Outlaw Amateurs - my first free site -feedback please

[papagmp]

Originally Posted by Preacher

I think you'd be better off focusing the advertising on the site to your own site and drop the other two sponsors.

I'll give this some thought - and will probably do just that. I wasn’t sure if I could/should do this or if it looked too self serving.

Originally Posted by Preacher

For a free-site on an index, I'd be especially text intensive to really try to get some search engine love.

SEO, SEO, SEO - and I know better!

Originally Posted by Preacher

Those thumbs with the text on the bottom will get you declined. Split those into 2 images lay them in a table and only link the text at the bottom. What I'd do is place the thumbs unlinked and link real text below the thumbs, personally.

I split the images - I'll work on the text - and a background behind it so it's legible. This is a great idea - especially considering the above mentioned for "text" or "content" on a root directory.

Originally Posted by Preacher

Totally off of topic, for a freesite on a root -- you sure chose an intresting and diverse set of linklists to submit to.

OK - I'm not a virgin anymore - been accepted at a few LLs and waiting on the others. - still need to wring this one totally out so the next one is as near perfect as possible.

One more question: Is it ok to run the same free site in a subdirectory with different LLs or is that a no-no?

Expect to see outlawlesbians.com in a few days..... you should have see the responses I got when I posted this subject on a blog the other day - some of those girls don't want to be outlawed.

Thanks for all the help.

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by papagmp

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One more question: Is it ok to run the same free site in a subdirectory with different LLs or is that a no-no?

Most people don't want a sub-domain, but a directory off the root is fine. Good luck with your sites.

[Useless]

I accepted it, but I'd like to see the thumbs a little clearer/crisper. Judging by the full size pics, you aren't worried about bandwidth , so for the next site I'd suggest beefing the thumbs up to the area of 5-8kb each. Their dimensions are fine, so bringing up the weight would aid in making them much more clear.

[papagmp]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'd like to see the thumbs a little clearer/crisper.

OK - I use photoshop CS2 for most of my workflow and I batch using the web photo gallery function to create web images and thumbnails - I don't need any of the html it produces but I like how it handles my images - problem is I don't see a way to change the weight (jpg compresssion) of the thumbnails - guess I'll just have to write another action to get better thumbnails. One more step......arrrg

Thanks for the feedback and listing - saw it on your site this morning.

[papagmp]

[quote=Useless Warrior;329109]II'd suggest beefing the thumbs up to the area of 5-8kb each.QUOTE]

Done...

take another look http://www.outlawamateurs.com/index.html

And I brought the image size down to 800x535 = 1335 - killed me but bandwidth will become an issue and I'll save the large images for the pay site(s).