Another attempt on I Have Senioritis
I uploaded my new design for I Have Senioritis today. It wasn't too much trouble to do… this design was 99% just editing the CSS file from the previous design. The rest was moving one div tag.
The whole process was a matter of grabbing Occam's Razor and shaving away at the previous design, removing one element after another until I was rid of all the clutter and loud elements and had whittled the design down to a very simple, reader-friendly look. I also managed to make it liquid, but just a bit 
But forget saying anything about it, I'll just show you the before and after pics and you can judge for yourself:
What do you think? Better? Nice? Good? Let me know.
Certainly better (at least what I can see from here), that textured background wasn't very nice.
It looks like a generic blog template. No slight against you, but that's what it looks like to me.
Well Clint, the idea was "generic decent blog template" rather than "original quirky ugly design." It's pretty good for me considering that I'm totally incapable of any attractive graphic design.
Hey that's cool, If that's what you were shooting for, then you succeeded!
Not bad! It is a little template-ish, but a good improvement on the last version. The only thing I'd change is to set some minimum widths, then call it a day.
Keep it up, dude.
I like it better. It does look like a standard blog, but like you said that's what you were shooting for. One thing you could do is enlarge the photos in the corner a bit and have them overlap them from the header to the main area to give the impression of them laying on a desktop (may want to rotate them both a little bit to the right as well if you do this). Also, you may want to try and create an icon of such to go with your name. If not, maybe at the least, try a different font. Right now the name is so plain. You could still use a sans-serif type font just not something so standard. Just a couple thoughts!
Happy New Years!
Well, to me, it looks a bit more bland and impersonal than the first.