Never design to your monitor but to the most common monitor used on the web (currently 1024 x 768); otherwise you end up with what you have ended up with!
I personally have no issues with the man popping up and the design is clean and easy to read. Navigation is clear and precise.
You are the second person I have seen post a screenshot of a design. So, my question is; what are you using as a design tool? If it is a web tool (Dreamweaver, notepad2, etc) then this is coded and surely you have a small webspace area you could post it to for us to check the basic code structure?
If you are using something else for the design that is not web-focused then your design may or may not work effectively the way you hope.
Your site should be very easy to code and still retain your design ideas without sacrificing bandwidth. Simply would be nice to review a website rather than a screenshot.