the caucus race

I've been working on a website latly for myself, and to put my more done projects up on, as opposed to my blog, where its more the process and me talking about them.
I have a website pretty much done that i finished in my web design class, but i'm not really happy with how it looks, i dont feel like it looks like my work, it's more of a black and white not interesting look. so i'm going to be working on a new site in the upcoming summer, and hopefully i'll have it up by the end of the summer. Here's 2 layouts of what the site i have now looks like.