I agree, it looks a bit cluttered. Can you reduce the size of the ads a bit? Also, it may be my computer, but your live area is not filling up the entire page, or so it seems. I know nothing about web site creation, so I don't know what's up with that (I'm on a Mac, too, so maybe that's the problem?) Having a hot link to the newsletter sign up seems like a good idea and you'll save a lot of space that way.