Request for feedback

[ksmith]

Webmistress Ruta and I are looking for feedback on the new design for my website. Twigs or no twigs? Too dark or okay, how do the colors and texture look?

This one is plainer: http://www.kristine-smith.com/newsite/index-green2.htm

This one has twigs on the home page: http://www.kristine-smith.com/newsite/index-green-branches.htm

Both home pages link to a test page and the writer's corner page. But nothing links back to the home page with twigs, both inner pages link back to the plain home page.

None of the pages are complete, of course. We're testing colors and look. The site looks lighter on the Mac than in most Windows or Linux machines.

Thanks!