New design time!

Last time I was re-aligning but I think this time it has to count as a re-design. After feeling the urge to re-design the site a few times in recent months but never actually being able to come up with any decent ideas (why is it so much harder to design for yourself?), I've eventually plumped for ripping and modifiying the back-end design from the Rails content management system I'm working on. The previous design (above) was very much on the minimal side, with no images in the design (unless you count the strip of photos from flickr), even getting listed on Design Melt Down's Super Clean