Posts Tagged ‘templates’

SkaDate Dating Software: How to choose a best template for your dating site?

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Today’s post is for those who work on developing their own dating site, powered by SkaDate Dating Software, and those who have faced the problem of choosing the right template.

Contemporary generation of people lives in a highly visual world; and of the five senses, researchers have found that the visual sense is dominant. Some scientists even theorize that as much as 80 percent of the information we receive comes through sight. Sound contributes another 14 percent, while the remaining senses provide only 6 percent of our information. So, be serious and thorough when making a decision regarding visual appearance of your dating website as long as design is a thing that really matters.

In the Internet, as well as in the real life, the first impression plays a crucial role – you have only few seconds to grab users attention and make them return to your site. The more attractive the home page is, the longer users stay. In order to make your site unique and professionally looking, SkaDate Dating Software designers have developed series of fascinating professional Premium SkaDate Dating and Social Networking Site Templates. You are welcome to take a look at them and pick the most appropriate one for your website.

You should also keep in mind that even though all these design themes are absolutely gorgeous, choosing the right one depends on the target audience of your dating niche. Remember, that not only design, but also color has a significant impact on human mind.

Let say, Meeting Science template, fulfilled in a quiet white-blue gamma, is designed mostly for social networking. Passion and Ruby Red themes are rather adult ones – artistic eroticism of the models is emphasized by black and red colors, which symbolize love and passion. Exclusive Сlub perfectly suits millionaire, businessmen and sugar-daddy niches: blue color is usually associated with stability and security. Dark Shine is a perfect choice for traditional dating site.

Note that a good template should not be complicated or graphically overloaded – one catching picture is enough; and all the main links should be put in a prominent place. If users are unable to find the most important dating features easily, they will leave your site. When testing your site, try to put yourself into your clients shoes: does everything looks clear for you and is design attractive enough? Don’t forget to ask your friends for advice as well.

When you feel that your site is done and ready to be resented to the public, then it’s time to move to the next steps. The best way to be successful in dating business is to carefully research this sphere, and you can start right here – in SkaDate Dating Software blog, which is a perfect source of information related to dating industry.

SkaDate Dating Software Launches Premium Templates

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Dear friends,

SkaDate Dating Software is really proud to present you the first batch in what we hope to become a regular series of Premium SkaDate Dating and Social Networking Site Templates.

Over the last eight years we’ve witnessed the enormous growth of SkaDate customer base and were happy to see the amazing creativity of dating site owners customizing free template designs available with each purchase.

These slight or major changes (on display in our Portfolio Section) have one common goal – to make each dating site stand out and look unique. Unfortunately, not everyone has the necessary resources to spend thousands of dollars creating new designs. With this understanding in mind we decided to come up with an accessible solution to this issue.

SkaDate Premium Templates were created by our in-house professional designers, who base their work on extensive online dating market research and feedback regularly left by SkaDate customers. Everything, from color palettes to images and smallest details conform to the current trends in the world of online dating.

The accessible price-tag of just $99 per template ensures the growing chance of your website staying unique and standing out among others. There is, however, an option of a complete exclusivity purchase, which will make the selected template no longer available for others.

To check out the brand new Premium Templates in all their shining glory, visit our Templates Section, or purchase them right away from your Customer Area. Otherwise, place an order for a new copy of SkaDate dating script, or ask our pre-sales operators any additional questions.

New Version of SkaDate Dating Software is Here!

Monday, March 18th, 2013

SkaDate MasterDear friends,

We are very happy to share with you the excellent news about the release of a brand new version of SkaDate Dating Software! Yes, you read that right; after collecting user-feedback and analyzing latest market trends for months, we are finally rolling out the long-awaited next iteration of our acclaimed product. We hope you are just as excited as we are!

Meet SkaDate Master

We went with Master as the moniker, since we believe this version of SkaDate dating script is truly a Master solution to start online dating site or business. To date, this is the most complete SkaDate build we ever released, packing several dozen features under the hood – more than any other solution on the market.

We’ve polished up the software back-end to make it easier to operate, added a few exciting user-requested features to remain an industry trendsetter, and most importantly, we’ve optimized the script performance, making it the fastest SkaDate yet. Let’s look into the new package in more detail.

SkaDate Master Optimization Boost

As market leaders we simply couldn’t overlook such an important factor for running a dating site as software performance. After all, the recent industry boom resulted in fast growth of most dating sites, some boasting thousands and even millions of active users.

SkaDate Master Performance BoostTo make sure all SkaDate-powered sites, both content-heavy and just beginning, operate as smoothly as possible, we have made an extra effort optimizing software requests, which resulted in over 50% performance boost.

On top of that, we have integrated CloudFlare services, which ensure that sites remain online even during downtime, and enjoy additional acceleration in site loading due to implementation of cloud-share technologies.

SkaDate Master Additional Security and Spam Protection

The integration of CloudFlare also allowed us to significantly increase site protection.  We, however, did not stop there and introduced additional tools to counteract the ever-growing number of Spam requests dogging popular websites.

SkaDate Master Site Security

The software now allows site owners to block entire countries based on IP, or enable black list IP blocking system from StopForumSpam – a platform created specifically to collect malicious IPs all across internet, so that individual admins don’t have to spend hours moderating their websites.

