Please Review layout for my website

[Ixix]

Please review the layout for FabulousWorkouts.com. I thought the black/grey would give the site a classy style....also, i wanted to experiment to see what would happen if the only colored links are the adsense.

anyway, your thoughts are greatly appreciated!

 

[Mike]

Maybe it's because i'm not a woman or because i'm hanging on some piece of workout machinery every day,...you've lost me within the first 3 sentences on your site. Not because the content is bad, but it's not entertaining. Fitness, sweating, the prospect of spending hours in an environment to shape and trim yourself is daunting enough, if i can't find/see any entertainment in it, i'm not attracted. This is of course purely personal.
While the charcoal isn't bad, it doesn't do the trick alone. I'd like to see at least a few visuals. Starting in the logo, just text alone is not enough, get some "action" in there. Bring pictures, video content anything that loosens the site up and brings education through entertainment value to it.

I'll be checking back

IB

 

[Daniel]

I'd say get some content down, videos from YouTube, interesting articles found from Digg, pictures, anything like that. Play around with Sticky and Announcement WordPress plugins, have a post stay at the top that really makes me want to read on. Grab me by the scruff of the end with interesting content and don't let me go.

I'd also brighten up the "Read the rest of this entry »" - When I saw the site, I read it without my eyes even telling my brain they were there. Until I looked through it more detailedly for this review, I thought, well that was short, and I wouldn't come back unless I knew there was more stuff underneath, so yeah, make those links more obvious.

Finally, change the Copyright 2006 to 2007.

Just my personal opinion, sorry if I offended you, I hope I didn't.

Dan

 

[DylanButler]

I would like to see a site like this brightened up a bit.

Designs I like in this industry:
For women: http://www.lifetimetv.com/
For workouts:
http://efisportsmedicine.com
http://www.lifetimefitness.com/