Guaranteed Designs Free Paysite Tips

For this tip I’m going to share with you some of the links and software that I have in my little bag o’ tricks. Over the years I’ve found lots of neat tools to make my jobs easier and hopefully my projects more profitable. Maybe you can make good use of them too.

• Google Calendar ( http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/tour.html): Since this new tool came out, I’ve put it to use in several ways. One great way that is directly related to paysite operation is using it to deliver things like webcam appearance schedules for solo girls. Another use is for managing project deadlines with a crew. It’s a robust and easy to use tool. For the solo girl site thing there’s another little application that you can use to present the schedules at: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/eventscalendar.shtml
• Flash Chat (http://www.tufat.com/s_flash_chat_chatroom.htm): This is a great cheap chat client, also good for use with solo girl sites. If you’re running a live webcam show and need the chat room aspect to go with it, this thing let’s you have a moderator and banned words and all kinds of advanced features for only 5 bucks! It’s also a nice tool for running live customer support.
• Joomla (http://www.joomla.com/): There are a few real nice content management systems available specific to our industry but if you want to check out something that is extremely robust and completely free I suggest you have a look at this. I’ve messed with it on some non-adult client projects and was very impressed but haven’t yet seen anyone put it into action in adult. I don’t see where it wouldn’t work just as well though.
• Favicons (http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/): Do you like those little icons that pop up next to a url in a browser and on your bookmark list? Make one for your site with this neat little online tool.
• Color Scrollbars (http://www.layoutland.net/generators/scrollbar.htm): If you want to customize the scrollbar the browser displays (IE only) on a webpage then you can use this online tool to generate the code. I like to do this mostly when I’m embedding i-frames.
• Abstract Fonts (http://www.abstractfonts.com/): You can never have enough fonts and the weird, abstract ones can be great for logos.
• Hex Color Finder (http://www.softsea.com/review/Hex-Color-Finder.html): So you need to match a color in an image into a piece of HTML. The long way to do it is to save or screen capture the image, load it into Photoshop, use the eyedropper on the section you need and then use the color manager to see the hex value. Heck that even takes long to type. Or you could just download that tool and grab it right off the browser.
• Photoshop Shapes & Brushes (http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_shapes.html): One of the hugest time savers in Photoshop is to have a large array of cool brushes and shapes you can draw from rather than having to create everything from scratch. Take a look at these and put ‘em to good use.
• Webpage/CSS Inspector (http://www.getfirebug.com/): This one is for Firefox users only. They say the greatest form of flattery is imitation and I’m sure most of what many of us have learned about design and coding has come from looking at others work and source code. This little FF plugin will help you pull apart pages you love (and their respective style sheets) faster than anything else I’ve seen. Viewing source code is always easy too but this allows you to pull things apart in selection areas and get to the underlying files that you can’t always get to in the source.
• Board Tracker (http://www.boardtracker.com/): Stay connected to what’s going on with thousands of boards. They have a ton listed listed for adult specifically. I like the feature where you can set it up to email you whenever a post with certain keywords appears. If you do a lot of B to B this is a must!

Well that’s it for this tip. I hope you find all this usefull and I wish ya’ll Happy Holidays.