It's design is fine though I didn't like the idea of hiding out article content which instead must be prioritized. Also categories overwhelmingly take the larger spot in page which should be corrected. It is a new site and you don't even have articles on respective categories as well so unless you have the articles for those remove them and only put important ones.
I think ist good, but why dont you try with a magazine theme? and besides that i do not if its mi coneecction but it loads slow, that can hurt your position in google, because if traffic increase, it would be a big problem.
Hi, nice article site. The theme looks so blog, you should find a theme with a featured article at homepage, see articlebase.com, they display the category list at the sidebar instead at the bottom.