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by **Wally4000** on Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:51 am

G'day

I think its probably rather appropriate to put a link to the Register button on the front page.

Took a while to find the forum link too xD

Wally

by **Quaid** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:46 pm

Er, there are two massive links to the registration on the home page â€“ one in the top left, and one huge banner graphic below the information on the latest issue of Retro Gamer.

Can't get clearer than that

by **Mr_Staypuft** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:36 am

Quaid wrote:Er, there are two massive links to the registration on the home page â€“ one in the top left, and one huge banner graphic below the information on the latest issue of Retro Gamer.

Can't get clearer than that

Quaid, with a greatest of respect, I must disagree.
You're looking at the RG website with "print" eyes.

Here's what you see:

And here's what MANY long term web users probably "see"...

NOTE- I do not have any "ad block" software.
I've put those boxes there to SIMULATE what I see.

I automatically ignore ads on websites. Many web users do.
It's not even conscious.
AND - I'm not anti-advertising. In fact, I write ads for a living!

In the case of the 2 registration boxes... I seriously have to search around,
and make my eyes look at every part of the page - before I see them.

So - here is my suggestion to you:

It's much less "print visible" than your current ads,
but much.. much more "web user" visible.
Because - it's where you'd expect a "register" link to be.

If you made this design change, I bet your registrations will go UP.

(Sorry about the largish attachments - if they were any smaller you couldn't read my changes.)

by **Antiriad2097** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:20 am

He's right you know. Tiny change, but a huge difference.

by **hydr0x** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:31 am

yeah, ad blindness should be considered

also, CTRL+F "register" doesn't find the two pictures

by **MikeHaggar** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:49 am

Mr_Staypuft wrote:And here's what MANY long term web users probably "see"...

Yup. That's what I see.

by **SirClive** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:16 am

Yeah, even with the screenshot and instructions I was scouring the page. Making it look like an ad is probably not the best idea.

by **markopoloman** on Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:28 am

WOW! He's right! :shock:

by **bolda** on Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:44 am

Heh, now that I think about it, most websites I visit that require a log-in have something like "New users register here, existing users log in here"... never really given it any thought until reading this thread but it does make a significant difference! :shock:

I agree that the links on the main RG page do get lost in the "ad noise".

by **Darran@Retro Gamer** on Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:20 pm

Interesting information and something I've not even considered (everything shows up for me) I'll put it forward Monday.

by **Mr_Staypuft** on Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:05 am

Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:Interesting information and something I've not even considered (everything shows up for me) I'll put it forward Monday.

Daz - regarding "everything shows up for me",
just a quick reminder that we can all "physically see" the registration "ads".

But we don't "actually see" them as we have trained ourselves
NOT to see ads on the net.

So - it's not a technical or ad-blocker thing. It's purely design.

by **mikeb** on Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:23 pm

By jiminy he's right. Never have actually 'seen' that login button, always mentally blocked it as an ad :0

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