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Originally Posted by 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. |
Ah ok, thanks for explaining further.
It's hard to 'judge' a Join page on its' own without seeing the rest of the site, or from a screenshot.
I did not know this was a pre-join page. In THAT case integrating the design with the other tour pages is essential (again, did not see the other tour pages). So having the page be black is not bad in of itself.
With my pre-Join pages you see a lot of graphics. But my pre-Joins do not capture emails etc so mine have no data to enter. So what I meant by 'easier to read' was really 'easier to input data'. So making the fields in the form white would help.
As for using red etc: on my pages they are very graphic heavy so using red as contrast is fine. But any 'call to action' buttons are orange, not red (lookup color psychology for why) and most of the text is white. Sometimes I use a differant color for variety but generally most text is white. The idea is to not put any barriers to joining with graphics, text, fonts, colors, etc. It's a tricky thing. LOL
As for as the sidebar goes I would make it a lighter gray and do away with the red alrogether. Again, I would need to look at your site.
The content itself will be the biggest aspect. The Join page (or pre-Join), when done right, will not STOP anyone from Joining. Will it HELP someone in joining? Well maybe putting some graphics on there and making it more of a 'sales page' might help but again, it depends on your site.