agreed with all those points. However, I am a fan of the one suggestion to remove the "latest news" section from the homepage. As others have suggested, makes it look out of date, and puts a lot of pressure on the maintainer (i.e., @fluffypony) to keep the website looking fresh. Which is entirely not necessary. I hate to use the bitcoin as reference, but the bitcoin.org site does a good job.
For now, I think if we removed the "what is monero" and "latest news", and just shifted the three green blocks up, we would have a winner.
Now if I could just find where those are in the github.