Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

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.