Animated header experiment

What would you do differently in the attached experiment ?

I'd maybe center the text first off ... maybe in a 980px or 760px region in the middle ... and then those clouds that consist of three parts/balls, is there a way to make them look like one thing instead of three on top of each other ... (obviously I don't know exactly how you did this so I don't know how possible it is) ... Maybe also I'd use another font ...

I must admit, I am not usually a fan of animated headers, but this one is very soothing and I quite enjoy it actually ...

I bet if I reduce the contrast of the outline and dropshadow I'm using on the cloud-nuggets, the multi-nugget clouds would blend together a little better.

I dig that. Like r_t said, very soothing.

The "Site Title" text being white is hard to read when a cloud passes beneath it. Ooo! Wouldn't it be cool if the clouds passed over the text? I think it would add to the illusion, personally.

Just something to consider; IMO, it tends to be easier for reading when the block level elements line up vertically or show a hierarchy were sub elements are indented. That is to say the Site Title should share a verical axis with the elements below or be set slightly to the left of the the elements below.

I do like it. It reminds me of my iGoogle home page.

Pretty cool. I never would have thought to do an animation like that with Javascript. Would have used Flash to do it, similar to this tute
http://learn008.com/tutorials/flash/cloudanim.html

That's pretty neat, especially considering it's js.
Better sprites for the clouds with a 10-20% opacity black dropshadow would be the only thing to make it better imo.

Well,
I really like it. Its really well designed.
If you wouldn't mind, could I make a template out of this?

I would give credit to you, of course.