Here are a few additional ideas to take a look at. From practical experience I can say the simple adjacent pads with a straight line gap can be a challenge to bridge across without globbing on huge amounts of solder.

This first one is the receiver board for a 2-channel RF remote controller that I've purchased from eBay. The jumpers are along the left side of the picture with options to connect each center pad to the left or right rows. These are really rather hard to solder and when I did them I ended up soldering across a piece of 30awg wire and then cutting it off the longer piece with an Xacto knife.



The next picture shows some option jumpers from an electrical appliance. Very hard to solder bridge across. These actually look like they should be used with zero ohm surface mount components.



Yet another one that shows an example of nearby square pads. My take is that these are hard to solder whilst leaving a very neat result.



Lastly here is a picture of some practical solder jumper pads on a test PC board. All of these should be easy to solder (the octagon one will be hardest). I especially like the round one.



Michael Karas