All due respect Tom, I thought yours was pretty cool, but it's great when a professional gets involved.
I've built a few websites in my time, and I spend weeks doing an OK job of the design. A friend of mine spends 30 minutes with the right tools and some skill and produces designs that kill me. They look cleaner, better coloured, better fonts, clearer, just more professional. He of course feels the same way about designers he works with.
I don't mean to suggest you're anything like me, it's just great to see what the professionals can do.