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Old 2005-01-26, 05:46 PM   #1
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How can you even tell?

There must be around 10 - 20,000 sponsor templates around! I couldn't keep a fraction of them in my (biological) memory... Plus so many people are actually making templates which look similar, either as webmasters or to sell...

Personally I find around 70% of these templates lazy and overdone!
- Lazy because everything is one graphic run thru an image slicer, and then you end up in some cases with a uniform background being sliced into individual pieces for each thumb, which slows down loading!
- Lazy and overdone because quite often you see almost standard text as a graphic, which could have been easily CSS text; CSS text makes the template more flexible (you can change the text for each gallery), se friendly, and faster to load.
- Overdone because I'm quite often wondering if people buy more from a flashy full-page graphical gallery with over-compressed videocaps, or rather from a simple gallery with semi-decent images, where they can get a good impression of what to expect inside the member section.

Personally: if a gallery is over 50 (max.65) kb in total (that's graphics and HTML, not the thumbnails) then I think it's a good one! Some of these new flashy templates have graphics of 200+kb plus large HTML tables due to the complicated image slicing...
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Old 2005-01-28, 11:45 AM   #2
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- Overdone because I'm quite often wondering if people buy more from a flashy full-page graphical gallery with over-compressed videocaps, or rather from a simple gallery with semi-decent images, where they can get a good impression of what to expect inside the member section.
I got a listing on thehun´s with the ugliest gallery I ever built (wondering why he never lists my bought ones...). This gallery converts better than most other galleries I´m running. So I decided to build more shitty designed ones myself.
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Old 2005-01-28, 01:03 PM   #3
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So I decided to build more shitty designed ones myself.
LOL... that's awesome. I really don't think most surfers give two shits about quality of the design, and I know lots of webmasters who do better with circa 1996 looking galleries. Good content = good sales.
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Old 2005-01-29, 04:21 AM   #4
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Most of the time I design my galleries myself, simple but thats okay I think....
example;

http://www.realitycum.com/cam-a-sutra01/index.html

But sometimes when I have less time a combine it, little of myself little of the sponsor...
example;

http://www.realitycum.com/bigcocksex01/index.html

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