Dawning Light

I like the picture at the top, but it's a pity that it's cut off left/right and not flush with the top edge of the page. You could try making it fade out left/right onto a horizontally repeated background image, on which the picture would be layered.

There's also a weird Mozilla issue on my side: when I hover or select certain parts, they move down-right 2 pixels. I've never seen this bug before though, so I have no idea what's triggering that.

As far as the layout goes, it's pretty nice, but a bit too cramped for my tastes, especially in the center: try to separate each post with a generous margin, as this helps visitors grasp the structure of what they're seeing more easily.

Color-wise it's quite nice, but I think the background for the center area is a bit too dark for comfortable reading. The site's name is "dawning light", but aside from the picture it's pretty gloomy. Consider brightening it, or even adding a soft 100-200px high vertical gradient at the top (as if the sun is shining down on the page). I'd also brighten the sidebars a bit, but less than the center area (so you get a simple, non-intrusive indication of what parts are more important that others).

And finally, I really don't like how you gave the form elements the same background color as their surroundings, as this makes them less visible. I'd make them at least somewhat different.

The 3D bevels of the page also seem a bit too heavy and a bit too gray. Some areas are ambiguous as far as in-or-out goes. If I look at the bottom-left corner, I get the impression that the left sidebar has a inset bevel rather than an outset one.

PS: I just took a look at your site in Internet Explorer and it looks quite different from in Mozilla. One thing to remember about CSS is that the different browsers often have different defaults for values (such as border-color) and that they sometimes interpret non-exact values (like "medium" or "groove") slightly differently.

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