What would make my site better?

[hotbodybattles]

ecchi,

Thanks a lot! Great advice and ideas... But your first comment seems to me like you didn't notice that on the right hand side after every battle, I post the winning percentages of each of the pictures you just battled, as well as whether your vote was in accordance with the winning picture based on win %.

Registered members (free) can get their votes recorded as they go along, and if they do well enough, get on the leaderboards on the bottom of the page. These are all ways i've tried to increase involvement in the page.

I was thinking about the championship idea... 10 girls a day... etc.. etc.. but made a decision that only doing 10 girls a day would bring people to my site for 1 minute and then they'd be done and not come again... There's a site out there that does much the same thing I do, but he has 1 battle a day. I was so bored with the site the first time i voted and found out there was nothing else to vote on, that i never went back.

Problem with making the thumbnails the same height that I can tell is that if i do that, and the pic is a wide picture vs. a tall picture, one pic is going to be huge and the other will be small. Know what i mean?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by hotbodybattles

you didn't notice that on the right hand side after every battle, I post the winning percentages of each of the pictures you just battled......

Correct, I didn't. And since I was there to look over your site I am more likely to have seen it than the casual surfer. In other word: It is too low, bring it up higher, to the same level as the new "vote for me" pictures, so that they will see it. Personally I'd put it between the "We're Going Streaking: Login to keep track of your highest streak" message and the first photo. But if the photos are not too wide then I suppose the right hand side of the photos will do.

Originally Posted by hotbodybattles

Registered members (free) can get their votes recorded as they go along....

You need to make these things clearer. My thoughts when looking at the site was "Why the fuck would I bother registering?" If you want people to sign up, make the advantages of signing up clearer, and -more importantly- make them sound attractive so that the surfer will want to sign up.

Originally Posted by hotbodybattles

made a decision that only doing 10 girls a day would bring people to my site for 1 minute and then they'd be done and not come again... There's a site out there that does much the same thing I do, but he has 1 battle a day. I was so bored with the site the first time i voted and found out there was nothing else to vote on, that i never went back.

I see your point, but at the moment surfers will be doing the same to you, they will be thinking "Huh, there is nothing to do but click on pointless photos, I'll not bother going back there." There are actually lots of "vote for me" sites, you have to make your one more attractive than the rest, and for that you need a "gimmick" and you need to make people love your site and come back. Just clicking on anonymous photos won't do it.

Originally Posted by hotbodybattles

Problem with making the thumbnails the same height that I can tell is that if i do that, and the pic is a wide picture vs. a tall picture, one pic is going to be huge and the other will be small. Know what i mean?

Yes, but trim the wider ones. It is more important that they are the same height than the same width, but you don't want the landscape ones to be a lot wider than the portrait ones, so trim off the sides if you can, and don't use the photos if you can't.

One final note of encouragement: One of the many sites that are similar to yours was started by a coder called Mark Zuckerberg, who has just made millions selling shares in his other company - Facebook. So get this right, and the experience and knowledge you gain could take you on to even greater things!