about the layout

Oh God, I did it. This is my entry for Megori's Color Me Crazy contest. I feel so ~~crazy~~; I've wanted to do a layout for this contest since the first time I read the rules, but I wasn't very sure about that, because my skills thouroughly suck and I felt I wasn't up to the task. Then, I decided to give it a try - since contests are a way to test your limits - and I got down these images, featuring Hirotaka Kisaragi's manga Brother X Brother, to start working. I spent like 6 hours on this, because I couldn't find the right red tones to match the image; I only got it when I reckoned to be more flexible about colors and put in some violets and similar.
In the end, the color theme is ~~complementary (I think) red and violet~~ analogous with orange, red and violet and the excluded color is blue; the design is a div, working in both IE8 and Firefox with a 1024x768 or higher.

Bold, italic, underlined, ~~strikethrough~~, sample link