O.K. I am ready to be tarred and feathered...

page is to wide. my $0.02 lol

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. The set up is fine, but I think you need more "background".

I agree that the page is too wide, however, I am no professional either. I honestly think it looks good besides the wideness.

Put it all in a table 800 wide Gaz, otherwise great stuff

A few things...

You can increase conversion, from what I see... by a LOT.

Get the top header out (make it the title)

Make the second one the intro head
Make the long headline bigger and make it CC0000 with the red words black... put it in quotes
take out the image on the side
take out the links on the left

jsut to name a few

if you want any more help, etc. just shoot me a pm!

Not to sound mean or anything, but:

1. The website looks cheap. It looks like it took you 20 minutes to set up (actually looks like from the late 90's).
2. It looks like you didn't even care to incorporate a good picture. Most graphic designers (with the style of picture you have), would make a 'white' background. But it looks like you were too lazy to find anything that matched, so plopped in the first image you found. And actually, the image looks kind of wierd, it actually reminded me of obama, and looks like Obama is trying to kiss some kid, which is just strange.
3. It's too wide.

Those are a few of the things off the top.

Things done right:
1. Well, since it is your first attempt at a website, it's not bad.

What is the purpose of the site? What do you want to achieve with it... that's what you should figure out first and we can take it from there.

Your website looks dam good for your first attempt.
I wish my first attempt looked this good because if it did then it would of succeeded.

Keep up the good work.

You've definitely got a great foundation set - and the content is great. I think with a few aesthetic touch up's via some css would do you wonders! Good luck.

You're definitely on the right track Gary but i also think it's a tad too wide. Another thing that i notice is that there doesn't seem to be a headline that jumps out at me when i land on the page, you have one on the left at the top and then a red one in the center with several sub heads under that. I think create a bold headline that catches peoples attention and leads them into the sales letter

All in all, great job and you only need a few minutes to to make it top notch!

Way too wide - while I hate all those sites with their little narrow strip of content, still catering for users with Win95 and 800x600 monitors, the vast majority of web visitors are on 1024x768 or greater now. However your site is just too wide for that and doesn't dynamically scale, so reduce it.

I felt no interaction with the site at all, in fact I closed it before remembering I was going to review it.

The bit about loading slowly because it's such a big and popular site is more cheesy than a block of cheddar - kill it.

The site does not make it clear WHO it is aimed at - and just how many people are "searching endlessly for information concerning relationships"?

The "reporting" element made me think it was some kind of "Spy on your spouse and see what they're up to" kind of thing, but looking closer it seems to be an attempt at being an authoritive portal on relationships (and fails due to technical stuff like text overlapping the videos, the cheesy bit mentioned earlier, the width etc). No site could be popular without you already having a lot of feedback on that kind of thing, so it just makes it obvious you're lying to make up for a slow hosting account.

I still haven't clicked a link on there - your call to action is to "get started" (doing what?) by reading "top stories". What top stories? Yeah relationships but what, success stories, failure stories, fiction, case studies, erotica, what? I can't be bothered to click as I have no idea what's there but strangely I feel there won't be anything "top" about them.

"500 lovemaking tips" is the only thing that stands out as almost clickable but even that is too damn vague.

Tips for making love under X conditions, overcoming Y problem and so on could be individual articles but who has time for 500 vague tips?

There's no real call to action, no sense of having found what I was looking for or even imagining what search would find that site.

Don't adjust it, start again from scratch. Think WHO is the site for, what is their pain or problem you can solve, then introduce yourself, build some credibility and tell em what they'll be missing if they don't take the next step.

and tell em what that step is!


Hope that helps


B.

Your sign up box is, on my monitor at least, below the fold. You need to move it up so that visitors don't need to scroll to see it/reach it.

Not bad for a first attempt.

It does not look web 2.0.

You have a opt-in form on every page right?

It's time to test the response with some visitors!

400-500 of them will give you a good idea on how they will respond.

All The Best To You & Yours!!

TL

Ps. Grab the free $250 in adwords coupons and use it the learn google's site placement system on google's dime - not adwords.

See this today's forum post from a fellow warrior.

Pps. Do you have a free report to give away to people that may want to opt-in? I don't remember, but it will increase your opt-ins dramatically.

Hi Gary,

I agree with many of the above suggestions.

You might consider trying to add a more powerful headline,

How Not to Lose the Emotional Magic in Your Relationship. Obviously,
I'm not a copywriter, but the idea is to add a fear to loss.

Otherwise, great job on getting started!

Regards,
Phil

First of all let me say I think that you did a great job for your first attempt you are on the right track so congradulations.

Secondly, you need to decide what your trying to accomplish with your landing page. If you are trying to capture leads than that should be the only option either opt-in to get some info or leave. From there you can redirect your subscribers to the information that they desire.

Third each link leads to another opt-in form I would not stay long if I had to opt-in to each page to get more information. It is unclear if am I subscribing for a newsletter or a free e-book and suppose I wanted to download all of your information I would not want to subscribe to 15 different lists to browse the information.

Finally, I think that maybe you should narrow down your market. Pick a niche and provide quality information along with some sort of magnet to get subscribers instead of trying to be everything to everybody it just to distracting.

Keep up the Good Work
To your Success

First of all let me say I think that you did a great job for your first attempt you are on the right track so congradulations.

Secondly, you need to decide what your trying to accomplish with your landing page. If you are trying to capture leads than that should be the only option either opt-in to get some info or leave. From there you can redirect your subscribers to the information that they desire.

Third each link leads to another opt-in form I would not stay long if I had to opt-in to each page to get more information. It is unclear if am I subscribing for a newsletter or a free e-book and suppose I wanted to download all of your information I would not want to subscribe to 15 different lists to browse the information.

Finally, I think that maybe you should narrow down your market. Pick a niche and provide quality information along with some sort of magnet to get subscribers instead of trying to be everything to everybody it just to distracting.

Keep up the Good Work
To your Success
Anthony J. Garay

As for basic layout, it just seems too "white". I think there needs to be some contrast, perhaps a different shade for the header background, a different shade for the sidebar, etc.

It just sort of looks like a big bowl of milk. I think a little color would make a big difference.

Gary, if you are hand-tweaking each page to change the width, you are setting yourself up for maintenance headaches down the road. What tools are you using to do this?

I am not an expert ,so please take that into consideration.I was impressed that it was your first,(I hope I do as well)I just thought I was a little bland,I don't know if that's the right word ,It"s just the site didn't reach out and grab me.I'm proud of you. go get um

It lacks any content or affiliation with Dr. Paul Dobransky M.D. (doctor paul dot net), so by default the advice doled out is pure garbage.