Banner is great. Probably look better if the text was more to the right. IDK i just think it needs work (the text). But yeah other than that it's pretty average. Head/Base edges are fuzzy. And there's too much white background for me, maybe try putting some hints of pinkish gray somewhere? But yeah all in all, it's a solid looking design. Copyright is pretty rad too.

Good luck!

Thanks. I'll work on some of the white space when I get the chance. Thanks for your comments.

As far as layout goes, it looks clean and simple, not crowded, messy, too bright/dark/colorful, busy. So good job on that. Color scheme is also nice, the skin matches the banner so good job on that. The banner looks a bit busy to me, but, that could just be me, I like fairly simple banners, but I do think that if it wasn't as "busy" it wouldn't look as nice, and it wouldn't match as far as the site itself is concerned. I think you did a good job.