We got a request for a very amateurish site, yet trying to balance some elegance in it, and make a strong reference to personal messages. We also had to code and implement the tour and members area on Carma. The result is this: a web site that resembles IM clients, icons, lots of color and a happy mood to contextualize the content.

Nothing to call momma home, but hey, our amateur looking site looks 10x better than many high end designs from other designers!

This is the second version of this site, and although it’s mainstream, it really belongs to this portfolio. Why you may ask? Well, because despite its great design, it’s the most advance piece of code we ever wrote. We created an amazing, complex (yet extremely easy to use) CMS hybrid interlacing WordPress with some high level custom coding and basic AI. It would take a lot of time and space to describe everything we’ve added, and we’ll do it at a later time as part of a HUGE announcement.

Just so you drool, here’s a short brief: Upload a folder with the name you want for the post which includes the desired video. Done. Our script will create 3 different video versions, automatically create a post, assign to a category, display the correct video based on device, interlink with pre-installed credit card processing, define content dripping based on subscription time and type of membership, create rotating thumbnails ………… ufff! Too much to tell. But the beauty of this is the following: the whole process took 1 (one) click. The video conversion to 3 different extension x 2 sizes (web and iPod) takes around 3 minutes. I dare you to find something faster, easier and smarter than this!

Tube layout and coding for GayBeef Tube. The thumbnail sample is an slightly different version I liked better, so for the same price you have 2 previews, the one here and the live one, hah!

We made a batch of galleries for Private School Jewel and they came up very nice, check them out by yourself! We also fixed all the XHTML and Flash code, CSS and added some semantic SEO for Jewel’s site, but since we didn’t design, well, no preview, we can’t take credit for other people’s work

This is a really high end design for Miss Bella Bellini with a custom CMS that helps to handle several of the design aspects and eye candy. Yeah baby, beauty by programming! On top of that, the treat was to create a CMS that can do everything as easy and fast as possible. Well, we kinda made it: upload content, write some text, PUBLISH. Yes, everything else is automated in the background, so adding each set may take 30 seconds to 1 minute. Of course, this custom CMS has features no other CMS has, therefore it’s easier to achieve this kind of behavior. Thus, this site is not a “dynamic” layout: it goes BEYOND dynamic

By the way, there’s some integration with 3rd party scripts to handle certain areas or features, as requested by the client. And last but not least, the real, real, REAL important thing is the amazing content I was provided to work with, Bella Bellini is the queen of fetish and here she shows why!

Anyway, I hope you like it, I’m really proud of it, and even though I know that the best part of it is the coding, I always have a weak spot for design. And the design for this site is amazing!

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?