+ More contrast than the previous version
+ Not so much inner glow
+ Not that many 'in-your-face- strokes around everything
+ Better menu layout. One place to navigate is more than enough when you don't have a lot of content
= I suggest having uniform menu titles. Or go with the usual Home/Work/Contact/About Us or do everything in the other style: Where to start/What we've done/Who we are/How to reach us
= I don't know how much content you will have but if there's not that many I'd merge About Us and Contact
- "Logo" on the first page was better (no stroke and bolder text)
- I would lose or decrease the blur around your menu. It makes your menu look like a part of the background image and doesn't really look interactive
- I would make the text in the buttons a bit smaller and make the bodytext a bit larger.
- What's the deal with the images. Why is only one active. They look like thumbs but there isn't a proper size image.
- I'd split the body into two columns or make the whole site a bit less wide. One line has too many words with this font size.
- Why the background and borders around the titles on the right? It looks clunky.
- More vertical whitespace would do wonders for scanning your site. Also make more use of color and size (already did that on certain places) to differentiate in importance.
- I'd make the date stamp to left align with the text.