To me, that doesn't really grab my attention at all if I had a question or was new. It should say:

New Members check here before asking a question.

Or just "Check here before asking a question." And then inside, at the top have:

If you do not see your answer here, SEARCH the archives. If you do not find your answer there, you may post your question. There is 95% chance your question has been answered.

Or something like that in my opinion..

edit- I just saw that you do have "Newbies: Please read here before you post." but I didn't even see that, I've never seen that lol. And I don't think the new people do either..