The second one is broken in FireFox Mac 3.0

I personally like the first one. I also think you make heavy use of drop shadow and beveling effects. This is most likely preventing you from designing the website but rather wasting your time tinkering with the photoshop plug-ins.

Have you tried to reproduce a bevel effect without the plug-in? I find that once a designer can remove their dependencies from plug-ins they simply start to make better overall designs.

I am no hotshot designer. Just trying to help.

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