RazorSharpe

I did say I was open to criticism of all kinds, bad included, but damn! All's fair in love and war. Having said that, this is a pre-join page so it needed to come close to matching the rest of the site that uses those very colours. I will however run a test with that sidebar in a different colour(s) to see how that works.

I don't recall saying I was "struggling" for text, what I did saw was perhaps I missed some text that others usually use that would help conversions. I spent weeks trawling through sites looking for design inspirations as I'm fairly happy with this mockup. Is it perfect? Of course not. Could it be made better? I'm pretty sure it could; which is why I'm here asking what I may have inadvertently done right and what I've done wrong.

I'm aware that testing is the best way to prove a theory and I will be doing a lot of testing. It doesn't however hurt to ask for guidance or critiques even at the expense of someone going "yuck"

Having said that: http://erosexoticahd.com/join.html
That looks dark to me and has reds in it to boot. In fact, of the 3 pre joins pages of yours that I looked at, they all used black as the predominant colour. I'm not having a go at you or your sites, my questions are very genuine ... What is it about the black on my mockup that you don't like? Is it because it's teamed with the red sidebar? What was hard to read for you? I ask because I can sincerely not see anything that would be hard to read ... but it is possible I'm not because I've spent more time on this page than anyone else.

I appreciate you taking the time to have a look and give me your opinion TPN.

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