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No real in-depth comments, so I'm obligated to spend the next 15 minutes writing this post and dissecting your website! Hurray!
First Impressions
"All of the elements are nice...but they don't really fit together..."
Design
The background is nice. The logo is nice. The navigation is nice. The separation is nice, and the typography is nice, but...they don't fit. It seems like you went out, read a bunch of tutorials, and threw them together. Now that you have the skill, start applying your style. You have a style in all aspects of your artistic self. This includes your drawing, writing, speaking, and ultimately designing in relation to the internet. Right now i think of you as a person who went to banana republic, bought some very nice clothes, and wore them when they didn't match.
Some suggestions: Match the hex colors (#fffff) in the logo, background, or navigation with those of the other elements. Pick a color scheme, and work within it. Color schemes can have 3 to maybe 10+ colors, but they have to work together, and usually, every color/shade is given an associated element. As for the actual elements themselves, the mac OS nav is cool, and the tabs are cool, but they're just kind of doing their own thing. They need bonding!
If you can make the navigation images more scaleable, that'd be good. Try working downwards, or rather, resize them from the large size when they're sitting still, and have them come up to the original size when you hover. I hope that makes sense...Shrink, don't grow.
Your contact link doesn't work. As well, the links have no style to them, except for the table. Why not add some? (and make it work with the other elements!) Finally, if you want to go for extra polish, style your input box with some CSS.
Engine
The engine is cool, haha. The listen took a little longer to load then I thought it would, but not so long that I was like, "fsck it!" I like how the results are styled too. Now, can I suggest just keeping the "buy it!" link? Otherwise, you're pretty much trafficking pirated music here. Why even have the buy it link if I can download a nice quality version for free?
As well, if you're an audio download search engine, why have movies, files, and pictures? I'm not saying you shouldn't, I'm saying up play the audio aspects.
Script
Uh? What script?
Overall
So yes, work on polishing and really put some effort into making it your own! The foundation is great, now add some embellishments. Good luck with your project.
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