The footer should be litter smaller,seems like it is 140px but there is the empty space in the bottom of footer,use smaller value of footer height.
Colors are nice,they go into SplashDamage well!
The HOT NEWS border color is too light, I would use darker color like #e4e4e4 or #ccc(extrem case) or even #dbdbdb.
Also about the breadcrumbs in Splash Damage blog.
It would be good decision to take a look at this article/tutorial of CSS3 breadcrumbs http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-breadcrumbs
If you don’t understand where that bread shape comes,then take a look at this good article explaining this oldschool trick with borders: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/css-refreshers-borders/
[strike]However, these CSS3 breadcrumbs are not support in IE8/IE7/IE6 -.-[/strike]
EDIT: My mistake, they are.
But you can always use extra stylesheet for IE…
I did notice a gradient in footer,however then, please take a look at this: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
The orange radius gradient shoud look like this,just tweak the colors 
background: #ffa84c;
background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiA/Pgo8c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMCUiIGhlaWdodD0iMTAwJSIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEgMSIgcHJlc2VydmVBc3BlY3RSYXRpbz0ibm9uZSI+CiAgPHJhZGlhbEdyYWRpZW50IGlkPSJncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkIiBncmFkaWVudFVuaXRzPSJ1c2VyU3BhY2VPblVzZSIgY3g9IjUwJSIgY3k9IjUwJSIgcj0iNzUlIj4KICAgIDxzdG9wIG9mZnNldD0iMCUiIHN0b3AtY29sb3I9IiNmZmE4NGMiIHN0b3Atb3BhY2l0eT0iMSIvPgogICAgPHN0b3Agb2Zmc2V0PSIxMDAlIiBzdG9wLWNvbG9yPSIjZmY3YjBkIiBzdG9wLW9wYWNpdHk9IjEiLz4KICA8L3JhZGlhbEdyYWRpZW50PgogIDxyZWN0IHg9Ii01MCIgeT0iLTUwIiB3aWR0aD0iMTAxIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMSIgZmlsbD0idXJsKCNncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkKSIgLz4KPC9zdmc+);
background: -moz-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #ffa84c 0%, #ff7b0d 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(radial, center center, 0px, center center, 100%, color-stop(0%,#ffa84c), color-stop(100%,#ff7b0d));
background: -webkit-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #ffa84c 0%,#ff7b0d 100%);
background: -o-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #ffa84c 0%,#ff7b0d 100%);
background: -ms-radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #ffa84c 0%,#ff7b0d 100%);
background: radial-gradient(center, ellipse cover, #ffa84c 0%,#ff7b0d 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffa84c', endColorstr='#ff7b0d',GradientType=1 );
Over of all I like it still, just keep in mind, the font size would be bigger, because most of visitors have big screens and its not good to read at 13px font size 
Use the CSS media queries for that: http://css-tricks.com/css-media-queries/
Btw,use CSS3!!! IE 9 supports it,what else is needed, tough jQuery is for older IE versions than 9…
I forgoted to add that use sprites for images, it reduces HTTP requests: http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/
And don’t forget to compress CSS files and JS files! They are also downloaded to clients browser buffer :stroggtapir:
