New Design - Any Suggestions?

Hey everyone,
I was wondering what you all thought about this design change: http://www.kirupa.com/newdesign/index.htm Making these changes to the site will only take a few hours at most, for all of the navigation is loaded from a few individual pages.

The footer is also different, but I’m already using the new footer on the site to replace the old one which is still used on the forums.

Thanks!
Kirupa =)