I'm helping a friend design/develop a new site, and want to put on a "coming soon" page, with an ability for the user to leave an email address or connect to facebook. Has anybody done any tests here? what to put in? what to leave out?
Some examples you might find useful:<p><a href="http://blog.templatemonster.com/2010/06/11/55-coming-soon-pages/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.templatemonster.com/2010/06/11/55-coming-soon-pa...</a><p><a href="http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/05/14/design-a-successful-coming-soon-page/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/05/14/design-a-successful-co...</a>
Hmm, how do I say this without sounding shameless? I just launched Capturely (<a href="http://www.capturely.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.capturely.com</a>) to help people, especially web designers, make Coming Soon pages. It takes care of all the backend stuff for you. I'll stop there, though, before this starts to sound like an ad.<p>From all the Coming Soon pages that I've looked at (quite a few, lately), they all have the headline, short description and an email form. It's far from real data, but hey, that's how pretty much everyone else does it. I'd be curious to run some real tests though, which, hopefully, Capturely will let me do.
<a href="http://soontyphoon.com" rel="nofollow">http://soontyphoon.com</a> is coming soon. On it I collect an email address, and give the opportunity to tweet about it.<p>But honestly, it's more important to get some text up than to collect info. You want to get google cranking, and unless you have some way of driving <i>lots</i> of traffic, you won't get many to join your mailing list. ymmv
I'm using this on my latest project. You can't beat the price :)<p><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/its-coming/111152" rel="nofollow">http://themeforest.net/item/its-coming/111152</a>
You should definitely check out this recent thread:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878559" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878559</a>
I'm interested to hear this too. On the one hand, I went with a minimal 'give me your email' address form that I could make as attractive as possible without putting too much effort into it -- on the other hand, now that it's out there, I feel like I should have my value prop, an intro, a _reason_ to leave your email address.<p>It's very difficult to leave it as a static page when I know that it can be better, but I'm fighting the urge to keep tweaking the prelaunch page and instead, keep working on product. I do have a deadline to meet, after all.<p>Here's what I went with: <a href="http://plumrss.com/" rel="nofollow">http://plumrss.com/</a>