Looks fine to me, however it took a while to load.

Also, the article slide show thing doesn't work in Opera.

The front page is huge. It is probably the reason why everyone is mentioning the slow load time.

You have seperate sections for News, Features, Review, Media; and are showing six posts previews for news, and four previews each for feautres, reviews, and media. This totals to 18 post previews all on the front page (not including the slider at the top). Put the best article (or the latest) from each category into the slider at the top. Make one or two slides for each category max. The sidebar is pretty busy too. It looks like you decided to try out as many different modules as you could. I would take a lot of those modules off the sidebar completely.

Make your footer area smaller. The social media icons are small enough that they could all fit on one line no problem without interfering with your 'intelligerm' logo.

Last item I think should be changed is the search box. It doesn't line up with anything and looks out of place.

Aside from those changes, I think the design looks pretty good.

I hope this feedback helps.

P.S. I'm not trying to put you down, this is just my honest feedback.

Thanks for the insight guys.

Any before this topic goes any further... Feedback , brutal feedback is what I am looking for.

I've been a knockaround guy on the web (first as a writer, now as a designer) for a few years now.

Get at critical as you can, without it I can get no better.

Ill take some of the pages down this weekend. Any suggestion on what side bars are unessesary?

I made a few changes dealing with the some of the suggestions in this thread.

Another look please?

I made the change to the Images, seemed like it was just a switch.

I think the page load faster now.

I will work on the footer in a litle bit.

Thanks for the insight.

Load time could be an issue. But other than that, there is nothing wrong with the design and layout of the website.

From the marketing perspective, you will want to focus the link building and social media efforts on specific articles, podcast episodes, game reviews, etc.

If you are still getting a high bounce rate after the "website loading time" issue is fixed then you can look at offering some sort of incentive for visitors that enter the website from the home page rather than one of the article pages. Website visitors have a really short attention span, if the bounce rate is still high then the home page is most likely, not doing it's job and capturing the visitors' attention.

I hope that this helps!

ANy examples on what sites invite visitors to enter the site via the home page?

Made soem more changes, would love to hear some ideas.

Thanks to you guys, the bounce rate has dropped 20%

its look rugged, but take a whole time to load especially when on a slow server i wonder when its going to come up.......but the fact is it look neat and calm.............

For your load time use minify it can speed your site up, its do your css,js files smaller

Load time is more than usual also hangs up. I don't now why but It would be due to flash or css