[digitxp]

Hey,

Before I start critiquing, I have to say that it's really clear that the design emphasizes being clean and easy-to-understand extremely well. While I'm not a website judge, I do tend to be the guy who's stuck with jobs like finding recent photos of other teams (my team hosts a kickoff and a competition, and we always have a slick intro video), so I really do appreciate the design goals here.

That said, while this design is extremely clean, I find it a bit difficult to guide my eyes through the page. One of the most important parts of a web design is making sure that it's really obvious how important each part of the page is--for example, a blog may want to emphasize their sidebar which has links to other articles, while Wikipedia would want to emphasize their text since the sidebar isn't as important.

Fortunately, the design leaves a lot of room to emphasize certain parts. For example, it shouldn't be too hard to make the page title underneath the logo bigger so that your eye doesn't just jump over it, or make your header text a bit bigger so that your eye doesn't jump between that and the navigation links.

If you want to change up the layout of the site, I would strongly recommend you grasp at least a low-level understanding of web and graphic design principles. The Non-Designer's Guide to Design is a great starting point for the basic principles, and Smashing Magazine is a great site to search around to figure out how to apply them to web.

Good luck!