I just made a new layout draft, looks pretty decent in my opinion, but I would like some other peoples comments on it as well. Looks pretty good in all non-ancient browsers except MacIE 5.2.

http://www.veracon.net/37/

yup, looks very nice - well done

Maybe a bit more colour

Hmm shouldn't this be in webdesign?

Lacking color, very little contrast. I would add padding around the left and right sides of the text, almost blends in to the gradient edges.

I like that border!

The shadows look nice but it needs more color, right now it's kinda boring.

i don't like it.

mundane and mechanical.

It's hard to get a real feel for a particular design without actually seeing REAL content in it. Lorem Ipsum and other dummy texts should generally be avoided. Spend a little extra time and work real content into the design.

That said, I like this design. It's clean, simple and professional. The text does need some padding around it though. I can't really say much more without seeing actual content in place.

It's padded a bit more now, you may have to do a hard refresh to see it. I'll attempt putting some more colour in there.

Updated version up, however I can't get it validating with the CSS because I use -moz-opacity in a few places. Also it appears there're a lot of parse errors, as if it doesn't read the newlines. I use Unix linebreaks by the way.

http://www.veracon.net/37/

Still needs more colour , make the logo have nice bright colours, then you can use it as a transparent background for the txt to make the whole design a bit more colourful... just my opinion.

Updated again.

You're getting there, but I have a few more suggestions.

-Use some sort of mouseover animation for the navigation, the extra border on the bottom left me expecting something.
-Using a logo that wide is bound to get accidental clicks.
-Remove the mouseover animation on the featured work bit?

1.) I'll think of a good one, maybe one making an arrow below the bottom border.
2.) I don't quite get what you're saying? Oh, I understand. I just happen to usually click not exactly on the logo, so it's good for me, but I might change it.
3.) It's not animated, but I may remove it anyway. Removed. Now it's also valid CSS.

more colour dammit

But where? :\

Not sure, a nice photo is always a good method... you will just have to take it yourself unless you can find a decent free one.

I don't see what photo would fit in that kind of site. o_o

a studio

Update: http://www.veracon.net/37/new/: Changed the 'Featured Work' part to 'Latest Work' and reorganized it a bit. Better? Worse?

Slowly getting there

looks better than the first composite.

it needs "something else"

"latest work" box needs more of a margin on its left side.