agreed with kaiserlogy.
though a website's functionality is the most important of all. Without any functions, the site is nothing. However if a site has no graphics, it's gave not a good first impression. Well, that also depends on what kinda genre ur site is.

bidayuh.info
mysarawak.org

nothing much can be done to this 2 sites especially the search engine. As for the blog, depends on what is ur approach, but for now is enuff using the default layout.

getshare.us
site like this i agree that minimal graphics is best. But still u need to sectionize everything properly and clear. (unless ur purpose is to confuse user to accidently click on ur google ads)

gothlair.net
though the sectionize is there and clear, but the color matching is not at its best also the positioning of each those sections are not very good.

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