Let's go one by one:

1. The theme wasn't designed by me. As soon as I get around to creating one, I'll create a purely CSS-based theme. I don't like using tables for anything but tabular data, too.

2. WebGyver, there is, indeed, a necessity to determine the balance for a particular website. As I have said in this and another article I wrote about using graphics, some sites just absolutely need those graphics, high resolution close-up photos and such.

The key point is here that the graphics (or any media) should be used only when absolutely necessary - to improve readers/visitors convenience.

3. I'd like to know what makes the article hard to read. Too wide, I hear?

When I had only one page on the site, I did have the width slightly less than it is now. I'll see what I can do to improve.

Any more hints to make the article/blog more readable?

That being said, I'd like to say that I did try to make the article readable. And it is more comprehensible, than most of the web-published one-paragraph, small-font text. I'd figure the article is kinda long (and wide :) ), which makes it hard to read?

4. The key point here is using necessary graphics. Mostly, there are a lot of distractions on pages (such as many visual effects), which don't help much. If the image is relevant to the page and helps to improve understanding, of course it should be used.

5. Yes, right now, the only graphics I use are the social bookmarking buttons and my photo (which isn't well connected after yesterdays/todays insurge of visitors).

Thank you for commenting, all, feel free to point out how I can make the article/blog more readable.