Just Finished A New Video Squeeze Page Template!

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I have been working and tweaking this new custom squeeze page template all day long, eventually I am going to probably sell it with some short and simple video tutorials on how to customize it and tweak it here and there.

What I would like to know from any of you who use video squeeze pages a whole lot, is what can I do to make this even better?

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Video Squeeze Page Template

I have tried to find some of the most popular, converting designs that are out there and being used by some of the top marketers, and design a video squeeze page without copying them exactly.

Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Whats customizable so far:

1. the header text,
2. the video size (I will show people how to make a youtube video look clean like the one on my page)
3.the opt-in text area above and below the opt-in boxes,
4.the text-message in the black footer area, (the black footer bar color is customizable also)
5.the footer copyright text

The video in the squeeze page is just a filler video I found on youtube that I thought was cool...I have nothing to do with the product in the video at all......
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  • Profile picture of the author LovelyCornSyrup
    If you use:

    * { margin:0; padding:0; }

    It will make your margins and padding on all your classes and ids set to 0px by default. That way you don't have to write in the code multiple times, and it will speed up your pages load times.

    With that in mind unless you're using multiple font families and text alignments there's no need to write it out on the individual classes like that. You can simply put it in the body like this:

    body { font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, "sans-serif"; text-align: center; }

    *note: you had 'sans-sarif' when it should be 'sans-serif'.

    I didn't test this, but if you want your forms to be even try floating them to right by assigning it to the input value like nah:

    input { float: right; }
    label { float: left; }

    This is a minor note, but browsers computer to computer render pixels differently. So when you got time look at this PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.

    Sorry, I'm a Web Designer, so that's stuff I immediately look for. I actually like your squeeze page design. The only thing that bothers me is the banner at the bottom. Since it's below the fold and the call-to-action most users wont bother scrolling. If you want to know why squeeze pages are effective I think you should look up the Pareto Principle and The Gutenberg Diagram. If you only stick to reverse-engineering other peoples works those two things will really fill in the gaps for you.

    Well, I lied, there are two things that bother me. Visually your squeeze page is almost too cohesive. The visitors eyes could really travel anywhere. If you change the color of your arrows pointing to your opt-in form to something that contrasts red, white, grey, and black it will focus the viewers eyes there.

    I hope that helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
      Originally Posted by LovelyCornSyrup View Post

      If you use:

      * { margin:0; padding:0; }

      It will make your margins and padding on all your classes and ids set to 0px by default. That way you don't have to write in the code multiple times, and it will speed up your pages load times.

      With that in mind unless you're using multiple font families and text alignments there's no need to write it out on the individual classes like that. You can simply put it in the body like this:

      body { font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, "sans-serif"; text-align: center; }

      *note: you had 'sans-sarif' when it should be 'sans-serif'.

      I didn't test this, but if you want your forms to be even try floating them to right by assigning it to the input value like nah:

      input { float: right; }
      label { float: left; }

      This is a minor note, but browsers computer to computer render pixels differently. So when you got time look at this PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.

      Sorry, I'm a Web Designer, so that's stuff I immediately look for. I actually like your squeeze page design. The only thing that bothers me is the banner at the bottom. Since it's below the fold and the call-to-action most users wont bother scrolling. If you want to know why squeeze pages are effective I think you should look up the Pareto Principle and The Gutenberg Diagram. If you only stick to reverse-engineering other peoples works those two things will really fill in the gaps for you.

      Well, I lied, there are two things that bother me. Visually your squeeze page is almost too cohesive. The visitors eyes could really travel anywhere. If you change the color of your arrows pointing to your opt-in form to something that contrasts red, white, grey, and black it will focus the viewers eyes there.

      I hope that helps!
      I would do that for the margins but, I have not got all the margins and padding set to 0. Unless I am mi-understanding you?

      I have the different classes set up, because I am going to evetually sell this as a template, and for ease of use to those without any html or css knowledge they can just copy and paste a few strips of code to change their fonts ect....

      Thanks, I did spell sans-serif wrong, I will change that....

      Please explain more about the floating of the forms, it took me while to get them to where they are now, they seem to work well as it, but if you have a simpler solution please advise, but do so if you can in detail as much as possible so I do understand.

      Yes the banner is below the fold, and really is not a banner, its just for looks, if they scroll down. Originally I wanted to have the text in while on the black, but could not figure how to float the text over the black footer image, so opted to put it under it in black on white.

      Yes, its very cohesive, thats what took so long to design, but cohesive, meaning it all flows well together and its supposed to draw the eyes from headline to opt-in, at least that is what I was working towards....

      I'm graphic designer, meaning college educated also, and maybe I'm wrong? Since I have been looking at the screen all day, but my eyes immediatly see the headline, and then flow to the opt in area...

      I thought about changing some colors in that area but nothing looked right, the only thing that I think may work is an orange color of somekind that is soft, I will play with it some more later...
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      • Profile picture of the author anne1
        It's loud and come across very "sales-y" which can be off-putting. But simple, small tweaks will tun it around:

        ~ use one arrow; two is overkill / keep the top-straight arrow, lose the bottom -curvy arrow

        ~ use one call to action versus two / keep the "Submit Now" button but change to "Submit"

        Hope this helps!
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        • Profile picture of the author CarloD.
          you should clean up the code,

          67 errors 11 warnings...should be easy to clean, also your comments you are using <!--- ---> they should be <!-- -->, those are errors that don't need to be there.
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          • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
            Originally Posted by CarloD. View Post

            you should clean up the code,

            67 errors 11 warnings...should be easy to clean, also your comments you are using <!--- ---> they should be <!-- -->, those are errors that don't need to be there.
            Yep most are from the <!--- ---> and some are from the youtube video, no control on that one.

            The the footer, header, ect alt tags, which are not really needed, but I guess to please w3c I could say header, footer, ect.... lol!

            I will clean it up as much as possible, thanks Carlo....
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          • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
            Originally Posted by CarloD. View Post

            you should clean up the code,

            67 errors 11 warnings...should be easy to clean, also your comments you are using <!--- ---> they should be <!-- -->, those are errors that don't need to be there.
            Got most of it fixed, all but 3 warnings, the 40 WC3 validation errors are all related to the youtube video embed code, which I have nothing to do with....

            So, it passed with flying colors..................
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        • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
          Originally Posted by anne1 View Post

          It's loud and come across very "sales-y" which can be off-putting. But simple, small tweaks will tun it around:

          ~ use one arrow; two is overkill / keep the top-straight arrow, lose the bottom -curvy arrow

          ~ use one call to action versus two / keep the "Submit Now" button but change to "Submit"

          Hope this helps!
          Took your advice and changed the second arrow, and then added a different submit buttom, and made it an orange color, which is appealing and really the only color orther than a gray that will work with this from what I have seen so far....
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