looks quite good to me. :) some suggestions: let the background image fade to black at the edges left and right, add eg 100px left and right for the fade, and center it. this way even very wide screens have a nice looking centered background. (that´s always the problem when using big bg images)

you could make the background (of the content) transparent black or white.

i´d style the text and links a bit. different font family and color.

the links to your own sites should open in a new window. otherwise you will lose every user to your sites.

i would center the headline.

but anyway, nice idea.

martin