New Layout Feedback

[suzumebachi]

Originally Posted by slijin

This.

You want people focused on the content of your website first and foremost; aesthetics are important, but they're still second. If you made the pattern less distinctive and more subtle, it could work - just remember that it's your background, not your foreground.

Yeah, basically. Some options would be to tone down the contrast between the two colors, lighten the saturation up or something, or just go with a solid color... I don't quite understand how the content is going to work in this layout, either, but I guess you'll have to give us an update for that.