Site Review - March 23

[Dzinerbear]

Okay peeps, fire up your browsers and take a look at this site. The site owner has requested an evaluation. Please try to keep your comments constructive, and if you don't like the site, then take some time to explain why. What could this site owner do to make his site better, improve the surfer's experience, sell more memberships.


http://www.hotmalevideos.com/index.html


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Dzinerbear

[Marc]

I think it looks terrific. I just think it needs some more color to sex it up a bit. They gray on white is monochromatic to me and I need something to get my eye moving and get me going. Maybe a bright red or blue, imo.
Im on 800x600 res and it goes off the screen a little.

That mini video preview is a GREAT idea. Id make it larger though, i didnt see it at first.

Was this done in frontpage? Some things aren't quite right in Firefox, but most people use IE anyways.

Id just say "Nominated for best Foreign Release by GayVn Awards" and leave out the 2000. It makes the movie seem old and less exciting to me and turns me off to the site.
Never put dates into your page unless youre updating constantly.

A lot of the images look like they were stretched on the page and are blurry now, especially those bottom ones. Id resize the actual images and not stretch them through the html code.

great page overall

[Tristin]

I see your using sureflix as a back end content plug-in. So I know your limited on what you can change. I will have to agree with the poster above. Change the color to something that "grabs" the attention of the surfer. You have a great domain name. So you sould not have many problems pulling in users. The frames are bit off in firefox. Your header cuts off a bit. Did not check it in IE but you might want to try it in different browsers and adjust the frame settings to match with all of them. Overall I think it looks pretty good.

[HotMaleVideos]

I'm actually very flattered. I appreciate the feedback so far.

I have not considered Firefox users... until now. I checked it out and tweaked some of the easier to fix frames and table errors. There are a few more that will be fixed when I refresh the content, ('Hot Hunks' alignments and the contact page) but I think the more annoying ones are solved. If not let me know.

I think I went with silver/white because it was safe and I haven't personally seen too many others like it. Bold colors scare me. But I've never been afraid of experimenting. Are there particular colors that "sell" well for general sex content?

Thanks a lot!

[Dzinerbear]

I'm on my way to work, so just quickly. You'd do yourself a favour now to start checking all of your stuff in FireFox. FF is strict W3C compliant and interprets HMTL to the letter. So if your site works in FF, it'll work in IE. The reverse does not hold true oftentimes. And FireFox is gaining ground every month, and they're slated as the ones that'll take over from IE. I only fire up IE when I want to check my Google PR because IE's got the Googlebar installed.

About colour. When I see these colours I get all tingly and I want stuff to happen: http://www.gayhotmovies.com You can test me every time and the response will always be the same.

Dzinerbear

[Top Cat]

I only fire up IE when I want to check my Google PR because IE's got the Googlebar installed.
Dzinerbear

Actually Firefox has an unauthorized Google toobar avaialable as an extension. There's a whole thread there about how Google's PR may be proprietary but...there's a second off-site extension that will put it in your Firefox Google toolbar.

That means that IE sits mostly unusued on my computer...the way it should be.

Just installed Thunderbird last night...buh-bye Outlook!