I'm working on a total redesign of what was a personal blog and is now going to be an online magazine with multiple columns in different sections.
Don't delve too deep, as it all falls apart and a lot of the functionality that will be there, simply isn't yet.
I'd really really like some feedback on the index page though.
Thanks, John
Edit: and the url is http://www.therub.net
At first glance, I think it looks good. I do have a few suggestions, though.
The white box on the left - try skippeng that, so that the buttons are directly on the dark background, possibly with just a border - I think that would be a little more consistent.
I think you should try fading the images in the six large boxes a little more - some of the text is a little hard to read, specially in the Writing-box.
If you could also get the same amount of space between the large boxes and the menu to the left, it would be perfect. Or maybe it already is, I can't really judge that because of the white border...
Other than that, I think it looks... Well, the only word I can think of to really describe it is "inviting!" :-)