SkaDate Master New Major Features

SkaDate Master Google Maps IntegrationWhile we are quite proud about the new Optimization and Site Protection  features, we know the most excitement comes from the shiny new toys we give to site runners and their members. Behold:

  • Google Maps Integration

You can now add additional visual representation of all online members on the site, as well as display distance between given users in the profile view;

  • Google+ Inviter

We have supplemented our present Facebook Inviter with Google+ to make it easier than ever to invite even more friends to join your growing dating sites;

  • Completeness Bar

Give your site users more visual reference when they change their profiles. The components shows how complete the profile is with a percentage value and a graphic gauge;

  • Drag-and-Drop for Navigation and Profile Fields

The work with Navigation and Profile Fields has been made much easier and user-friendly with an intuitive Drag-and-Drop system;

SkaDate Master Drag-and-Drop

  • Slideshow

As requested, this feature gives any site even more visual flare, with a custom slideshow on the Index Page. Just add your pictures and move the component to the appropriate page position;

SkaDate Master Slideshow

  • WYSIWYG Editor for Custom Pages and Blogs

This is another much-requested feature that substantially improves the work with Blogs and Custom Pages by introducing a professional WYSIWYG Editor;

SkaDate Master Blogs

  • Integration of 2checkout.com

We have added another alternative Payment Gateway to our extensive collection, to allow even more business growth opportunities and flexibility for doing eCommerce.

  • Site Structure Overhaul

Understandably, it was becoming easy to get lost within the Admin Area as we continuously added more user-requested features to SkaDate. Fear not, we have rearranged some of the items inside the system to improve the intuitive work approach.

SkaDate Master Other Feature Improvements

  • New option allows to disable interactions between members of the same gender;
  • Site language can now be auto-selected for specific countries;
  • Classifieds have been enhanced with a new search option;
  • Albums can now be made password-protected;
  • New option allows to add custom affiliate banners;
  • Most displayed error messages were overhauled for better understanding;
  • Searching the site now displays the total number of found results;
  • All external links now have a no-follow attribute;
  • New option allows to test third-party SMTP setup before sending mail;
  • Myriad of other minor improvements and bug fixes;

Visit this page for a full list of all SkaDate Master features.

SkaDate Master New Free Theme

No SkaDate Release is complete without a new template. This time our Design Department came up with a bright and shiny traditional dating theme in Gold 2.  Combining best elements of our past efforts, Gold 2 is already our favorite and is a benchmark for SkaDate professional templates for years to come. Be the first to try it on!

SkaDate Master Free Theme

SkaDate Master Conclusion

SkaDate Master is the ultimate build of SkaDate, and the natural progression in our effort of producing best dating software tools on the market. SkaDate Master can be used by both, beginning startupers with ambition to conquer online dating industry, and seasoned companies  with vast experience in the area of online business.

To see SkaDate Master in action, please visit our Demo Page. Don’t forget to check out our portfolio featuring real examples of active dating sites running on SkaDate. If you are the current owner of a previous SkaDate build, please contact our Support Service for the Update Instructions. Otherwise, get in touch with SkaDate Pre-Sales Team to ask any additional questions or to purchase SkaDate Master now.

SkaDate Dating Software Tips:
Choosing Good Template

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

SkaDate Dating Software Tips: Choosing Good TemplateIt is not a secret to anyone that after spending about 20 second on any given site, new users are ready to make a critical decision of whether to stay or move on to something else. To boost the ratio of staying visitors, or even to convert them into regular users, SkaDate Dating Software designers make professional templates as much instinctively clear as possible.

On one hand, templates shouldn’t be overloaded with graphics, but at the same time, they still have to be eye-catching. The main quality guidelines for SkaDate Dating Script templates include, but not limited to bright and special details, unique look, and the ease of navigation.

The first thing that needs to be done is to narrow a dating template choice by niche specification. This will help you in picking about 3 main colors and placing right ascents. Never overload your main page with graphics or text content. The aim here is to present the site’s mood and allow visitors to recognize the chosen niche just by glancing specific details. A carefully selected picture, as the main element of a dating template, will show users what’s ahead: traditional dating personals, religious dating, dating for marriage, adult, gay or lesbian, or even something unorthodox, like vegan, sports, pet lovers, travel dating, and so on. The right picture will give visitors much more information than a long text description punctuated by a myriad of images.

After defining the template appearance it’s time to think over elements that should be present on the main page. Choose between Join and Login forms, and give them enough space to grab the visitors’ immediate attention. By this point you must have spent a lot of time and efforts to drive some live traffic to your site. That is why it is vital to make sure potential users clearly understand what to do – join the site and become members.

Particular attention should be paid to ads, as they must not distract visitors from the site’s main presentation. Use only small amount of ads and banners if you must, and keep in mind that they should be unpretentious.

Before making the final decision while choosing a template, look through professional dating sites and demos. Define your dating niche and colors, and then choose a ready template. Only a professional solution will save your time and allow you to concentrate fully on the promotion.

Note that in addition to superb and leading personals script, we also offer a wide range of eye-catching templates for various niches, including dating personals, social networking, or adult themes. Select your professional dating template on SkaDate.com; for instance, take a look at our brand new Ardent Theme. Moreover, you can always design new dating site templates or order a unique design, created just for your business from scratch, based on your ideas and preferences. Make your online enterprise a successful startup!

SkaDate Dating Software Templates

Friday, September 7th, 2012

SkaDate Dating Software TemplatesAs we move ever closer to the next regular point release of SkaDate Dating Software, the excitement continues to build in anticipation of new features and templates that will make it into the final package. Don’t worry we’ve listened to your suggestions throughout the year and can say that when the time comes you won’t be disappointed.

Until that happens, and while the development team is still busy polishing SkaDate dating script to perfection, let’s take a look at our extensive collection of templates and chose five of them best suited for basic niches. With a little customization they can be modified to satisfy practically any taste.

 

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