I also think you should make the hole where you see the current page bigger it just seems so small right now and the art would look nicer then the plant thing below it
The white text does look kinda of bad but o well you might think about moving the rss feed, share, and twitter buttons some where more out of the way and just make the links to important things bigger and taking up its place they links seem kind of small.
it does seem to be vary wide i looked at in on my non wide screen monitor and it cuts of all of the right most ad. you might think of making things smaller in width or changing the money add to the right side so people see it more.
all in all your front page in now leaps and bounds better then the old one



