The big square ad underneath search bar at the top on all pages needs to go and the 'read more' blocks need to be positioned a bit more evenly. Alos, you might want to rearrange the sidebars so that the most important stuff appears near the top and those little scissor icons just don't fit the theme of the site. You have a good idea, but just tweak at it more...view other sites in your niche that gets tons of traffic to see what viewers really like:wink:
just some suggestions...