Keep up your great job!

Love the tag cloud. I’d put one on my blog if I knew how. It looks much better than a category list.

As for the few comments suggesting you use more color. I don’t agree. Background colors, unless they are a very muted gray tone doesn’t cut it for me. I like white space. Using color just for the sake of prettying up a blog makes no sense. Every element on a site (to include color) should serve a purpose. In other words, form should always follow function. Anything extraneous only further detracts from the content.

I agree with Doug above – I think it could use some more colour. Nothing too ferocious, but maybe just a background colour for your pages, or a background colour to your header.

Also – on my 14 inch laptop screen I need to scroll right, which is caused by your ‘feed me’ elephant cartoon character at the top right. Apart from that image all the other content is on the visible screen.

I just realised that elephant was an RSS feed icon! My further suggestion is that you make the RSS feed link more easily recognisable. I completely missed the point of the elephant!

Also – you may want to check out Feedburner.com and the feedburner feedsmith plugin. Both are good ways to make your feed as widely readable as possible, plus with feedburner you can allow people to get your RSS updates via email – good for people who are just starting out and not necessarily into RSS yet.

Hope that’s helpful, and good luck with the blog!

Cheers,

Martin.

Best of luck with your blog. Looks pretty good so far.