Obviously I have content building to do, but the layout is nearly finalized. I'd love to hear any feedback you guys could give me! Main Page: http://www.stopmomstop.com/ Article Page: http://www.stopmomstop.com/assessing_the_quality_of_education.html Forum Page: http://www.stopmomstop.com/talk/ Those are the three main layouts. Green Rep to all who help me out.
Main page: Header looks great! For your adsense ad: remove the border (make it white) and then change the link to pink, there will be better blending that way Article page: Same goes with the ads on the left. The article area is find 'cause its well organized Talk page: I would move the recently table to the top of the forum and make the forum wider (there's too much blank area under the recently table)
Thanks guys! The recently table will fill down over the course of the next two weeks as I publish articles. Right now, there have only been two so it looks a little off kilter. That's great advice on the ads though - I hadn't actually considered the colors/blending just yet.
It's very important for bringing up your CTR! The goal is not to make the ads stand out so much that it's obvious that they look like ads (because people don't like clicking at ads). Making it blend into your site makes it seem like it's part of your layout so people actually read it