I agree with Kyle on the colors. They work well together. I’ve always wanted the ability to design sites like this, I think you’ve done a great job.

1. The left side bar overpowers the content. Not sure how to fix that. I think it is because the size is very similar to the size of the content.

2. I like the color scheme, although using a solid background might be easier on the eyes.

3. The footer does not blend in at all with the rest of the theme.

What do you want your visitors to do? When I visit the blog, I first saw the content, then my eyes went to the sidebar and saw the top page ads, they don’t interest me so then I saw the recent posts. Is that what you want visitors to do or do you want them to purchase your services, which are kind of hidden away down below the fold? Or do you want them to do something else?

All in all I like the direction the theme is going.

Post Summaries – Clear and easy to read, clickable post title links and a decent space between each one – I like this as they are!

Sidebar – I’d agree with what has been said by Ad Tracker, in that the fading effect, certainly on the left side, looks a little strange and seems to draw my eye to it too much on first glance – perhaps a solid colour may be better?

Iconbar – Again, I think it makes the sidebar stand out a little too much, have you thought about placing it underneath the header image? Either within the header box or within another one attached to it? Perhaps in a similar way to the contect icons on uVme Blog?

Sidebar Headings – I like the graduated fill of these headings, I’d perhaps be tempted to make them a little more consistent in style (white inner, black outline on differently coloured graduated fill backgrounds). Also you could take these headings and apply them to the Most Recent Posts / Most Recent Comments etc which would help separate them out a bit more?

Those are my initial thoughts from looking at it, I’d be happy to give you my opinions on the individual post pages when they’re done. I’m no design expert, hence why I’ve been quite limited in my own theme customisation, but hope that helps in some way!

In terms of colours it is very clean and easy on the eyes, I actually like the different colours of the titles in the sidebar.

There is lots of sidebar space further down, so the widgets you have aligned next to each other could go on top of each other if you want to make that column thinner to draw less attention do it.

Overall the colour scheme is good, but the balance between then 2 columns could use some work.

Yes! This is the level of feedback I am looking for! Thank you and I hope others will offer the same level of feedback, criticism, and suggestion.

Thank you so much!

Would this site be more of an example of what you are talking about?

http://www.howdoimakemoneyonline.com

@ HomeMom3,

Thanks! Do you like this new theme better than the theme that is live now on the main site?

@ Fred,

There are a few sites that have done some really nice updates… I am not sure, but it must spread like a cold.

The logo text in the header is riding a little higher than center. That may have been what you were shooting for.

The text in the post content area is not centered. There is a little more space on the left margin.

The sidebar is interesting. I like the ad icon box but I assume you will put your RSS subscriber stuff directly under it if not above it somewhere.

I find the text in the sidebar a little bit difficult to read for a couple of reasons. First, because it is wide, you have to move your eyes to read it so it can’t be read at a glance. Second, the shading might be just a touch dark on the left side reducing the contrast.

I love the small column gradient headers. Perhaps you might consider creating similar headers for the wide column divisions or at least provide a little more space between segments so they don’t run together.

I’m not a designer nor do I pretend to be. These are only my opinions. The design seems to be perfectly useful but these are the things I would do differently.

You asked.