows, they steal alot of my attention... and this is only a bad thing if that not was you intend to do so.

One last thing, you could skip some of the gradients as well. It's just too much of that IMO.

[rossable]

the way it's laid out and with all the images that are going to be requited to be loaded it's gonna take a while to render that beast in a browser. couple seconds at least. business people tend to have the shortest attention spans of any other demographic so you gotta pare that down a bit. you don't really need all the borders or have them be rounded. white space can visually separate just as well as borders and lines.

[ngquochung86]

Hello,
I've just added one banner on top to make the page looks more attracting. I also make few changes to the colour of the page. This is the second version of the this page. How do you think about it?
Thanks for support.
H

[Toon]

I would use a more solid colour for the header make it stand out

[rossable]

the banner is too large... you loose information above the fold because of it and it doesn't really add anything to the site.