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Steve

A Hooker's Free Porn

I'm Becoming Jaded

Before getting involved with VNWR and seeing some of the work that was being produced by people here my free sites were very bland. Small boring text links around standard banners and nothing very adventurous when it came to page layout or presentation.

The influence of a an out-of-the-box thinker like Voltar soon began to have an affect on me although I am not sure that I will ever get to the stage of using tomatoes as a background. That influence also affects others too and the guy who built the site under review is obviously one of those so affected.

You can find the site here:

And, while the background is not tomatoes it certainly seems to be effective in helping to focus the surfer's attention on the most important part of the page.

There is just one word of warning about the site from the site builder. Don't click on the bottom link unless you want to go into the fifth dimension of console purgatory.

The page is definitely designed to load fast - around 10 seconds on a standard modem connection and the choice of a banner with a small file size goes a long way towards keeping that loading time down. The background image is just 1.13kb

The banner color and the way it contrasts with the basic page background color will attract the surfer's attention too. In fact load the page and just watch the path that your eyes take down that page and note what you actually see as you follow that page.

Looking under the hood at the meta tags is also interesting. Just lately I see more and more people offering the 'good' advice that meta tags are all but useless. I certainly do not agree with that view and when it takes so little time to add useful meta tags I fail to see why so many people are ignoring them.

On this site the keyword tag is probably a little underdone and only single words have been targeted. The competition for good search engine placement for single words is always fierce so it is often better to target two and three word phrases rather than just single words.

Before we leave the index page we should spend a moment thinking about the exit link. Personally I think that it should be in a more contrasting color. It certainly doesn't have to stand out like a neon sign but it should be a little more visible.

In my opinion the way it is at the moment is a distraction for surfers. There is obviously something there but it's hard to read and inquisitive surfers are going to click on it just to see what it is. Surfers are always looking for the motherload of free porn so many will click anything that looks a bit different in the hope of finding some secret porn stash. Once they are gone you may not get them back to look at more of your advertising.

The layout of the main page is ok although I might make the size of the gallery links just a bit smaller. It does no harm to make the surfer look for them because while he is looking for them he is also looking at your advertising.

On the gallery pages the focus immediately goes to the advertising. Contrasting colors and fast loading banners make it almost impossible for the surfer to miss the advertising. Just in case he does have trouble seeing it the thumbs are designed to blend in with the background color.

The thumbs lead to big images that are just 500 on the longest side. That is the minimum requirement for most link lists so there is no need to go larger than that. Any larger and we are just pandering to the surfer's desire for freebies and that is not what a free site is about. We are not trying to entertain the surfer, we are here to try and sell him on our sponsor and that is something we should never forget.

On the final gallery page the webmaster has reserved the final link for himself. If the surfer hasn't bought by the time he gets to the bottom of the last page then we should never let him go without trying to sell him on something else. The offer of a tour through some more porn is often enough bait to get surfer interesting in looking at more advertising and that is what the webmaster has done here.

My only suggestion would be to drop the table a bit further down the page. Where it sits at the moment could well distract a surfer who was thinking of going through to our sponsor and distracting him from doing that is probably the last thing we want to do.

While the subject of the site did nothing for me - clothes pegs on nipples at 7am in the morning just don't ring my bells; the site design on the other hand was good and kept me interested.

I must be becoming jaded; I saw naked tits and pussy but found the site design more interesting. How sad is that?

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