Thanks for the advice guys
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Originally Posted by ez12
Why start with a banner farm? The site is to static for my taste.
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I was thinking of making it my main gallery thumb script, and what would you suggest changing to make the site less static?
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Originally Posted by barcodes
Hey there.
My suggestions would be to:
Remove the home page. It really doesn't say much other than your working to put more content in. It looks like you have a lot of content but sounds like you are new or not ready to be up. I know why you put it in there but I always see that kind of content as potentially damaging as the users have to trust the site, especially if they are clicking thumbs to go to galleries. Maybe keep two banners above, below, and maybe in between if your script allows it.
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Sounds good, I will think about how best to integrate the galleries in, the layout itself has not received many updates since I started the site itself but the scripts are integrated into the main site itself.
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Originally Posted by barcodes
I would suggest using text links or putting text links in the footer. Good for seo and if they are scrolled down, it's easy for them to get wherever they want to go.
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The text links are a great idea, and I cannot think why I never did this to start with, I will add it onto my upgrade list for when I next upload the index file.
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Originally Posted by barcodes
Maybe put some morphing rss blogs in there. Its just something extra for your viewers, they have tgp ones since that seems to be the direction of the site, and since it auto updates you don't have to worry about it much after you set it up. You don't have any content on there as is which will hurt you in the long run seo wise.
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Yeah I was thinking about how to integrate additional information into the main site itself, as blog feed would be useful, I wasn't sure whether to create model profiles with images and also a rating and comment section, but I'm not 100% sure how this would fit in. I would have to write an rss reader if I was to integrate a daily one, would be a challenge but it is something which would be useful for an external networked site.
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Originally Posted by barcodes
If you have some photoshop experience, maybe add a nice background in the mix. This is just a cosmetic suggestion but I think it would be nice. Here is a link to some sites that provide some nice free tileable backgrounds.
http://www.designshard.com/freebies/...ound-patterns/
If you have the time, you could find a nice background and tile it, then maybe even create a transparent background and lay it over the tiled one. Like two chicks surrounding your blue content box, that would be sharp. If you look at one of my sites, www.pornworship.com you can see I have a tileable background image, a tileable bar at the top, and a transparent background of a chick that overlaps them both. |
That sounds like a good idea to wrap the main content with images of girls, I'm not really a photoshop user but I can use the Gimp so I can create some photoshop like effects. I will check out the site you suggested shortly.
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Originally Posted by barcodes
Do you need to do this stuff? No, but I think if you have the time, some of this would prove to be helpful and rewarding. If you take any of my advice to heart, do the text links on the footer and maybe consider removing the explanation of adding more content.
Best of luck!
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I will redo my front page and also increase the thumbnail count in the gallery section, I just need to expand the amount of galleries shown. The integration of banners and adverts between would be useful, I could think of things to put in as well as sponsors who would fit into a gap like that, as some are not as tuned to direct galleries fresh out of the box. Creating and designing my own TGP's is something I was thinking about how to implement today, I think I might have a method of how to implement a gallery system and built it into my system.
I am looking at ways to expand the system out just it is going to take time as at the moment i have over 20k FHG's loaded into the database. I will see what I can do with the system