| Some ideas: - As others have said, the font. - I get the whole "look like the front page of a real newspaper" vibe, but I think the contrast needs to be adjusted. - I feel like my eyes don't know where to look first. That's most likely foremost a contrast problem, but there's probably some other tweaks that need to be done. - The shape of your logo clashes with the implicit and explicit horizontal lines on the site. I don't know how to fix this short of getting rid of the jump in the logo. - The font on the nav bar is too thin for the very heavy background color. The result is that every link on the nav bar looks blurry... as if the background color is bleeding into the font glyphs. - The article meta-data takes up WAY too much vertical space. The chief offender seems to be the tweets list. I'd change this to one line. You already have an expander widget, so this wouldn't be too terrible on usability. To emphasize how many tweets there are, why not do a sparkline or "...and 47 others" at the end of the tweet line? - Get rid of the "newest" column. Put it below the fold under "Who's hiring in tech". You might also steal Reddit's idea of having a box up top where you have the newest stories on rotation. |