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Old 2004-12-02, 11:28 AM   #13
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Hi mandi,
I'm a newbie but in case you're still working on this site here are a few things I noticed:

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

:: You should relocate the page to some other url e.g. http://www.hotcamstars.com/babecams/index.html and save the root url for building your hub page (a page with links to a bunch of sponsors).

:: Your child protection links (Cyberpatrol, etc) should go to the actual urls. My preferance is not to display them or just display their base urls but not make them actual links.

:: When you're using banners, you should always add text below, above them, or both to entice surfers into actually clicking them. Nowadays, if surfers just see a banner by itself, chances are they won't click on it.

:: Find a good non-adult sponsor for your exit link. Don't give away your traffic to Yahoo or Google, they sure don't need it.

:: Use mouseovers to simplify outgoing urls to the sponsor's base URL (but don't hide the entire url).

http://www.hotcamstars.com/main.html

:: You have a banner up top that hides the target url with a mouseover javascript. That's a major no-no

:: I can count 4 outgoing banners on this page. Although many LL's will accept 4, I prefer to keep outgoing links to 3, since many LL's prefer max 3 outgoing links on any one page.

:: This page doesn't fit in a 800x600 resolution screen. When I write free sites, I set my screen resolution to 800x600 and check my sites using both IE and Netscape to make sure there's no horizontal overflow.

http://www.hotcamstars.com/gallery1.html

:: There are 6 outgoing links on this page (15 if you count the thumbnails) :p You need to cut down to at most 4. I prefer just 2 to sponsors and 1 to my hub, or 3 to sponsors.

:: The thumbs lean to the left; they need to be centered.

:: You have target="_..." in your HTML. You need to get rid of them.

:: The thumbnails need to be linked to actual pics. e.g. <A HREF="pics/a-hot-nude-babe-01.jpg"><IMG SRC="thumbs/a-hot-nude-babe-01.jpg"></A> Not doing this will get rejected by every LL that I know of.

The simplest advice I can give you is do some surfing at LOR to get a feel for what most free sites do and don't do.

Also, I write my free sites using Textpad, or sometimes even Notepad Programs like Front page can really mess with your HTML. Not to mention it's hard to learn HTML when you're starting out, if some program is writing it all for you Writing by hand almost always guarantees that my site is clean, anyway. (For example, you have a javascript that does some kind of page resize on reload, not sure if you put it there or if some program put it there for you).

In any case, your first site looks way better than my first site :p
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