QUOTE(PsychoCoder @ 24 May, 2008 - 11:51 PM)

Well I am creating myself a new site, mostly for blogging. I was wondering if I could get some
input on how I have this set up and more.
Thanks

I actually like the header with the lighter purple/black color scheme. I think that's a clever header design. But, I've got the same overlapping content problem as a prior reviewer. I'm running FF2 with 1280x768 res. I took the liberty of
validating your CSS and it didn't validate as valid 2.1, so I think that's where some people (like me) are having that overlap issue. In higher resolutions you'd have plenty of screen size to not notice the overlap, but it's a problem at more modest resolutions.
Be careful of the darker purple links on the black background as far as contrast goes. Other than that, I think it's a quite promising design.