Frank Lennon wrote:

> I have created a new web site www.able2date.com but few of my visitors
> add their details and most appear to just have a quick glance and
> then disapear. What can I do to improve my service?

First thing I notice is the oversized 'silhoutette' graphic. It is 63KB
and also overstretched with HTML height of an incorrect number of
pixels. It is a 230x182 pixel graphic, not 230x286. I reduced it to a
10KB .gif, too.

> I just cannot see the wood for the trees and do not know what is wrong
> especially as my service is totally free!

Perhaps dating people are already satisfied with the established
eharmony.com? Perhaps people are tired of Yet Another Dating Site?

Perhaps because everything is hidden in a stealth frameset and they
can't bookmark individual pages?

Google for:
"This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them."
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,200,000

You've not ***igned a background color, so I see my ugly default purple.
Not everyone uses white as a background.

body { background-color: #fff; }

I see you are using FrontPlague. You need to tell it to remove all the
HTML comment markers (<!-- and -->) from the CSS and from the <script>s.
And I don't know what to tell you about all the 1997 markup using HTML
for presentation, rather than CSS...

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Thanks for the advice. I will work on it over the weekend.

Frank

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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> Frank Lennon wrote:
>
>> I have created a new web site www.able2date.com but few of my visitors
>> add their details and most appear to just have a quick glance and
>> then disapear. What can I do to improve my service?
>
> First thing I notice is the oversized 'silhoutette' graphic. It is 63KB
> and also overstretched with HTML height of an incorrect number of
> pixels. It is a 230x182 pixel graphic, not 230x286. I reduced it to a
> 10KB .gif, too.
>
>> I just cannot see the wood for the trees and do not know what is wrong
>> especially as my service is totally free!
>
> Perhaps dating people are already satisfied with the established
> eharmony.com? Perhaps people are tired of Yet Another Dating Site?
>
> Perhaps because everything is hidden in a stealth frameset and they
> can't bookmark individual pages?
>
> Google for:
> "This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them."
> Results 1 - 10 of about 2,200,000
>
> You've not ***igned a background color, so I see my ugly default purple.
> Not everyone uses white as a background.
>
> body { background-color: #fff; }
>
> I see you are using FrontPlague. You need to tell it to remove all the
> HTML comment markers (<!-- and -->) from the CSS and from the <script>s.
> And I don't know what to tell you about all the 1997 markup using HTML
> for presentation, rather than CSS...
>
> --
> -bts
> -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

> Frank Lennon wrote:

>> I have created a new web site www.able2date.com but few of my visitors
>> add their details and most appear to just have a quick glance and
>> then disapear. What can I do to improve my service?

delete everything in public_html and then install this below.
http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
news:TXPth.457686$EMAIL REMOVED...
> Frank Lennon wrote:
>
>> I have created a new web site www.able2date.com but few of my visitors
>> add their details and most appear to just have a quick glance and
>> then disapear. What can I do to improve my service?
>
> First thing I notice is the oversized 'silhoutette' graphic. It is 63KB
> and also overstretched with HTML height of an incorrect number of
> pixels. It is a 230x182 pixel graphic, not 230x286. I reduced it to a
> 10KB .gif, too.
>
>> I just cannot see the wood for the trees and do not know what is wrong
>> especially as my service is totally free!
>
> Perhaps dating people are already satisfied with the established
> eharmony.com? Perhaps people are tired of Yet Another Dating Site?
>
> Perhaps because everything is hidden in a stealth frameset and they
> can't bookmark individual pages?
>
> Google for:
> "This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them."
> Results 1 - 10 of about 2,200,000
>
> You've not ***igned a background color, so I see my ugly default purple.
> Not everyone uses white as a background.
>
> body { background-color: #fff; }
>
> I see you are using FrontPlague. You need to tell it to remove all the
> HTML comment markers (<!-- and -->) from the CSS and from the <script>s.
> And I don't know what to tell you about all the 1997 markup using HTML
> for presentation, rather than CSS...
>
Just don't do it.
I reckon that aut to work.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc