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I'm a fan of minimal designs. So forgive me if you think its too simple.

My main idea was structure, structure, structure. I've finally came up with this very minimal design.

The main three colours(colors) are, white, black and grey(gray).

I've used valid CSS and valid XHTML. I made sure that it was cross browser, I haven't tried it in IE 6 but it works great in Firefox 3.5++, Safari, Internet Explorer 7++, Chrome 4++, Opera and Safari for iPhone.

I'm focusing totally on content.

http://manmohanjit.com/

<3 Ajax.

Updates:

1. Removed the full site Ajax

2. Reduced the font-weight for sidebar blocks titles.

3. Worked out the comments/searchbox gradients.

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1. ajax will lower your page view count, which is good for pagerank,

2. design is good, but you would clearly separate sections and page background from each other to maximize user focus. (try darker background colour, not for content, like neowin) Left side of the page is attracting attention more than body section

3. if it's minimal, remove search box's gradient view too ;)

good luck ;)

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You could get away with a gradient, which would help separate components on a page and improve design.

It would reduce minimalism, but still maintain your b/w colour scheme.

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It looks ok, it's a bit plain but that is probably intended.

It's also not perfectly valid XHTML (wrong content-type, wrong entities), but that's not really that important (it renders in standards mode, so meh)

http://validator.nu/...xml&laxtype=yes

I checked it on the W3 Markup Validator, it validated fine :)

i like it! too bad you got banned though...

I'm not banned, was trying to look cool :blush:

Thanks for the great feedback.

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Yeah, the W3C's validator isn't that good, the validator.nu one is much better (it'll pick up errors the W3C one will ignore)

Didn't know that, thanks anyway.

Hopefully I'll fix those errors :shifty:

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My biggest issue with your layout, which is really nice, is the lack of any smooth color transition. Consider adding in a gradient, say a light grey to white as a background element somewhere. It will help your page blend together better and keeps it from looking too plain.

I would also spruce up with just a TAD more color... Maybe with body links or something like that :) A vibrant green would be nice.

You might consider adding a couple icons (twitter, etc.) to your sidebar on the left...

Cheers! :D

-- unintentional

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