Not to be rude but that banner of yours is quite crappy. The lightning source on the renders fails and the strokes around those are unnecessary. Reducing opacity isn't good as well. You could probably go without any renders, except for the city stock, you would just have to focus on the font, it's awful.
The orange background hurts my eyes badly (well, it could have been worse, you could've chosen red which would be an instant kill~). The buttons on the left just won't do. You get the feeling that they should stick to each other or be very, very close (not more than 3 pixels). The lower right corner when that overlayed character on the background is makes the text not too readable. News box - links with just the title of it won't do. I really love to read announcments when they are on the main page (reffer to the PSIblade main page), and when they are really often updated (gives the feeling of a lively server). Maybe try making it without the space on the top? You know, where the 'border' above the banner is where you can see the background.
It gives a quite bad impression as well. But I'll be really nice and judge that main page as average- at most. If it improves in time I might even not be discouraged by it and see what lies inside~
