On first impression, I like your old site better. 
That’s mostly to do with the new site not being centered, it only covers the left 2/3 of my screen. I also second the ‘floating’ comment of Bepster. It might be nice to have the columns of text on the left and right relate to each other. Lots of unused white space to the right of the first logo, seems a waste. And I feel you need a top menu bar or something, but that might just be expectation because it’s such a familiar element on other sites.
Looking forward to where you’ll go with it! And also huge respect for you and your body of work!