ummm... well, the columns are all over the place.  Have you tested your site in a few resolutions/different browsers? 

Love the idea of being a printables resource!  That would be a huge help to tons of families!  I'd love to link to you in a future post (once you get your kinks ironed out and it updated from July).

Instead of an archive, can you add another way to search previous posts?  Maybe a category list or a nav bar with a few options?

hmm, I use firefox and IE to check out my blogs. are they really all wonky?

OK, I did some adjusting, are they better yet? They look fine for me on both FF and IE.

Quirky, what browser do you use? Is there another one that I should try out?

Also try out Safari and Chrome... most people will be using one of those 4 browsers.

Looks good to me.. on IE8

Somewhere on here I wrote a thread on how to check your site in different resolutions.

I'll dig it up for you tomorrow... till then, this is what I see.  Here are more in-depth thoughts:

Where do your eyes gravitate?  When you glance at the site is it obvious within 10 seconds that you are a place for free-printables (coloring pages and activity sheets)?

Think about your prime realestate (top and center).  One top left you have a bar that is very small font telling me how old your daughter is - how is that relevant to your readers as this is an informational blog?

In some areas you have red on green text, a big block of it.  Green red "confusion" is the number one form of colored blindness.  Many readers may not be able to read the words clearly if they are color blind.

Blog Archive is given prominence, over say follow buttons, or a way of finding the type of coloring pictures I have a hankering for that morning.

The stretch is unusual, not what people expect to see when they go to a website.  I think it was Rustin on here (I'll dig up the link later) who said we need to make sure the width of our pages was not wider than 1040 pxls.  If it is, it looks off on a lot of screens as it doesn't scale well.

...I would say a full re-design might be needed to make the site more professional looking and user friendly.  That said, the concept, a site devoted to free-printables, is something that the online preschool world needs a lot more of!  You are totally onto something!  I can't wait to see your finished product!  Can you find a site that works with printables and mimic them?  There has to be a free online patterns or another site out there doing something similar.  How are they organizing their printables?  How do they make it obvious that is what their site is about when you first get there?

Love the concept. I've already added you to my favorites. My kids will love all of the things I plan on printing for them. Looking forward to you adding more!

Good points and ideas Quirky.

I just changed the banner yesterday. Along with the blog title, it used to say "free activity & coloring pages, arts & crafts pages, nurturing creative minds with fun activities". There were no images, when I added the images I changed what the header said. Also, since I started, I added video links as well as recipes, so the banner got to be too cluttered. Have the navigation bar up now, didn't have time to do it last night.

I didn't have the Archive up until yesterday, I just added that because I didn't have time to to the navigation bar. I have deleted that when I added the nav bar.

I check my screen resolution with my mouse, I have the roll, clicky thing, hold ctrl key and roll one way to make screen bigger the other to make it smaller.

as far as the stretch, I think you have a much wider screen than I do and I always work with my bookmark sidebar open. I guess I always work to make sure everything fits on a smaller screen than on a larger.

All my blogs are the stretch template, I am going to try to find a way to reduce the stretch so it doesn't take up the whole screen if they have a large screen.

As far as the colors, my 8 yr old and 6 yr old picked them out...this is actually "their" blog. The really wanted to go wild with the colors lol and this is what we settled on. This is the toned down version. Many of the kids coloring pages are very colorful, bright and flashy. I am trying to attract children, so I had children help with the design.

When we start adding our own activities, recipes, even videos I will include pictures with them and they will be added to the sidebars.

I fixed the stretch...I never thought to to that with the stretch templates! It was like a light bulb going off. I just solved an issue I have been trying to figure out for months :)

Amazon.com is not working properly, it has been wonky all weekend, so there are wide open spaces where there should be an amazon store widget.

Great!  The layout is much easier on the eyes now!  Love your navigation bar!

I really would change the background from green or the font to a different color (not red/pink hues).  Roughly 10% of males will not be able to participate in your site if you stick with your current color scheme.  I was a school teacher and I was amazed at how many of my students were red-green colorblind.  They could not tell the difference between those colors.  So if you have red font on green they may not be able to read it.  Is there a way you can incorporate their colors without detracting from your site's usability?

Thanks, that is the same navigation bar that Jenn found and I use on all my other blogs.

I will talk to my kids about changed the colors a bit. There is something strange going on with Blogger right now, so I can't edit the colors now. I would also have to make a new header which I just did last night and don't have the time for now.

now that I have figured out the stretch issue I have been searching for, I am changing all of my blogs ;)