We’re happy to announce the launching of our new project Body . After a few months of working on it, developing and adding many bells and whistles, we finally came to the final stages. The site uses an extremely customized WPMU+BP backend that integrates Mechbunny’s tube script, XML and AHAH tools and a lot of custom scripting. The results are outstanding and the first test are announcing we’re facing a ground breaking milestone in adult: The first Adult Social Media community.

As yo may imagine, we designed everything on it, but we also are in charge of marketing, development, content creation and every single aspect of it. And this is just one of the many projects we’re working on our own where we take over all aspects of the business, and quite frankly, as big as it sounds, this one isn’t the bigger we’re working on!

Hope you like it, any comments are more than appreciated!

Every now and then we were asked about adding membership options to designs, especially to handle credit cards and Paypal. Therefore, since we tried several membership scripts for WordPress, here’s some insight and honest opinions on some scripts and plugins to handle memberships.

WP E-commerce

This plugin is simply amazing. And free. It does most of what other paid plugins do, only that better and for free. Now, be aware I said MOST, not EVERYTHING. The only con we could find is that it’s not very good for membership sites, but it’s aimed to goods and/or services. It will require a paid module (only $25) but really not as good as the rest of the plugin. All in all, I love my WP E-commerce!

Rating: 9/10

Quick Shop

I think it was the first decent WP membership plugin, so hats off to that. Other than that, there are way better options, and add to that documentation is close to none… just forget it.

Rating:3/10

Amember

It promises too much, but once you check what they deliver, you’ll realize you got the same any Credit Card processor would give you… for free. Documentation is OK, they install it for you (tricky, tricky), but too expensive to get nothing. Yes, I said NOTHING. If you want to use it with WordPress, you’ll have to pay even more, and the WordPress module is probably the poorest of all plugins commented in this post.

Rating: 3/10

WP-Members

Pretty cheap, reliable and extremely easy to use plugin. However, not useful for adult sites since it only uses Paypal. But if you’re going to use it for a mainstream site or you need to charge via Paypal, look no further, it really does the work, and it does it very well. One con: the programmers of this script don’t care at all about look and they get to the extreme of using 4 (four) style sheets for the registration/login page, so you may need to do some work (such as editing php and/or using a lot of !important calls in your style sheet to make sure you override WP defaults)

Rating: 7/10

Magic Members

Although it needs some work and polish, it’s my favorite. Not as easy and intuitive as WP-Members but still easy, more complete AND you can use many payment options, including Paypal and different credit cards processors. Plus, if your credit card processing company isn’t listed, you can request them to add it.

NOTE: As of August 28th, Magic Members has announced the addition of 4 new payment gateways

We wanted to send you a quick note about the new features of the Magic Member plugin.
We integrated Magic Members with new payment gateways:

CCBill
2CheckOut
PayPal Pro
Manuel Pay (Wire Transfer/eCheck)

Rating: 8.5/10

In recap, when it comes to WordPress Membership plugins, there are no many options, and if it’s to sell access to sites, I’d basically use the last 2 I mentioned until something better comes out, and if it is to sell goods, services or to install on E-shop CMS, Wp E-commerce is the answer.

The above being said, all plugins still need some work, whether on its visual aspects or back end. Besides, there’s not a single plugin useful for everything and covering adult and mainstream. It simply doesn’t exist, so it’s time to do it… any developer on to the task?

Some people asked me about it due to some chit chat between webmasters in Las Vegas. And the short answer is:

Maybe. At least as you know it.

We’re on the verge of great changes happening very soon, so be sure to check this site the next following days/weeks. For now, we’ll be finishing the already committed projects for our adult website design area, and from there we’ll see how we work things out with the new crew. However, if we feel we can’t provide our usual level of satisfaction, we’d rather close business to new clients to concentrate only on the marketing side of our company and a few mega projects we’re working on. This being said, we’ll continue accepting mainstream design projects.

We think our expertise and results have grown to a level where it would be quite unfair for our clients not to be able to provide the same or even better service, and share our expertise at the ridiculously low prices w’re charging.  At the same time it would be unfair for new clients not to provide them with the best possible service as well. Due to our geometric growth, we’re close to that point. As a matter of fact, we’re working extra hours right now and hiring more people to help us.

This is a time for well thought steps. I’m sure we’ll make the correct decision, one that may leave further clients out of the scoop, but will satisfy our existing clients. Which, as we’re at it, are the biggest companies in adult internet business.

For those of you wondering or anyone who has any doubt, you know how to contact us. We won’t let anyone down. We’re just growing too fast for what I feel we can handle without adding a bunch of highly trained personnel. For that, you’d be thankful, it will be on your own benefit

This is a skin we did for VBulletin forum script. The whole task included a portal and then this forum, but at the moment of writing this the site looks down, so we can only show a screen capture. The forum included a whole set of custom icons and badges

Another Vbulletin forum we did for Valued Affiliates. It included a main page and a forum. The forum was highly customized and uses a set of custom designed icons

This is a mockup for a site that didn’t work but I still like it a lot better than the one that was approved, so here it is. One of the pages is the main page (the one displayed on the thumb at the side) and here you can see the profile page for the same layout.

The final version that was approved and loved can be seen at http://localsex.com/ . Not a bad work at all, it’s very simple and to the point with a look like reminds a lot to Facebook and other web 2.0 social media networks. And I know it made several hundreds of thousands of dollars (probably millions at the time of writing this), so my client was right for sure! But well, I’ve an artistic mind and like the one here better

btw, this is one of 3 sites with the same look and different color palette. The other 2 I designed are Casual Encounters and Local Tryst

This is a mainstream site I did a couple years ago for mobile content delivery. Although the current live site at http://www.scorchzone.com has been changed a little, you can see the original version here (which I like it better). Anyway, a nice web 2.0 design and most important, a site that makes bling like mad!