I've been meaning to slightly re-jiggle my front page for a while now, and I think that it looks much better. Things I've done:

• Added 5 posts to homepage instead of 1
• Added hover effects to sidebar
• Added more sections to sidebar
• Added pages for tags, comments and stats.
• Changed the CSS for links to make them stand out from body text better
• Removed the image post headings - replaced with 20px Georgia with a CSS text shadow.
• Changed URLs for dynamic CSS, EG the custom or day based CSS changes (makes me happy and probs improves support for old browsers)
• • Was: /wp-content/themes/red-world/colour.php?style=[id]
  • Now: /wp-content/themes/red-world/dynamic-css/[id].css
• Added the custom/daily colour change to links + headings in sidebar
• Added an awesome magnifying icon to the sidebar search box