A bit of advice...?

Hello everyone,

This is a bit different style of template than I have designed before so I was wondering if people could tell me what they think before I show my client...

Thanks

I personally don't see anything wrong with it. I think you use the right amount of blue in it, and the red attracts my attention to the special offer (which it should). I would suggest you move the company news title up more though - it seems out of place and not actually on the tab.

I am sure your client will have finer details to work out - but it looks great

clean and uncluttered
has nice feel to it,
i like

Very professional and corprate looking. I love the header and the navigation tabs. The rest of it is solidly done. The boxes on the left remind me of Windows XP windows, which kind of gives off a feeling of reliability (not security though, heh). Good design, overall:)

Nice header, it has a soft digital/ pixelated effect to it and clean at the same time. Good job overall!

Here's my 0.03$

I think you should work on intergrating the logo a little more. What I see in your design is a lot of volume and glass-looking buttons with great shading. BTW, good job on these. But you logo seems to be just placed there without any attention since it doesn't have the same rendering than the rest of the page. I know a logo has to be treated differently than general graphics since the are usually designed in vector and are more often than not made of only one or two colors. So I'm not telling you to put a Bevel and Emboss filter on it. Maybe work a little more on the background around it to make it pop a little more. I'm pretty sure this would help.

I'm also noticing that your More buttons on the left-hand menu may need a little more space. It seems to me that they are unable to breath. You may want to give them some room.

But overall, you design is great. You did good job, that's for sure.