Graphic design is part of the metaphor. Multiple solutions can work. But you have to use the appropriate design for the solution. Don't reinvent the wheel. Good designs are user tested.
People enter their resumes, companies list jobs.
Companies and people search for matches. Their traffic increased tenfold over the past year. They were experiencing pending process storms which killed their performance. Two high end Digital Alphas. Farms of large numbers of NT boxes are not cost effective here because of the high per CPU cost of Oracle used for web serving.