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Permalink Reply by lvlc @ FromMomToMom on May 23, 2009 at 9:37pm

If you would like to stop mine too... http://frommomtomom.blogspot.com

First of all... I love your girl's pictures. She is BEAUTIFUL!

What I noticed right away... there are empty spots in the layout that you might want to fill up with buttons of places you like, advertisements, favorite pictures, I don't know... but don't leave them empty because it looks incomplete. Other than that, I love your label topics, and I would recommend to post just like 3 posts per page in the home page (this you can control in the Settings tab in Blogger).

Ah.. and there is a place that explains you how to remove the blogger header on top, to make it look like any other website and I truly recommend this site to you since I learned a lot of tricks and tips from there:
http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/

Hope this helps! :)

I am a follower! :)

Permalink Reply by ~Jamie on May 23, 2009 at 10:07pm

The layout is a bit odd, I had to scroll down quite a bit to find your posts. Also your "about me" is not written in first person, why not?

Permalink Reply by Tiffany on May 23, 2009 at 10:32pm

Cute site, but I would put things like "about me" and google friend connect on your sidebar. A 3 column template might be something you'd want to look into.
I had one when I was on blogger: Here's my old template: http://www.babesandkids.blogspot.com

Permalink Reply by Molly Tomlinson on May 23, 2009 at 10:48pm

Thanks everybody...keep them coming!

Leyda - Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm following you now too!

Jamie - The post should be right at the top...you shouldn't have to scroll at all...? For the about me, I just have an old bio in there that I used for another writing job. Now that you are mentioning it, I don't think I've ever seen anyone else with an about me in the 3rd person. Thanks!

Tiffany - I thought that was a three column template! What do you mean?

Permalink Reply by Karen on May 23, 2009 at 11:09pm

I would definitely subscribe to your blog. Beautiful photos of your daughter, clean layout looks like all the pieces are in the right place to me. Good Job.

Permalink Reply by Molly Tomlinson on May 23, 2009 at 11:12pm

Okay, so now I've had two people tell me that they had to scroll to find my posts.

I'm totally confused - When I view my blog, I have three columns - with the middle column showing my posts. How are you all seeing it?

Do you think it could be a browser issue?

Permalink Reply by Kim Kihega on May 24, 2009 at 1:38am

I think the layout is a bit stretched out. I think there should be columns. But, other than that, pretty nice. Scrolling down so far is a bit weird to me, at least.

Permalink Reply by Molly Tomlinson on May 24, 2009 at 7:53am

For those of you who have to scroll to see my posts - what browser are you using?

I'm really glad I started this thread - I had no idea people were seeing a distorted version of my site.

On my browser (IE), I have three columns with the posts right up at the top, like a normal blog. I'm just trying to figure out what is causing people to see a wierd version of my site.

Permalink Reply by Karen on May 24, 2009 at 12:51pm

I am using IE 7 and I see 3 columns where they should be. I opened Firefox and the columns were skewed.

Permalink Reply by Molly Tomlinson on May 24, 2009 at 2:40pm

Thanks, Karen. That's what I was afraid of.

Does anyone know how to configure your template to be compatible with both IE and FF?