Ok thanks for all the comments so far. I have tried to take on board all your comments and have made some changes to both content and layout. Please let me know what you think.
1) I like the splashes image. However, I think you need to incorporate more nice pictures perhaps humans (yourself) to make it more lively and blog like. 2) the text is a bit hard to read. Can you increase the space between the lines? 3) Also those banners are a bit distracting if you care about visitors
Nice work m8 .. First of all it shows you have some theme on your mind. The blue color is pretty nice and the Ads By Google goes well with the theme. However, dont you think you need more widgets on the right? May be Recent Posts, Recent Comments, etc? A lot of people are interested in first reading the Post Titles and if they are interesting, they may click that post and read the whole post. What about having feedburner on the right? If someone really likes your blogs, they may like to subscribe to your feed. This is good to get them visiting your site over and again. Same goes with the footer of your blogs. Apart from that, if you write lengthy articles, I would advice you to use MORE. So that you can fit more articles on the main page. Hope this helps ya ... Good Luck ... Andy.
Thanks for the comments, i want to add more widgets on the side, and investigating RSS but know little about it at the mo. Is my add placement ok? should i use the adbrites too, ot is it too much.