Well, I do like the overall design of it. It's clean and crisp. There's really only one thing that I don't like, and that's he header. It looks really over sharpened. Maybe a dark grey box behind the News titles would help spice it up a bit. But really, the template is pretty good, I like it.
okay re-added Thanks for the tip Snowy, I will see about adding a dark color to the news area Northern yeah the font is messed up a bit, I messed up the spacing in photoshop, and now i dont know what the default is
ok, here are the crits: -banner doesn't fit the rest of the template at all -the shapes are boring add some variety, its all to boxy and flat -the allignment of the actual content is wrong (not the same space from the left column to the end of the box)- hope you know what i mean kinda hard to explain -the gradients need more contrast and strong colors edit: this is what i mean: you really have alot of alignment problems in there, be sure the spacing is right it adds alot to the structure.
I quite like the nav how it is, hes right about the large boxes needing moved to the left a bit to make it even on both sides. keep at it! also the standard text I use is Verdana 11 with the (none) setting so its pixely, use sharp on the nav bar tho