I am developing a simple mainly static website using WordPress (because maybe in the future I will add some dynamic content) for a company.

The new site have to follow the structure of the old site that requires the presence of a vertical main menu in the left column that contains the link to all the statics pages in the site. This is the old site structure: http://www.saranistri.com/

Now I have installed a new WordPress test site (this is only a test site): http://onofri.org/example/

As you can see in the left columns I have put two main menu vetical widgets that implements a possible choise for the maun menù (the top menù upon the header must be eliminated in the final implementation)

I want to know some opinions about:

1) Which of the two version is better? Do you have some additional ideas about the CSS style of this vertical menu?

2) What could I do to give a more professional look to this site? (I know that I have to insert a logo into the header)

Tnx

Andrea