Project Detail

Description

We need a custom made Gay/ Lesbian Dating, Civil partnership script making for us, we have come up with design but need an experienced script or company to develop us thius script on spec, people putting in offers need to take into consideration that we will provide design and the quotes need to reflect this. The script also needs to be fully editable with ease by templates system . The script needs to fot all the requirments below.


• REQUIREMENTS:
An experienced web developer to take onboard a project which I am very enthusiastic about. My project will be based on a matrimonial site for people to communicate and meet new potential partners through the website.

I wish to have our site designed similar to and including aspects of:
http://dating.guardian.co.uk/s/
www.gay-parship.co.uk
http://www.shaadi.com/

Breakdown of Site Features
• Site should adhere to current accessibility/disability legislation.
• Credit card processing and Paypal capabilities.
• Site should work in all current browsers and resolutions.

Home Page
• The Home page will contain the site’s main logo (the homepage should be editable for images and advertising placements).
• Women’s portal
• Men’s portal
• There will be a login box to allow users to quickly login to their profile.
• A Join Now button, which will take the user to create a Free Members Profile, (similar to Guardian Soulmates).
• There will also be a quick search facility where users that have not joined can get a taste of who is subscribed (search only consisting of Gender, Age, Sexuality, Residence, Religion, Main Language, Marital status and with photos).
• There will be the latest 5 people (3 women and 2 men) that have joined and logged in displayed on the main page (initially this facility will be hidden until membership grows).
• A few links to static pages about same-sex unions and safety policies, etc. (Should be editable for images and advertising placements)
+Help
++Contact Us- via an online feedback form
++FAQs
++Terms and Conditions
++Privacy Policy
+Tips for success:
++Making Auntyonline work for you
++Safety tips
++Finding the right person for you
++Finding the perfect photo for your profile
++6 Cs of happy marriage
+Same-sex marriage in Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Sikhism
+Civil partnerships in the UK
+Civil partnerships around the world
+Advertising on Auntyonline.com


Creating a Profile
• Each visitor to our site will have the ability to create a free profile.
• Categories without data or omitted should be hidden as unmarked fields during searches.

• Free registration profile will consist of the following questions:
-Nickname (should be between 4-20 characters. It can only contain letters and/or numbers (0-9, a-z, A-Z, ‘_’). Example Sitadoctor_28.)
-E-Mail Address
-Password
-Date of Birth/Age
-Gender
-Sexuality
-Religion
-Residence
-Looking for a relationship
They will also be required to agree to Auntyonline.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Conditions.

Subscribed Users will be asked a series of questions which will be part of their profile. Such as the following:
-Username
-Password
-Real Name
-E-Mail Address
-Date of Birth
-Sexuality
-HIV status
-Gender
-Differently bodied/abled:
-Living status
-Relationship Status
-Looking for a Relationship?
-Wanting children?
-Upload own Photo
-Upload own Videos

Subscribed Users will then be asked short questions, on subjects such as:
-Geography and location
-Religion
-Education and Profession
-Physical Attributes
-Character
-Lifestyle
-Habits

All answers being in drop down box or check box format And have an option to select responses importance; +Not at all important
+Slightly important
+Moderately important
+Decidedly important
+Absolutely crucial

• Subscribed Users will need to provide a short Personal Description i.e. personality. Text to be at least 20 words long and maximum length is about 500 words (2000 characters).

• They will also need to complete an Ideal Partner description. Text to be at least 20 words long and maximum length is about 500 words (2000 characters).

• Subscribed Users to provide a picture of themselves or an icon provided by us. Photo Security - All photos to have watermarks. Nobody can simply right-click and download photograph.

• Once the profile has been created the Subscribed Users will be able to change any of these details at any time by logging into the site.

Subscribed Users will be able to upload photographs to their profile area – they will have the ability to create 7 photos. When a photograph is uploaded it will be automatically re-sized by the server to create a smaller thumbnail version of the picture – The larger version will be shown if a user clicks on one of the thumbnails to view it in more detail.
Accept & Decline System - ensures that members communicate only with people they are interested in. Members should be able to simply decline a person and the member is blocked from contacting them again.

