@Garry, cheers for that

@Jav, the bottom ad is meant to cross into the right sidebar other wise it wouldn’t fit, it can look odd though as it has 2 different background colors

@SL - The theme was designed by a professional though I have modified it a little bit. I’ve had 2 pro designers work on it and then I choose what I thought looked best. I’ll check out the lineheight. Once the kinks are ironed out of this one I’ll let it run for a bit and see what other feeedback comes in. Thanks so much for your feedback.

@braz - Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion braz. I know what you mean about a lot of blogs being 3 column nowadays, the problem I had was I needed more sidebar space and it seemed like the sensible option

@Colm - I’ve seen the problem just looking for the fix now.

@Rob - It was designed by a pro, though my tinkering may of spoilelt the look a bit. I have invested a good few $K into this, one of the designs I received ended up being thrown away.

Hate to say it (I currently do all my own development, but look forward to the day that I don’t have to), but with the money generated, isn’t it worth a few £K to get a professional involved? It can look fantastic as well as be functional.

On IE6 your sidebar is below the posts - Looks fine in Firefox (don’t have IE7 on the work laptop)

The Forums/Get in Touch/About bar is not sitting correctly in IE6 the top is slightly hidden by the “welcome to coolest Gadgets” Firefox ad. The top of the letters are hidden so you can not see the top of the letter “F” in Forums for example.

Hope this helps, I’ll do screen shots if needed just email me back.

Colm

finally got my bluetooth headset working with my iPhone, six months after the fact, and not too soon might I add….

Don’t like the new look of CG.

old one was the best and unique.

The new looks boring like any other blog.

More or less every blog is 3 catergory with categories on the left.

Search word is not aligned in the field.

There are lot more things a good tester can see I guess.

-the firefox notification on top is not helping anyone. The theme should look right accross all browsers. The theme itself is not as good as it could be for sure. If I had as many subscribers as CG does, I’d definitely hire a professional to make something great.
-Adding the lineheight property to your text will make things a lot easier to read for your users. Very easy to implement too. Also, going with your colors, I’d switch things around and make the headers red, and the links blue.

Yeah, overall, I’d hire a really great designer to make your site look like a champion (and a champion in all browsers too)

I love this blog btw. One of the better make money online ones.

It also looks like you have 42 external javascript files to load and 10 external stylesheets according to the YSlow Firefox extension. That could explain the speed issue.

IE6 does look a tad problematic though. Both CSS and Javascript possibly. Maybe some more condition statements in the html for IE6 could be used to sort those issues.