Mark-Barry

Hey Steve,
 
There's a few changes that I think would make it look better:
 
1. The background doesn't work too well I'm afraid. On my monitor I can see it repeating horizontally, which only looks good for tiled patterns. Either get an entirely new image - something with a really large width, and preferably one that blends to a solid color on each side. That way you center the background image and set the page's background color as the solid color from before.
 
2. The negative spaces are really interesting from the combinations of rounded corners and flat corners. However it would look so much better if the border lines were aliased better.
 
3. Finally, on the main text in 'about us' and 'services', I reckon there could be 15px padding on the right hand side.
 
Hope that helps a bit.

This is probably a sign that you need to step back and spend some time copywriting before you design. You can't design without content, it's the foundation of communication (design).
 
Before you do any design changes I suggest writing out all the content for each page you plan on having. Write a lot of stuff, then brutally edit it down to the bare minimum to get your message and personal style across. Then edit again just to be sure.
 
After you have some good copy ready, sketch out each page. Try to forget about what you have now, you might find that something new comes to mind.
 
Then, after you have finished your sketches compare to what you have now and what people have suggested for criticism. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the results.
 
Content -> Sketches -> Design. Work from the inside out instead of the outside in.

Huge improvement.
 
I like the addition of that new brownish colour. I wonder if you could include that into the other pages a little too. Just feels more warm and welcoming with it. Or perhaps use the orange from the bunny in the logo to complement the blue.
 
Anyways, good work!
 
EDIT: One more thing, the website right now doesn't show exactly which page you're on. I figure a good way of introducing the colour throughout the rest of the pages would be to make the active page this new colour in the navigation.

Hey Dave.
 
I have nothing major against the site except that everything seems too big. The width for example, 1250 pixels means people with monitor screens of 1024x768 pixels will never even see the left and right of border design you created.
 
I would squish everything down a bit, making the maximum width something like 960 or 980 pixels. I think the whole site would look more professional that way too.