Browsing Profiles
For FREE Profile Members:
-Users will only be able to search the database of users by Age, Sexuality, Residency, Religion, Looking for a Relationship, Users with their own Photo.
-From the results the user will NOT be able to communicate with any other Member only VIEW their profiles, but will be able to send interest icons.
-Categories without data or omitted should be hidden as unmarked fields during searches.

Interest icons
These will be icons that can be sent without subscription and can also be responded to via other icons. There will also be prompts in users inbox suggesting signing up to obtain contact details of anyone who has shown them interest.

For Subscribed Members:
Users will be able to search on all attributes:
-Username
-Age
-Sexuality
-HIV status
-Gender
-Differently bodied/abled:
-Living status
-Relationship Status
-Looking for a Relationship?
-Wanting children?
-Geography and location
-Religion
-Education and Profession
-Physical Attributes
-Character
-Lifestyle
-Habits
-Users with their own Photo

When the user submits the search, they will be presented with their results giving the user the option of how many results to show on each page. The result will be the picture of the user and their Username, Age, Sexuality, Residency, Religion, Looking for a relationship and Personal Description, clicking the user will then show the rest of their profile.

Categories without data or omitted should be hidden as unmarked fields during searches.

What extras will the Subscribed Members have?
-Users will be able to have a pool of 7 photos, which can be hidden or shown to all users.
-Users will be able to upload up to 5 videos to their profiles. Video Security - All videos to have watermarks. Nobody can simply right-click and download the video.
Video file should be in any of the following formats:
- Quick Time Movie (.MOV)
- Video for Windows (.AVI)
- MPEG Movie (.MPG, .MPEG)
- Digital Video (.DV, .DVI)
- Windows Media ( .WMV)
Maximum duration of each video is 2 mins.
Video file size cannot exceed 50MB.
-Users will have a PERFECT MATCH button which will search for partners with the attributes matched as ‘Absolutely crucial’ and display results.

+Messaging Service:
-Users will be able to send each other private messages
-Each user will have a messages section where they can review all the messages they have been sent and reply to any.
-All private messages will only appear in the user’s private messages section.
-Users will be able to delete any private messages at any time.
-Users will be warned that messages will be automatically deleted after a month.
-NOTE: messages will not be able to display email addresses.
-User will be able to use flirts in private conversations. i.e. sending an animated kiss, hug etc.
-Users will be able to send pictures from their Picture Pool.
-Users will be able to send videos from their Video Pool.

+Events
-There will be an events management system that allows administrators to enter events for specific areas of a country, venues and dates.
-Each event will have a name, description, promotional photograph, Special Offers.
-Users will be able to browse through these events and click to say that they will be attending one. This event will then show up in their profile, other users will be able to search for people by what event they will be attending in the future or an event they have previously attended.
-When an event is completed, the administrators will be able to upload photographs for that event and these will be displayed in a photo album. The photos will have watermarks. Nobody can simply right-click and download a photograph.

Administration
-Through a password protected administration section, administrators will be able to view the profiles of all users signed up to the website
-Administrators will be able to remove unsuitable photographs and change any member’s details.
-Administrators will also be able to send an e-mail out to everyone who has signed up for a profile on the site e.g. to tell them about a new feature or events.
-All the e-mail addresses on the website will be able to be exported as a list and be part of a Content Management System.
-A report facility will show a scaling of members most blocked, hits to the site per month, bouncing e-mails.
- Last Online date in member profiles, and also provide notifications of read messages to the sending member
- Maintenance of Members database by website administrator.
- Website is customisable by web administrator.

Tell a friend
-Users will be prompted to enter their friends e-mail addresses both when they are registering for their profile and via a menu link on every page of the site this hopefully will help grow the site membership quickly.
-Any friend that joins a paid subscription will automatically get the referrer a 20% discount off their next month’s membership.

Search Engine Optimisation
-All site pages will be fully search engine optimised including both the way the pages are coded and the text used within those pages.
-The site will also contain a links page which will have a big effect on search engine placement if used correctly.

Payment
Once a user has decided to sign up they can choose from the following payment options.
We accept Visa, Delta, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Eurocard, American Express, Switch, Maestro, Solo, cheques or postal orders (denominated in Pounds Sterling) and also Paypal.
There needs to be a facility for users to add promotional codes and receive discounted subscriptions.