I am surprised that so many other people share your sentiment. While I understand everybody loves to be a critic, is it really that bad? To me, the layout of the site was actually somewhat intuitive, and there was only 1 possible place content could be... right in the middle of the page below all the welcoming stuff. It's just like all the other run-of-the-mill blog-like sites... welcoming stuff and main links at the top, content below that, and useless stuff like ads and twitter on the left and/or right.
