High Heel Designs

I have never been able to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to blog about here.

I mean, I know technically it should be about design-related and industry issues and I’ve tried mightily, but because I’ve been personally blogging online since 1997 (yes, REALLY), I can’t get over the urge to blog personally here.

So I get started on an on-topic post and suddenly find myself veering off into Personalland.

To make matters worse, I have slacked off in my personal blogging since I started designing websites for escorts (six years ago), so one of my biggest outlets has suffered.

Pondering …

Go see it – it’s GREAT!

Being laid up in bed all weekend made it possible for me to get my site re-design finished.

Take a look around, maybe you’ll see something you like!

Starting IMMEDIATELY, I will be enforcing the free change policy. Your change request MUST be in my email box by 5pm CST on Wednesday evening to be added to that week’s free updates.

If you have a request that you want taken care of BEFORE Thursday, you WILL be charged my regular $30/hr fee, paid in advance, before you are added to the bottom of my current project list.

If you have a request that must be taken care of immediately, you WILL be charged the $60/hr “Rush Rate”.

As always, any emergency situation that puts a client in danger and jeopardy takes precedence over all.

We have all been affected by the economy. Your cost of living has been affected, just as mine has. Everyone loses potential clients when our website is operational (unless of course we are doing OTHER advertising besides our website, which we should be). I have many of the same bills, expenses and responsibilities that you do.

Your rates are non-negotiable. So are mine.

I have three clients who charge less than $250/hr. It takes me nearly TEN HOURS to make what the rest of you make in ONE HOUR.

One of the most important things that you MUST do when creating your website – or having one created for you – is to be sure that your website displays correctly on all major browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, the new Google Chrome and AOL.

Ensuring that your website is accessible to your viewers should be one of your top priorities. A website can become not only ugly, but absolutely inaccessible and unnavigable, to many of your potential clients.

Good website designers test their designs during development to make sure that the pages they build look identical – or at least close to identical – on different browsers. Be sure that your designer has enough experience in design to know that.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Just because you can drive a car, doesn’t mean you should race at Talladega.

Just because you have a Waterpik®, doesn’t mean you can pull your own teeth.

Just because you can use a sewing machine, doesn’t mean you should make every item in your wardrobe.

Just because you have a computer and a free website design program doesn’t mean you should create your own website.

Unless you actually create websites for a living, you should leave web design to the professionals. Web design isn’t one of those things that you can teach yourself to save some money. If you’re not a professional designer, your self-designed site looks exactly like what it is – unprofessional and homemade. If you think your potential clients won’t know the difference, you’re dead wrong. Potential clients do notice the quality of your website; if your looks unprofessional, they’ll think your services are unprofessional too.

A website has to be more than pretty pictures and a bunch of links and text. When designing a site, especially one that is supposed to make you money, keep in mind that the site should use properly sized fonts and optimized images; it should be easy to read and fast to load. A well-designed website is viewable in all current major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome).

Like your photographs and your wardrobe, your website distinguishes you from your competition. If your site is a clone of thousands of others or if it looks self-done, don’t fool yourself, you are likely out of the running. The providers who spend hundreds of dollars on luxurious lingerie and professional photography do so because they can’t make LaPerla® panties and no matter how nice their camera is, they will never be Santillo.

Photography, lingerie design and web design are things best left to the professionals; they have the skills and the experience to represent you in your best light and make you look your best.

Ladies, if/when you register a domain name through r-e please keep in mind that you DO NOT own that domain name!

r-e owns it

If you ever decide to upgrade to a professional site, it will be like pulling chicken’s teeth trying to get control of what you THOUGHT was yours.

This has been a public service announcement from HHD/YourGFE.

Carry on …

It’s no secret that I hate rare-escort sites with a white hot burning passion I usually reserved for flies, ex-husbands and idiot drivers. I’ve spent a lot of time giving my opinion as to why they are inferior.

