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Originally Posted by DamianJ
It's hard to know where to start, the mistakes are so basic.
1) Don't use images of text. Google cannot read images. Use actual text. This can be styled using Google Web fonts. www.google.com/webfonts
2) Don't send people straight to a payment page on JOIN. Use a prepayment page with sales text and different payment options, viz: recurring, non recurring, 3/6 month, 2 day trial. Look at any other site to see examples of this.
3) Don't use a default Epoch payment page - you can brand this with your own stuff. Do so. Visual disconnect like that is horrible for the user. (And make the geo thing they've started now clickable. I see paypal button, I click, nothing happens. Appalling UX.
4) Remove the 18 only and the, I assume, nicked image of the bloke with the red line through him. The top left/header is for your branding. Not some clip art.
5) Sort out the page load time, it's shocking
6) 3 or 4 sales points, not 30. No one reads them all.
7) Don't use every font you have on your PC
8) When you click to watch a trailer, let them watch the bloody trailer, don't take them to http://www.mixedracelesbos.com/vicki-anais.html that and then not even have the Login/register clickable
9) Put some calls to action on the site. I honestly had to LOOK to find a join button.
10) In short, get a professional to design you some tours. These look like you did them yourself. If you are going for the DVTimes look, cool, if you actually want people to trust that you have a legit site, make it look like one.
HTH.
Your pal
Damian |
cheers. As you can see the page is different from earlier - I do concede I've been putting off focussed work on the tour page for far too long. Your piss-take was the kick up the arse I needed.
Ok,
A few of those are for a reason eg 1. images of text that is repeated. Btw, nothing is nicked, free-use clip-art for the bloke.
2. I found better EPC with 1 option, hence no options and straight to the join form
3. I'll have to get some more info from epoch on this, I'm actually clueless on what I can have on there aside from an image, although they did tell me I can have no adult images on their hosted page, and if I embed the form on my own hosted page, the paypal option is not enabled.
4. Hmm. My thinking was more towards the 'this is a warning', and how most people hoping for something good see a warning about no under 18s, graphic content, etc as actually a good thing. Not sure it's worth 'branding' for something that is never going to have enough of a widespread appeal. Noted though.
5. Really? Loads quick here, it's on a dedicated server, no overly large files, I'm not seeing a problem at all here with load time tbh, maybe a few others will chime in and give some more input on that.
6. Yeah, It's actually 9 but agreed, I need to sort that out
and it will actually be an image once done
7. ? 1 font, different weights
8. Trailer won't be viewable, that sidebar area is a placeholder for clickable join image though
9. Noted. Though I'd call your observational skills into question if you had a job finding the register links
10. Noted.
Cheers