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Old 07-23-2014, 04:43 AM  
RazorSharpe
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
Nicking someone's design is dangerous. I recently stopped working with a client because they heard taking the big boys pre join was a good idea. Their ratio dropped every month for 6 months and I kept telling them to revert back to the one I came up with. They wouldn't despite the plummeting sales after the change. The lesson? Test and measure what works for your traffic, not other people's...
I agree that what works for one site won't always work for another. This isn't about "borrowing" a design though. I'm just curious why pre-join pages in our industry seem so standardized and why there is not really any cool stuff happening.

It all just seems very cookie cutter, albeit with different colours and images. There just isn't anything there that makes me go "Wow, ok! Now THAT'S a sexy join page" ...
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