need some advice, site functionality and ease of use... take a look at my page, there are three banners at the top... this is actually a top content of my website, so I put up banners to advertise content sitie-wide. Idea itself is good, but I think my visitors think its third party banners, so I was thinking how to make it stand out, with colored box maybe and note below, Recommended Content - any creative ideas on that?
They'd have to contain some common element in them to attach them to your website. The first thing I did as well is disregard them as ads.
Agreed - they all need to have the same look. The pictures can be different, of course, but they should all be built around the same wrapper/container.
I would recommend putting the lighter grey color behind those 3 images, with a small piece of text as a description to what it is that they are clicking on. Can be something as simple as "navigate the other pages on my blog." or something to that extent. Good luck!
I dig your site! How about centering a tiny message of some sort above images... tiny font.... like "my other stuff" or "quick links" hope that helps, Nigel