Terri - it's a darned site/sight better than mine, which is a twee pile of pants that could do with flushing down the cyber-khazi.
Mary in KY's got some good pointers there, though. One of the most important things for a clean a site is consistency (and no, yer daft bint, I don't mean how sticky it is!).
Start with a basic grid-based template and use it for each page, with the universal links-set in the same place on each page, and the same background on each if possible. You don't have to use frames or anything like that - in fact, the cleaner and simpler the HTML is, the better for most browsers. However, if you break up the page vertically as well as horizontally, it's easier on the eye - Mary's suggestion of columns is good (though don't have columns that require you to scroll down and then bounce up again to get to the top of the next one - and remember that font size is often set by the browser, so what looks fine on your screen in preview may not work on someone else's machine)
It's one of those areas where simplest is best - fonts, rules, wingdings or whatever should be disciplined, madam; made to understand that they can't just go wild and run around unchecked! Ahem. Sorry, authoritarian tendencies showing there...
But I sure ain't pissing on the parade - you've done a heck of a lot more than most people in just getting the thing up there in the first place! And 186 hits in a couple of days isn't bad. Think of what you've saved in stamps and phone calls... Attagirl!