Site Owners... WHY is your whole front page an image?

[will76]

The only actual text on your entire front page is the warning disclaimer at the bottom.

I've seen very few sites where they actually have a good TEXT description of the site on the front page. Then there is the people who do a combination, all the good text that describes the site is in the design, but they have text for each scene.

I don't understand it. Can't be good for SE and it drives me nuts because I can't copy / paste a good 2 - 3 paragraph description.

[Jon Clark - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Most people are clueless mang.. Shh

Also, I see alot of image enter and exit links... And they wonder why only there index gets picked up by the search engines.. lol

[DBS.US]

The more you help others the less money you will make.

[rapmaster]

Originally Posted by will76

The only actual text on your entire front page is the warning disclaimer at the bottom.

I've seen very few sites where they actually have a good TEXT description of the site on the front page. Then there is the people who do a combination, all the good text that describes the site is in the design, but they have text for each scene.

I don't understand it. Can't be good for SE and it drives me nuts because I can't copy / paste a good 2 - 3 paragraph description.

Why do you need to cut and paste, making a review site?

[Jon Clark - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Originally Posted by DBS.US

The more you help others the less money you will make.

Don't you know Will makes more money monthly residual then most people on this board will ever make in a single year static..

[TommyM]

hehe I think its funny when people do crazy stuff like that

[Deej]

Youre all silly... graphics rule... no need for silly texts...those are for cell phones

[BucksMania]

well paysites are more about selling to the surfers
whats the point if they are high in the SERPs but can't sell?

Still i try to combine graphic and text and build free sites for the SEs

[jayeff]

Originally Posted by BucksMania

well paysites are more about selling to the surfers
whats the point if they are high in the SERPs but can't sell?

Why the implication that good design will only work for one or the other?

Graphics, text and white space are all components of a page and it is the way they are assembled, rather than their individual virtues, which impacts on a page's sales potential.

The dumbest thing I ever see is paragraphs of text, delivered as graphics. The page becomes slower, more expensive to deliver and throws away the chance to score with the SE's, for what, the sake of 5-10 minutes coding time?

That said, the issue isn't text vs graphics as such, but the wider one of understanding our own limitations. Recently for example, this board had a couple of flash-based promos on the front end and apparently no-one noticed that even someone who was slow on their mouse could click the link to get into the board before half the animation had finished loading. Perhaps they were the most convincing promos ever, but how many will never know?

We might like to imagine we are all experts at everything, but we are not and unless a webmaster is knowledgable about marketing and site usability, then he needs to hire a designer who is. Unfortunately, such designers do not generally come at the rates commonly advertised for adult designs. But if no-one has such knowledge, everyone involved ends up looking at a design as a picture (albeit one with a couple of prominent join links somewhere) and that simply isn't relevant.

Design is another area in which high demand has allowed us to make money despite ourselves, but what has been left on the table (or gone to someone else) over the past 10 years doesn't bear thinking about.

[Violetta]

I try to keep all text in text format. My new fhg's are FILLED with text

[will76]

Originally Posted by Jon Clark

Don't you know Will makes more money monthly residual then most people on this board will ever make in a single year static..

this is true but not much of an accomplishment since most of the people who post here don't make 6 figures a year.

Originally Posted by BucksMania

well paysites are more about selling to the surfers
whats the point if they are high in the SERPs but can't sell?

Still i try to combine graphic and text and build free sites for the SEs.

Do you understand what I am saying here. If you want to use text in your design, fine. I am asking why is the whole first page an image and the only text is the 2257 disclaimer at the bottom. Or, like most people the only text is a description of that scene, not of the whole website. I HIGHLY doubt if you put a couple sentences somewhere on your front page in text explaining what your site is about that it will hurt your chances of getting a surfer to signup to the site.

If your website is about Hot College girls who get drunk, go to wild parties and fuck frat boys with big dicks, then please some where on your front page put that description in text and not just in the design. If your only text is of the scenes " Cute Kelly fucking some dude at a party" that doesn't really describe the whole site, just the scene.

I know this is not a big deal to a lot of you who own / build these sites but it is a lot lof little things like this that you don't give a shit about that really adds up to affect your bottom line.

[tranza]

Originally Posted by Jon Clark

Don't you know Will makes more money monthly residual then most people on this board will ever make in a single year static..

This statement is just too funny...

[Jon Clark - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Originally Posted by tranza

This statement is just too funny...

At least what I am saying is making you laugh instead of crying out for me to be banned for a change

[Webby]

Originally Posted by will76

The only actual text on your entire front page is the warning disclaimer at the bottom.

That can get extremely boring Will - tho maybe because I'm "tainted".

If a site has actual substance and content - there is plenty to be said in text - even to the extent of "intro articles". If there is nothing in terms of content - it's easier to slam up a graphic front end and hope that sells memberships.

Also agree with jayeff re using "graphic text" - crazy stuff :-)

A good balance of graphics and well-written salient copy can be very effective.

[phatbiatch]

My whole paysite front page is nothing but text and my age warning images.

[will76]

Originally Posted by tranza

This statement is just too funny...

wouldn't say the statement is funny, unless you think it is a lie then you can laugh at yourself for thinking that way.

I think it is sad. So many people on here that think they know it all but don't make shit.