FROM NEWBIE: I've set up a website and need some feedback and guidance

Hello Fellow Warriors.

Since I've joined the forum I've made a little research, bought a manual, picked up a niche and started to create a landpage.

Well to be honest, the whole landpage ended up as a whole article based website (maybe this is because of my background .. I used to be a webmaster/web-designer).

Anyway, I am here to show it off for you, so you can give me some support or critisize. Well basically I'm looking for some guidance of what can I do with my website to make it better and therefore make me some money.

Right now I've made a homepage only nothing else works, so don't try to press any links, but soon I will add all the articles I have and some reviews that I wrote.

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Thanx.


EDIT::

Ok, I have some more questions for you.

Let's put the layout aside and actually talk about the content.

The goal of the website is to drive traffic to the product-selling websites through affiliate links I will post on the review section.
The thing is that I need my website to convince the buyer to actually buy something, and not just press the banner or a link.

So the queations are these:
- As you can see I have a review block at the bottom of the page, where user will pick a website and read a review about it and only THEN will click on a link if he makes a desicion to buy anything, this way I'm not really pushing a person to buy anything, but just presenting the product in a good light and providing a value in giving a honest review I made, so the client can take his time and think on his decision before he actually buys anything.
Is this a right thing to do in terms of increasing sales?

But I also have a banner section, and the idea was to have 4 banners rotating there with products I am promoting, and with my affiliate links ofcourse. BUT, I actually doubt about the banner, because I'm not sure if it will convert to a sale. What is your take on that? Should I leave the banner? Or? Should I maybe insert a "Google-Ads" there, instead?

The next thing is a e-book. I have an idea of making a subscription list with a news letter, and to motivate visitors I'm planing to give away a free e-book. So do you have any tips on writing short e-books to help my promotions?

Is there anything else I can add to my website or modify the content to increase the conversion level?

And do you see any additional ways to make money with my future website?

Thanx again. Valentine.