Looking good! 

I use 1280x1024 resolution and the site is partially blocked when I have my sidebar on.
So basically I have to do sideways scrolling or close the sidebar. The problem is that there is lots of free space and I should not have to scroll.

I also notice this on your site...


Asking your visitors to change resolution is a big deal, I would suggest you remove that and try to tweak your site instead.

I like the look though 

Its the firefox sidebar

Honestly though, if I had not talked to you here and just surfed into your site I would have left because I could not read a thing without sideways scrolling.

Then imagine on top of that the author of the site asking you to change screen resolution. What are the odds of anyone messing with their system setting just to view a site.

I only know html and don't know much about other ways of making websites but I sure liked using tables and setting them to the desired screen width. Lets say something like 80% of the screen.

I'm not sure why you have your limitations and the only point I'm trying to make is that the average user will consider it too much work and click to the next site. Of course your hard core fans will stay until you find a fix.