I just wanted to offer a suggestion regarding the colour scheme - I personally found the blue menu bar on a blue background (with a blue search box) to be quite hard on the eyes; I think it would be worth spending a little time experimenting with different colours there. Maybe invert the menu bar, so it's mainly white with black text and a blue highlight for the current page? You could probably leave the search box as it is in that case.

Anyway, best of luck with the site :-)