There's a lot of bitching and moaning in the results thread and I didn't want this on page three. I know at least two of us (Dave and I) put a lot of thought into this judging, and I'm sure the rest of the judges did also. I spent 2 hours digging thru the sites in which case... my 15 hour day was extended to 17.
I was actually one of the first designers hired by Lensman back in '99, he's the one that showed me how to make sites that sell. I didn't judge these sites according to who had the hot shit Photoshop skills, but rather who could build a site that sells.
I took the time to take these notes because I think they contain usefull feedback to help you guys in your careers.
Two general dislikes... why submit a tour that's not completed? 3/4 of the sites didn't even have fucking complete join pages (the most important page, IMHO). Before you start pointing the finger analyze what you could have done wrong. If you're designing a template type site (cookie cutter), design it for 800X600 resolution without having the tour button below the fold of the page... you're just screwing yourself and your client by having it below the fold.
Lensman's site won because it's built from the ground up to sell, Lensman and the Adult.com crew definetly have their shit together.
If some of you designers want to read the notes below I hope you find my feed back useful:
A - Zexy: Free tour button is below the fold of the page at 800X600 (very bad). Tight design with hot porn star chicks. Good color usage. Nice use of mouse over animation on videos page. No price on the join page. Verbiage needs work. Not enough join graphics through out. I'd prefer a little harder sell.
B - Hot XXX Blondes: Killer layout. Overused content. The hip hop font is hard to read (it's readable but who's going to take the time when it's easier to look at the pictures). The small text is hard to ready in the middle of each page (it's readable but who's going to take the time when it's easier to look at the pictures). Flashing Join Now button is good ( I like the hard sell). Left chick on tour3 is over sharpened. Not enough links to the join page. No price on the join page. "100 PERCENT SAFE" text should be high lighted on the join page.
C - Schoolgirl Angels: Color selection for index fonts doesn't highlight text enough. Needs enough nudity on the index page page to grab the surfers attention. Needs animation on the join page (At least the free tour link). The whole tour needs more nudity. Schoolgirls3.html is the best page, nice big fonts... still no animation. Incomplete join page... WTF. You would have placed much better if you took the time to create animations and finish the join page.
D - Black Butter: Really phat design... would have made the big text in the middle right a different color to set it off from the background. The chick on page two isn't black
. Damn Amp... the free tour button is below the fold of the page at 800X600 
. Nice use of animation. Nice use of suggestive text. Pretty dope site IMHO, a few minor tweaks and it'll be even more of a winner.
E - X Toon: Another phat design. The tit animation kicks ass (and will get the surfers attention). Great artwork and animations. It says Join Toon X and 4 sites free" but then it doesn't say anywhere what the other sites are, associate a value with what they are getting free. Join page looks good.... would be better if you added info on the other free sites they get too.
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I was actually one of the first designers hired by Lensman back in '99, he's the one that showed me how to make sites that sell. I didn't judge these sites according to who had the hot shit Photoshop skills, but rather who could build a site that sells.
I took the time to take these notes because I think they contain usefull feedback to help you guys in your careers.
Two general dislikes... why submit a tour that's not completed? 3/4 of the sites didn't even have fucking complete join pages (the most important page, IMHO). Before you start pointing the finger analyze what you could have done wrong. If you're designing a template type site (cookie cutter), design it for 800X600 resolution without having the tour button below the fold of the page... you're just screwing yourself and your client by having it below the fold.
Lensman's site won because it's built from the ground up to sell, Lensman and the Adult.com crew definetly have their shit together.
If some of you designers want to read the notes below I hope you find my feed back useful:
A - Zexy: Free tour button is below the fold of the page at 800X600 (very bad). Tight design with hot porn star chicks. Good color usage. Nice use of mouse over animation on videos page. No price on the join page. Verbiage needs work. Not enough join graphics through out. I'd prefer a little harder sell.
B - Hot XXX Blondes: Killer layout. Overused content. The hip hop font is hard to read (it's readable but who's going to take the time when it's easier to look at the pictures). The small text is hard to ready in the middle of each page (it's readable but who's going to take the time when it's easier to look at the pictures). Flashing Join Now button is good ( I like the hard sell). Left chick on tour3 is over sharpened. Not enough links to the join page. No price on the join page. "100 PERCENT SAFE" text should be high lighted on the join page.
C - Schoolgirl Angels: Color selection for index fonts doesn't highlight text enough. Needs enough nudity on the index page page to grab the surfers attention. Needs animation on the join page (At least the free tour link). The whole tour needs more nudity. Schoolgirls3.html is the best page, nice big fonts... still no animation. Incomplete join page... WTF. You would have placed much better if you took the time to create animations and finish the join page.
D - Black Butter: Really phat design... would have made the big text in the middle right a different color to set it off from the background. The chick on page two isn't black
. Damn Amp... the free tour button is below the fold of the page at 800X600 . Nice use of animation. Nice use of suggestive text. Pretty dope site IMHO, a few minor tweaks and it'll be even more of a winner.E - X Toon: Another phat design. The tit animation kicks ass (and will get the surfers attention). Great artwork and animations. It says Join Toon X and 4 sites free" but then it doesn't say anywhere what the other sites are, associate a value with what they are getting free. Join page looks good.... would be better if you added info on the other free sites they get too.
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