my first blog: comments, criticisms?

[archer]

Chosen Men (http://www.chosenmen.com)

It's my first stab at a blog.

what y'all think?

Comments, criticisms? i'm a big boy... so go wild! whistle

[Gaystoryman]

Chosen Men (http://www.chosenmen.com)

It's my first stab at a blog.

what y'all think?

Comments, criticisms? i'm a big boy... so go wild! whistle

How Big ? 666

[Gaystoryman]

Chosen Men (http://www.chosenmen.com)

It's my first stab at a blog.

what y'all think?

Comments, criticisms? i'm a big boy... so go wild! whistle

Seriously now, I found the design nice, but I didn't care for the large amount of pictures before finding anything else... I mean one picture, maybe a title or so, then the text with a few more pics thrown in?

I suppose it could simply be one's taste, but while the pics are nice, too much scrolling for a link to join, even though the pics are linked to the site entrance.

I think it buries a lot of the later stuff too, which frankly I didn't see until I took a third look, whether that is simply me being a webmaster & not a surfer, darned if I know

Posts, in my opinion, should be varied in length, and the long one's split really, least in these kind of blogs. But again, my opinion only. Too lengthy posts, even if pics, tend to make the 'reader' skim, unless there is that one single image that grabs em, but if they don't think there is more coming, well... they go away.

[archer]

i hear ya.

sometimes less is more.

it won't be just a porn selling site :)
i'll be adding whatever m'man' related' stuff that i find lying around :)

[pocoloco]

Pics are not loading for me at all ?

[Gaystoryman]

Pics are not loading for me at all ?

I just waited, they eventually loaded for me, but i think that could be simply way too many at once.

Archer, are they reduced in size? I mean kb size not appearance size, that could effect the load time too

[Chubbs]

Damn thats a lot of pics!

Like GMS says, you should prolly reduce the # of pics per post.

Just my 2 cents.

--Chubbs

[basschick]

on the good side, it's clean, it's neat, it's easy to find stuff. the pics are big enough and good quality.
but i also feel you have too many pics. the idea here isn't to get them off - it's to sell them memberships *lol* besides, all those pics make your page load slowly and scroll wayyyyy too long.

i also think that if you're using text to sell and also to bring your site together, it would be a good idea to let us know what about each model makes him "the best of the best". for the most part, i wasn't seeing it.

i didn't care for all that empty white space on the left and right of the page after the first third.

[Hammerhead]

I really like your blog.

But I agree with the other comments about the number of pics in each post. Its not so much the loading time for me, its more that there seems to be too much repetition in the chosen photos. E.g. in the SeanCody we see the same shot of a guy getting fucked in three only slightly different angles.

[gaydemon]

I really like it. I specially like the Green version / skin.

I dont know about the pictures though, i personally quite like it when there is several from each set.

But if we are talking about what sells best I think maybe a less is more.

[marcjacob]

On the other hand, they would see tons more if they went to a freesite. I like it, I normally do just one or two pics per post. I personally would cut down some of the long scrolling pics. Nice blog though :)

[archer]

jeez, i was alll prepared to log on here and post about how mean and nasty all your comments were and that i was going to go drown my sorrows ... maybe with a cup of tea with lots of sugar and if i'm lucky some cream. lol

unfortunately i agree with you all :)

back to the drawing board

[archer]

ok... i cut back on the number of pics.. any better?

what am i doing wrong here?

http://chosenmen.com/category/action/

i have a post in that category but page/category is 404

[Gaystoryman]

ok... i cut back on the number of pics.. any better?

what am i doing wrong here?

http://chosenmen.com/category/action/

i have a post in that category but page/category is 404

check your 'permalink' structure under options > permalinks to see how you have it set, or if you changed it. Also if you have added the right htaccess code.

[archer]

:bang: talk about blond moments!

tnx gaystoryman.

i owe u one blow job! :)

[Gaystoryman]

:bang: talk about blond moments!

tnx gaystoryman.

i owe u one blow job! :)

sssh, don't tell the wife, or I'll be drawn & quartered lol