Which looks better?

[jhmattern]

Just trying to tweak the look of www.BizAmmo.com a bit slowly but surely, and I wanted to try brightening up the menu. Nothing snazzy... just looking for a general visual preference. So which looks better to you? The white? Or the gray?

White: http://consulting.bizammo.com
Gray: http://publicrelations.bizammo.com

Thanks! :)

Jenn

[Sullmoney]

I like gray better.

[jhmattern]

lol I liked white better... glad I asked. So now I just have to hope someone breaks the "tie". ;)

Thanks!

[Sullmoney]

If you dont mind me asking, how much is your typical click worth on that site? I see a lot of financial ads on there. I know nothing about finance so I was just wondering.

[master06]

white is good for me.

[tpicompany]

i dig the grey :D

[jhmattern]

lol Darn, still tied. ;)

My clicks on that site as a whole pay really well on average (I'd say $.30-.50), but most would probably come where most of my traffic is, which is the press release-related articles, and those ads are usually pretty well targeted to PR. It's not uncommon for me to get $.80-2.00 / click on the consulting subdomain there, but far fewer clicks b/c I've been completely slacked on adding content there and driving traffic (why I'm trying to "pretty it up" a tiny bit now).

[Morishani]

I Liked the white more :)

[tekboi]

I liked the grey a little more. I think it looks less plain that way

[fsmedia]

I like the white a lot better, personally.

[UCmEbUtuJuStdOnTCaRE]

I'll go for white, It is more refreshing.

[missdanni]

Both are well done.

IMO you should go for the grey; with the white you get a "white washed" look which makes the site however full, still seem empty.

Grey also gives off a much warmer feel, more comfortable for viewing.

Also - makes it much easier to find the nav links at a glance.

Either way - good stuff :)

[knightyme]

I like both of them, however, the grey does tend to 'break it up' a bit and add 'character', for lack of a better way of putting it.

My vote: grey

[mhdoc]

Also - makes it much easier to find the nav links at a glance.


I agree the grey is better.

[jhmattern]

I just wish the gray didn't have such an "ugly" or "gloomy" feel to it. OK. Try this one. It's a compromise between the two; a gray to keep a bit of contrast, but a lighter one to get rid of the dark gloomy look:

http://freelancejobs.bizammo.com

Any better? Or still one of the originals?

Thanks everyone. :)

[missdanni]

Perfect! :)

[Theozard]

i think the white one will actually work better, specially if your trying to make it blend with adsense :)

[jhmattern]

I'm not putting any adsense in that column. :)

[forumrating]

grey is good, would consider tht only.

[Hypnotique]

I would go with gray most definitely.

[jhmattern]

Which gray? I'd added a lighter one as a sort of "compromised" option. :) Now it's:

Dark Gray (http://publicrelations.bizammo.com)
Light Gray (http://freelancejobs.bizammo.com)
White (http://consulting.bizammo.com)

I'm glad I asked before just making the total changeover to white. Thanks for all the feedback. :)

Jenn

[Ajeet]

http://freelancejobs.bizammo.com


Perfect :)

[jhmattern]

Thanks Ajeet. I certainly trust your judgement. :)

If it's not too much of a pain in the butt for everyone, I have one more question actually regarding this site:

Do you think having the red links is too much red? Should I leave the red maybe to headings, bullets, etc.? If so, what do you think would work for the links? Just black or gray? Something else entirely? Thanks. :) And sorry for not thinking of that in the original post. :)

Jenn

[jhmattern]

Well oddly enough, I went to check my adsense earnings today for this site after someone here asked what the clicks average. Only 2 clicks there today (more than likely from this thread since I haven't done anything to market the site lately), and one was like $1.10 and the other I think was around $1.54. Not bad. :)

It's not even my best site for click rates... my directory at www.freedeeplinks.com does better (most likely on the sites related to Halloween, where a lot of the traffic goes now, or the business forums page - both featured in the header). I didn't expect a directory to do well, so I'm glad. :)

But I guess business sites in general probably have good potential. :)

[timothy104]

i like the GRAY

[JEET]

I would have done the following:

Gone with the white,
Added a border to the navigation,(probably grey or the color of the line seperating the logo from the content.)
Used regular blue color for links in navigation,
Bolded the links.

May be added a tiny tiny arrow before the link.
Might have rounded the border towards the bottom.

Otherwise, I think the white is good.
Bye :)

[bigrollerdave]

I like the grey better

[pctec]

I like the dark gray...

[Giggles]

I like the white, more appealing to the eye! Personally I think the red works well also.

[Ajeet]

I am a big fan of red for links because they look good. But, on one of my sites I noticed that people are not figuring out that they are "links". I conducted usability experiments where I observed surfers at my site. Though it was only over about 30 people, I could notice that people did not recognize the links.

[jhmattern]

That's what I was worried about. I remembered having a discussion along those lines back with one of the networks. I'll toy with it if I have some time for it today, and see if I can find something that might work. :) Thanks! :)

[Theozard]

gray definitely then!

[Richie_Ni]

I would go for 'Light Gray'.

[jhmattern]

Thanks everyone. :) I think I'm going to go with the light gray option. :) I'll play with link colors and probably find some shade of blue... if it looks awful, I'll go back to red. I appreciate all the feedback. :)

Jenn

[gundumz]

the white one is very clean , I love it