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Dev Depot: Covering All Your Css Bases With Base
Adult website developers are used to taking shortcuts towards bringing sites to market and this means that any advantage in development time or site quality will pay dividends. According to its publisher, Base (matthewhartman.github.com/base/) is a super simple, responsive design framework intended to work across mobile devices, tablets and desktop computers. Built for all devices big and small, Base has your CSS needs covered.
Dev Depot: Enigma64 is Bringing Base64 To Photoshop Image Processing
For busy adult website designers and developers, every little bit counts: every little bit of quality, every little bit of performance and every little bit of time spent on a project.
Dev Depot: Boosting Coding Productivity with Brackets.io
Promoted as extensible, focused, open and innovative, Brackets (www.brackets.io) is a unique new open source code editor for web design and development that is free to use, due to sponsorship by Adobe — and “built with the web for the web,” using technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript — in fact, one could say that the Brackets.io website was built by itself, as it is developed and maintained using this tool.
Aussie Invasion — Tate Ryder Eyes U.S. Superstardom
Since moving to the United States last year, Australia’s Tate Ryder has been like a kid in a candy store. But he knew it was his destiny ever since he was a child — and the final nudge came after he put in some work for BentleyRace.com, a successful company down under.
Designing for Today’s High-Res Displays
For many casual adult website designers, addressing the needs of tablet and mobile device users involves adopting a fluid or responsive layout to accommodate differences in screen size — but getting a design to fit a specific display is only part of the battle — especially when dealing with today’s high resolution displays.
Will Scratch-and-Sniff Come to the Web?
It was an interesting idea that caused quite a stir, but it was also an April fool’s joke, when Google launched its “Nose” campaign (www.google.com/landing/nose/), calling it “the new scentsation in search.”
How ‘Porn Mode’ Browsers Impact Adult Affiliates
As many adult affiliates decry declining conversion ratios and contemplate causes such as perceived fraud by sponsors, billing company instability, piracy and tube sites, “cookie stuffing” and various other reasons, a further factor needs to be considered — enhanced “porn mode” features in modern web browsers that protect privacy and ease the minds of online consumers by boosting safety and security — but at a cost to affiliates in terms of lost sales commissions.
XBIZ Executive Awards Pre-Nomination Period Now Open
The pre-nomination period for the first-ever XBIZ Executive Awards is now open to members of XBIZ.net. Until July 31, XBIZ will accept nominations in a number of online industry executive career categories through the official XBIZ.net nomination submission form.
Mainstream vs. Adult Dating
As the internet continues to mature and an increasingly large percentage of digital consumers become more savvy to the methods available for navigating the net, the line between mainstream and adult marketing is quickly headed toward extinction. Virtually every adult webmaster has at least dabbled a toe in mainstream waters by this point and some large publicly traded mainstream companies in several sectors of the economy now either have their own adult entertainment properties or strong relationships with adult content providers. In the arena of online dating this distinction is already being tested as consumers often face parallel offers from mainstream and adult versions of similar online communities. To help fine-tune the marketing strategies webmasters use, XBIZ sat down with several leading brands of mainstream and adult dating to discuss marketing tactics that work for adult, mainstream or both.
Building Your Own Dating Site
Whether it’s the lure of a life-long relationship or the promise of a fast fling, online dating can be casual, serious or anywhere in between — with options for gay, straight, transgendered and other participants — and segmentation that goes far beyond sexual preferences to include differentiators such as golf fans or vegetarians, the disabled, HIV-positive people and more — with any and every identifiable group up for grabs. They say that there is someone for everyone, and online dating sites are where they’re often found; with players profiting by building and promoting these interpersonal connection services.
XBIZ TV: Manuel Ferrara Discusses Porn Career
XBIZ TV is pleased to announce an exclusive new video interview with performer/director Manuel Ferrara.
Gearing Up: Professional Domination Comes With a Price
Whenever one undertakes a new business venture, it is important to conduct a serious cost/benefit analysis and try to determine what the overhead will be compared to the potential profits. And that includes professional domination, which can be a very profitable part of the adult entertainment industry but can also have a high overhead —especially if a dominatrix takes pride in operating a well-equipped dungeon that appeals to a wide range of kinky tastes.
User Engagement and Dating Sites
User Engagement is a term that gets used a lot to describe interactivity and ‘traffic hooks’ intentionally put in place by all kinds of digital properties in their effort to increase their audience online. Nowhere is user engagement more important than on community driven websites focused on fostering interaction among members, and in the case of dating sites it may well be the single most important determining factor in the success or failure of any site marketing campaign. With so many webmasters shifting their focus toward the dating segment of the market from other aspects of adult entertainment, XBIZ World reached out to several of the most successful companies in the space for their insights on how these factors will continue to evolve.
Connection Catalyst
When you’re trying to get the word out about your brand, there are a lot of different ways you can do that. Most companies focus on advertising, affiliate programs, and social networking, but there’s an opportunity you might be missing. Building relationships with sex educators and bloggers is one of the best ways to add value to your brand and get your products into the hands of new customers. CatalystCon is a great place to do that.
The Adult Dating Spaces
In the digital era, technology is evolving more rapidly than ever—and as technology evolves, so does online dating. The heterosexual dating market continues to evolve technologically in 2013, and while webmasters have an abundance of technology at their disposal, they are also facing a straight dating market that is much more competitive than it was in the past.
ATVOD's CEO to Discuss Porn Regs, Enforcement at XBIZ EU
XBIZ is pleased to announce that Pete Johnson, the CEO of U.K. regulatory agency ATVOD, will discuss new rules and enforcement targeting adult entertainment companies at XBIZ EU.
Hedonism’s Helm
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of the word “hedonism” is “the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life; a way of life based on, or suggesting the principles of hedonism,” but many people know of it as the all-inclusive, all-adult resort in Negril, Jamaica, where you can be a hedonist to your heart’s content.
Focus on Fantasy
The entertainment industry, adult or otherwise, is built upon a world of make believe, where what’s known as “the suspension of disbelief” brings audiences out of reality and into the realm of fantasy.
Exec Seat: Joanne Cachapero, FSC’s Utility Player
While Joanne Cachapero’s business card states that she is the Free Speech Coalition’s membership director, as one of the FSC’s three full-time staff members, Cachapero is called upon to wear many hats: membership director, marketer, publicist, trade show representative, blogger, producer, and spokesperson, among many others. Cachapero, who was an adult industry journalist for XBIZ before joining the FSC staff in 2008, essentially functions as a de facto communications director for the FSC. She kindly took time from her busy schedule to answer a few questions from XBIZ about the FSC and the state of the adult industry.
XBIZ Executive Awards Nomination Period Announced
XBIZ is pleased to announce the nomination period for the first-ever XBIZ Executive Awards is slated for July 1-31. XBIZ will accept nominations in a number of online industry executive career categories through the official nomination submission form on XBIZ.net.