What's Your Opinion???

[Starting Big]

I have a job board currently in the development stage at TheBetterList.com. Functionality aside, I'm interested in hearing your opinion about how the site looks. Part of the marketing will be that it is easy to look at and use, due to not having text and advertisements all over the place, but does it look too generic? Would you take it seriously even though it doesn't look like most other job boards?

Many thanks to those who respond!

James

[Chris]

Not a fan of the logo, too complex, hard to identify. I remember reading a study years ago where people prefered logos with simple shapes.

The overall layout is nice though - but I question things like your presidential poll. You have said your goal is to make it less complex with no ads and whatnot, but you add fluff things like that that add to page clutter and aren't relevant to your niche.

[Starting Big]

Chris,

I agree. I'm going to BOLO (be on the look-out) for a new logo, and will look into moving the statistics and getting rid of everything else (poll, etc.).

Thanks!