At some time you’ve lost a potential client because of R-E. Somebody, somewhere has found you interesting, clicked your website link, got an eye-full of “F*CK A LOCAL GIRL” and promptly clicked the little “x” in the corner because those banners don’t fit with the description “classy and sophisticated“. If you spent a nice little chunk of ching on your photos, your photographer is wondering why his work of art has been reduced to those little tiny, grainy thumbnails and is plastered over with that god-awful, tacky “watermark.”

Additionally, r-e doesn’t (and CAN’T) offer the peace of mind working with a real, caring individual does. I’ve been in the web-design business for nearly ten years and I intend to be doing this long after some design “companies” have moved on to their next big money making venture. Designing for SPs isn’t just a “quick” job, for me. I make a point of learning something new in regard to my business every day, and I’ve make an extra effort to learn and educate myself on ways that I can help my SP clients do their job in the safest way possible. It is my goal to present the women who choose this line of work in the most-flattering, least dangerous light possible.

It’s never been my aim to alienate or insult anyone who’s chosen to advertise with r-e, but I’m aware that I probably have done both and for that I apologize. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for free … I REALLY am. I HONESTLY don’t have a problem with free. But NOT if it a) doesn’t help and b) potentially HARMS someone. What is the POINT of having a free website if it alienates your potential clients and puts you and your business in a bad light?

You get what you pay for and “free” isn’t always “free”. In the (paraphrased) words of a hobbyist: “If an established SP who charges a substantial hourly amount is using a FREE website, it makes you wonder.”

I am running a two-tier special, SPs without a site and SPs with r-e sites.

BENEFITS FOR BOTH: One year FREE PRIVATE domain registration and hosting. (That means that you NEVER have to share your personal information with me. You get a beautiful site, I get paid and while I NEVER need to know your true name, you are always welcome to know mine.) Free basic text changes – forever. Your choice of whether or not you want to be found by the search engines. Free basic optimization and uploading of your photos, which are then uploaded in an attractive, very viewable manner. A professional website, done by an experienced professional designer with nearly a decade of experience, at a damn near FREE price.

1) NEW DESIGNS: Five pages (Home/Bio (with disclaimer), an up to 10-photo Image Gallery, Services/Rates Page, Links Page and Contact Page), your choice of colors, no Flash, one registration form, one animated banner, personalized email. No two sites alike. Once you’ve agreed to the design, layout, color scheme etc, the site is locked in for the VERY low price of $300. Additional pages, updates, services, etc. are always available at my standard prices.

2) R-E SITE OWNERS: As many pages as you currently have on r-e. Seriously. Whether you have five pages or ten pages … same low, rock-bottom price. All copy/text information taken directly from your current r-e site. You get a beautiful, viewable gallery (whether your photos are self taken w/a damn cell-phone or are expensive, professional shots, I can make ‘em look pretty without compromising reality). Your choice of colors. No Flash, one registration form, one animated banner, personalized email. No two sites alike. No tacky tasteless banners. Once you’ve agreed to the design, layout, color scheme etc, the site is locked in for the VERY low, rock-bottom, idiotic price of $250. Additional pages, updates, services, etc. are always available at my standard prices.

The special will run for twenty-four hours and I’m accepting only five new clients.

Ladies, you can’t lose with this. Quality, personal, professional work. A beautiful, tasteful website that’s ALL YOU. All for a ridiculously LOW price. Find out why some of your colleagues refer to me as “awesome”, “incredible” and “a mind reader.”

So that it’s YOURS – NOT someone else’s.

Here is an excerpt from escortsite.com:

As a Registered User, you agree that if you have other websites (not hosted by us) you will display a link to our Website in the form described on the ‘Banners’ page of this website.

Then there’s this:

If you upload, post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit any content, including but not limited to information, messages, software, photos, video, text, graphics, music, sounds, or other material, to us or anyone else via the Website, or if you send us suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, or other information, all such content and information (the ‘Posted Content’) shall be deemed, and shall remain, our property.

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Title: Vacation
Description: Available for emergencies
Start Date: 2009-08-15
End Date: 2009-08-30