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Hey Brian!

The site is looking great, congrats on launching.

A few things I could suggest:

Same height for post boxes: I'm using the Gazette theme too at mustangdaily.net, and I know it's kind of a pain to get those boxes lined up. It's really a matter of tailoring the headlines/excerpts to fit. The rule of thumb we go by is four lines headline + three lines excerpt or vice versa, and it usually lines up. It's extra work to tailor the excerpts and headlines, but it's worth it to avoid goofy unalignment. Another thing I've done to mitigate this problem is change the default excerpt length down to 35 words (you can change that setting in formatting.php).

Fixing the PagePeel ad:  I noticed the Page Peel ad you're using doesn't work in IE. That's the same one I was using, and there was a fix for it I found in a forum, but I recently realized it makes the search do something funky (I don't know how they're related; probably because they overlap). There's this German (or something) plugin with a similar pagepeel, but you have to guess at what you're filling in on the settings page haha. It works in all browsers though: http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/…..el-plugin/

Big slideshow:  Because your top banner ad pushes the content down 100 pixels and the slideshow is tall, I don't see any other content on your page without having to scroll down.  It's not too big of a deal and it will vary depending on monitor resolution, but it's somethiing to think about. 

Author pages: If you want a simple fix for the author pages, there is a template here you can use:  http://codex.wordpress.org/Aut….._Templates. It'll look like this for individual authors: http://mustangdaily.net/author…..enRabaino/

That's all I have for ya for now.