This is my first template in quite a while. It took me about 4 hours to complete with all the experimenting I did to get what I thought looked good. Please give me some feedback on how to improve in the future. Deviant Art Link
It looks nice but personally, I think that the Image behind the side nav and the content box is a bit over the top. Other than that it looks good, id try for a gray or blue color behind the boxes though.
thanks for the feedback. I will try to get around to that later today and post the outcome of what I got.