This is second or maybe even tied with Caedes N2.1 in my opinion. This is totally awesome and well thought out in terms of functionality, and the colors are awesome; plain, like caedes is now, but different.

The only thing I would suggest, and I'm basing this off of what other people have said: Make it to where thumbnails appear above the Top New Image list, since there is plenty of room for it.

And now for the slight problem I think exists: it doesn't allow for too much room in the center since you added that right side sidebar. The middle should probably be a little wider to accomodate the gallery thumbnails. You would probably hardly fit 2 images, let alone 3, across the top unless you made them real small.

But awesome design, and I think those two things are the only "problems" and those are easily remedied.

agree, this is awesome design!
sorry for the short comment, but I like it a lot!

Very clean and symetrical, nice use of colours. If anything the typeface/logo for the 'caedes' title looks a bit plain. Good nevertheless.

Visually a very nice design but......
I would hate to have to write the code to make this work. Maybe far from impossible but most web designers would wish for graphic elements that were far easier to modulise.
That shadow of the Caedes logo would be hard to deal with across diverse design elements. There are many other issues as well. With some ajustment to practical issues it would be a very acceptable design for this site. Bob

Imaginative and very well done. :)