I would love some input!

Hi everyone. I'm a new webmaster hoping to get a little input. I've been studying web design for a while but still consider myself a complete novice. I just started my site http://www.jobsallover.com. It's a site that gives people ideas on ways to supplement their income and make some extra money. The content is pretty weak currently, but I'm not worried about that I have huge improvements coming in that area.

What do you all think of the design? I'm hoping for some helpful input from a few experts, maybe some ideas on what could work better. I am thinking of eventually adding a top navigation bar when I get a little more content.
Check it out at http://www.jobsallover.com


Any input is greatly appreciated!

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Please review my site http://www.jobsallover.com

Hi JobsAllOver, welcome to Elated forums.

Your website is fine. It's simple and easy to navigate and I like the colorscheme too. Well done.

That said, I think you'd need a proper logo. Then I think I'd prefer if all your menu links where on one side giving space for your more content on each topic covered. Also, I'd think you should get a customized email address on your domain and not be using Gmail as your contact email. Also put some physical contact info on your website (phone, office address etc).

All-in-all, I'd say you did a good job on this attempt. I'm just focusing on the front-end here and not your coding.

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http://www.mauconline.net

hi jobsallover,

this is just my opinion, i got to your site, looked around a little bit and left. I had a headache after leaving your site.

I agree with Mauco about the color scheme, however your design is too crowded. Your links are ok for the most part, however, you are overdoing the ads on the page.

the first thing i saw when i arrived on your site was the ads, completely detracted from what your site is about. IMHO it looked like a warehouse for ads and made it hard to decipher what was actual website content and what wasn't.

you only need one ad banner on a page, they don't increase traffic to your site anyway, sure it can generate you money, if you can get people to stay on your site long enough to use them. But still having 2 or 3 different ad banners is overkill and will scare people away from your site, reducing proper conversion and flow through.

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http://www.sixtoed-design.com
The web design company that allows the customer to choose their design as its made.

Just a word of advice, please read Google's TOS (Terms Of Service) for their Google Adsense program.

The website seems a bit cluttered. Check out Google's Search Engine Optimization guide as well.

Users might not mind scrolling large sections of content to find what they are looking for, but a more simplified User Experience that is fluid is of more benefit in our view.

Some tweaking and using services at W3C (validator and jigsaw) would help you in the future.

Also do a trawl of the internet to see what other job websites look like, it helps push the envelope (client pending)

all the best with your design and development endeavours!