5 Star Website Update

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Originally Posted by hungwell11

I've been working on a new design concept for the site. Key features:

- Elegant design with easy access to key info (location and girl details) on the front page
- Custom header with logo and modern touch
- Clicking the tiles of the girls bring up a new page with information on each of the girls (along with a list of links to the After Reports that you suggested)
- Easily expandable to include new girls and easy to update.

See below for the work so far:

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Happy to work together to create something that suits your needs. If you're interested, I can PM you a link to the website so far, you can play around, see what you like or don't like and give some feedback so I can try and implement.

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That's a nice piece of work hungwell11. Bravo. It would be a pleasure to browse such a web site.

Simplicity is best in these things, and you've nailed it.

For what it's worth 5 Star, I work in corporate communications with fancy (and expensive) web designers all the time. I can say that what hungwell11 has suggested here is blue chip standard. You should get him in for the day, do the new web site, learn how to make updates on its content management system, and you're away.

If you're really going to go ahead with a web site revamp, please don't do a quick fix-it job. Let hungwell11 show you how it's done and your new web site will be the gift that keeps on giving -- to you, and to all of us.

Reminds me of that old parable from the Bible:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Here is an example of how to go about this in a non-from scratch manner in order to avoid all the work(and pitfalls) involved there. This is provided profiles are kept up to date etc.

1. Wordpress. Why? Lots of themes/layouts available and because it is the largest platform it is relatively easy to find someone to work on it.

2. A theme from a reputable seller. This will run up to $100. So nothing. Will your site be unique? No. But it doesn't matter and more importantly it will look good and be quick to get up and running. It will be unique in your niche.

3. Type of theme. A straight up blog theme is not going to work here without lots of work, and in truth an ecommerce setup is more what you are after (girls = products, not blog posts).

Selling cars is a similar concept to selling girls. Each item is "unique" and requires a new listing. While a girl is working she can be "for sale". When she is no longer working she can be "sold" and no longer appear "in stock". If the theme back end has a "featured cars" type page this can be used to indicate what girls are currently working. https://themeforest.net/item/auto-sh...95336?s_rank=2

4. Obviously colours, fonts, etc need work and even the style might not be suitable. The site itself is not really the problem as rojandro919 said, keeping it up to date is the challenge. Doing photos on the cheap with phones and crap lighting detracts immensely from how "good" a site looks.

http://i.imgur.com/BroCeyqg.jpg

Reminds me of that old parable from the Bible:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime[/QUOTE]

Or the alternative - teach a man how to fish and he'll spend all day in a boat drinking beer

amazing how the community come about to support their favourite shop :)

5 star boss should give them some lovin ;)

what? are we gonna see 5 star girls in the parade? :question:

You got me excited ;) i waited there and nothing !

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Originally Posted by 5 Star City

That's great...simple and effective
Will Pm you bro

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A quick update on where things are at – tweaked the design a little bit.

1. All done on Wordpress, the largest and most popular CMS platform. Very easy to update, does not require technical knowledge. As Speechwriter suggested, if you're interested I can come in for a day and take you through the simple process of how to update.

2. The theme I have chosen is a free theme from Wordpress and as far as I’m aware, has not been used before in the industry so it will definitely be unique. Simple and effective is what I was aiming for with this design and so far, I think it paints a picture of an industry-leading shop, which aligns with 5 Star’s quality.

Site map of the homepage:

http://i.imgur.com/rXpDZggl.png

Example of June’s page (when you click on her tile):

http://i.imgur.com/ac5MOWdl.png

Roster page:

http://i.imgur.com/lYDXVJEl.png

Also have an About Us (some info about the shop) and Employment page (recruitment of future ladies) set up.

5 Star City – let’s make this happen. My PM inbox is ready for your valuable feedback.

I'd love to see prices on the website. I always had trouble trying to find how much each girl cost. All other websites and rosters had this easily available.

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Originally Posted by hungwell11

Site map of the homepage:

http://i.imgur.com/rXpDZggl.png

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Very nice clean and simple layout hungwell. But I think make the splash image at the top cleaner and clearer too. The black banding is annoying, looks like a television screen that has f**ked uo, or like trying to look at something through flyscreen mesh.

The logo looks a bit too serious, may look a bit more flirty if you draw a bra hanging from that horizontal point on the right. ;) ;) ;)

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Originally Posted by wilisno

The logo looks a bit too serious, may look a bit more flirty if you draw a bra hanging from that horizontal point on the right. ;) ;) ;)

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Yes, it does look too corporate - otherwise it is a good logo. It needs something playful added like wilisno suggests. :D

Yes, the original website is pretty daggy , but it does have a cute, daggy homespun chinese charm. :D

*sigh* I suppose it is better to hipsterise the website up, but hungwell, what about adding back just a little daggy touch or two to give it back a bit of its homespun charm. :prettiness: :big_smile: :D :D Maybe I'm talking though my arse. :victory:

Great work. Maybe add something for each girl as to whether they see all or Asians only

Appreciate all the feedback guys.

Wilisono, God Member – hahah you guys are creative. Something like below? Thoughts on the red/gold theme? My preference is actually the more professional look, but that’s because I’m boring. It does add a playful touch though, which is nice. Will see what the big Boss thinks.

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Bigeasy – thanks mate, that’s a good suggestion. Will keep this in mind.

Spiral – Agree, I’m a big fan of prices on the website as well, which is why I’ve proposed to have them on both the girls page and the roster page for easy access.

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Hahaha nice one!

Great work. If a lady rostered on Friday at 2pm pulls out that Friday morning, does the roster get updated. In other words can a website be relied upon

Over the long run, do websites get maintained on a daily or second daily basis.

The best web sites are maintained in real time. You make updates to the minute or even to the second. They are living things!

So in your example, where the girl pulls out on Friday morning for her Friday 2pm start, 5 Star updates its web site and the new info is published within seconds.

Real time website.
Why dont more shops do it?

Because it takes a human being to sit in front of a computer to make the changes. It's labour intensive.

That person needs to know what they're doing (not difficult) and they need to be compensated for their efforts (sometimes not what the shops want to do).

This is the main reason why the web sites of most shops are so shit. They just don't want to pay for quality.

And who would blame them when there businesses flourish anyway?

Speechwriter. I would be surprised if the shops with nonfunctional websites, wouldnt appreciate more trade. I dont understand the point that shops cant be f- d updating things at little as once a week.

On another topic, shops that use wechat often update 3x daily, and that is essentially real time - and easier to read on a phone than a full website

I think linking the girls profile to the roster with an image is a good idea. Pennys77 does this well

http://pennys77.com.au/timetable/