Drastic site layout design change

You may have noticed that the layout of the site has changed considerably. Here's my reasoning for the changes...

I've always hated having all of those links hogging 150 pixels of the screen on the left all of the time. It takes away from space where artwork and writing should go. It also causes artwork to get cut off of the screen on some resolutions. I was trying to find a way to have all of those links horizontally and not take up too much space. The result was drop down menus. I had considered DHTML but I'm not sure how well google will read those. I'm also not sure how google will handle the drop down menues I've added but will give it a try. If my site traffic drops considerably during the month of April, then I'll change it back and possibly look into another alternative. The site is still a little messy here and there. I haven't had the chance to clean up the mess that the site change has caused. Let me know what you think of these changes and if you have any suggestions for making it better. :)