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Originally Posted by AlphaSky
Hi Harvey, you really know your stuff. Great advice. If you have time, could you check out our tours and tell us what you think of our teaser clips?
On our first site, http://www.theappletwins.com we have one teaser trailer hooked up, and then, when they click on the 2nd one, it brings them to the join page. The first trailer is weak, simple playboy style footage. I agree with your idea of no trailers at all, because it let's the imagination run wild, but we're still 50/50 on removing it. I think sometimes people want to see "something" to help them decide. But maybe not in our case?
On our 2nd site, same set up, http://www.thejolietwins.com , the trailer teaser is a little more wild, gets better at the end, so I think this trailer is more effective. I was thinking maybe to leave that one in and just pull the Apple teaser?? The apples have a nice kiss at the end, but what do you think?
Pull 'em both and the let the consumer's mind go wild, or leave them to let the consumer know what's inside?
Thanks for your time,
Leslie |
Well, regarding Apple Twins, I think you're quite on track with that tour, although it's really ugly from a design POV (no offense) it's really catering to amateur audience. I'd just take off the big splash pics on the pictures page (those 4 vertical pictures) or make it way smaller. You'd even put the logo over the pics to save space, but that black part is the most important. Add some real text instead of images (for SEO purposes) and the amount of pics for each of those sets. Open the samples on a preview page instead of a jpg and include calls to action. Something simple like a logo, picture sample and join now link will be enough. Get the bottom row of 4 pics off, you need people to join and that's where the page ends. And finally, get rid of that "See our new pictorial" button since it's outdated and you're giving the message that you don't care enough
Video page: I don't see the trailer at all, dunno if you removed it, otherwise, I see no point in adding something that is hard to find anyway. The best element of the page (which, honestly, is quite good) is the content of that iframe... however, it's so small and with a scroll bar that once I paid close attention I realized it was there. Again, what's the point? Just remove the 2 rows of pics and include that iframe at the top or right below the black header. Just to be clear: the "added" text over the thumbs is what makes teh difference.
Join page: get rid of the top thumbs or make it smaller and with more thumbs. Everything else is perfect
about Jolie twins, more or less the same, just be sure to make the header way smaller in height and in video page I'd replace that upper area with the photos with the content of the iframe and that's it. No previews (they load really slow, by the time they finish you lost the surfer, like EscortBiz said)