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I like the orange bar on the side, nice colors.

Nice, clean and simple :)
i really like the rectangle saying "now for only..." behind the orange bar...
its a newspaper right?

Now that I think of it, perhaps I should have gone further with a detailed newspaper look.
It was actually a quick improvisation - needed an area very visible to display pricing for visitors. :)

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looks clean and accessible.
i have only technical mentions though.
the orange bar on the right, has a vertical gradient.
and that can be implemented in two ways.

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either you have a precised fixed height for the page. and that is kinda hard and awkward, because you're dealing with lines of text and they can not be counted exactly.

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or you'll have to adjust the gradient at some point, so that it becomes a full color. so it goes from bright red to dark red, for like 400px (the potentially min height of your page), then its all the way dark red to the bottom. or vice-versa its all the way bright red, until at the bottom, where you have the gradient.

i hope im being clear.

also, the top block of the site, i mean everything thats above the 1st "Comment title" that has to be fixed too. that might create a problem with the top-left article. it cant be bigger than it is now.

and there's a problem on the right side, with the price sticker. the bottom part of the price sticker has to be above the 1st "Comment title". because the comment has to stay in a stretchable zone while the sticker in a fixed one.

i mean, it might be there a way to implement this beauty, but surely it wont be straightforward.

anyways, the good news is that you wont spoil the design by correcting this.
the look is still there.

good work, have fun implementing it

take care

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i think itd be very nice if you used FIXED positioning for the sidebar ;)