The Portal and Gallery

We are pleased to introduce our new home page portal. We will slowly be adding content to the new front page like articles, navigation shortcut menus, rss feeds and more! Be sure to check it out and let us know what needs to be on our new front page!

In addition to the new front page portal we have launched out integrated gallery. We told ya we had some goodies in store for 2009!

Check 'em out and have fun!


"What Happens in Windsor...Stays in Windsor!"

The FanZone! 2009

It's been a while since we have posted updates but with good reason. As with all of our endeavours we tweak everything we do to maximize accessibility. We have still been diligently working at growing the site and message boards.

One of the newest additions to The FanZone! has been our meet, greet and hook up in Windsor group. As we dive into the local adult entertainment scene we cannot escape the lack of local resources available. Windsor has a need for a community centered forum for local adults to get together with other like minded adults near home. Sure, like us you can join Facebook, MySpace, etc. but they really are not local, are they? Lots of people, lots of stuff, great networking resources, but its not ours. We anticipate this topic to become very popular and grow our membership quickly.

We are also promoting our adults only free classifieds topics. We know that many of you use Kijiji, Craigs List, etc. We wanted to let you know that so do we and we also have found a lot of good and bad. What we are trying to do is reduce the amount of irrelevant information and keep it local and direct. Plus we allow adult content.

Please note that as we build our groups and message boards we will be on the look out and seeking quality venues and interested sponsors to reward our members. If you know of any businesses or service providers that may be interested in sponsoring events or promotions, pass 'em on so we can pass the goods back!

There is more to come and we are always working to provide you with quality information in an accessible way!

Thxxx Again and Always Remember:

"What Happens in Windsor...Stays in Windsor!"

The FanZone! Redesign

The Fanzone!, our site forum and message boards, has undergone a layout design. Based on the BlackBox theme layout by Crip for SMF.

I really like the look of this theme and have modified some of the css to enhance the functionality and overall look of the site in multiple browsers. As far as the available themes this one is a good fit, from my perspective, for our website and its common look and feel.

The first aspect was to remove the fixed width aspect to allow for a more fluid layout by changing the wrapper width to 100%. The next changes were to enhance links so they have a distinctive difference from the text. I Added yellow font color with additional black background for link hover, to highlight and contrast hovered links and added underline to links in post fields, to highlight links. This is most noticeable when hovering over the link.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks again Crip for the great layout!

The Administrator


"What Happens in Windsor...Stays in Windsor!"

Category Expansions!

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Server and Network Upgrades

In our ongoing efforts to provide our visitors with the ultimate visiting experience we have been upgrading our servers and our network infrastructure. Special thanks our loyal visitors! Thanks to your support and overwhelming peer-to-peer promotion and sharing of our site with your friends. This required us to increase capacity and speed up our infrastructure. We are the only site in town that has to increase our network capacity due to increased visitors. The others simply let their visitors suffer with never loading pages. This process has been phased in over the past couple of weeks to assure the least impact to our visitors. While we have encountered a few issues along the way the results are well worth it. We have completed our server and network upgrades and will resume our css based fluid layout transformation. The layout and presentation upgrades will continue for the next several weeks as will the addition of new categories and topics.

Thanks Again,
The Administrator


"What Happens in Windsor...Stays in Windsor!"

All New Classified Advertising for Adults

We are pleased to, finally, launch our all new classified advertising for mature adults directory. We have been trying out a few different ideas over the past couple of years and have finally decided on our format. Unlike any other classified ad site, we do not hijack our visitors browsers. We have developed a clean, valid, standards compliant format that is easy to utilize, without java tricks.

The simple fact is that over the past few months the previous beta versions were highly visited and ranked in the top 5 for categories with the most unique visitors and page views. Since the redevelopment away from structured tabled layouts has evolved the majority of the site, we could not provide what visitors are looking for, old school classified ads, with type that is large enough to read. This is where our commitment of conformance to a common look and feel for our site as well as the standards compliant, fluid layouts give us the ultimate advantage.

We offer our visitors more content and information about Windsor's red light district than anyone for a reason. Since we have such a vast selection of categories that are all related to mature audiences we had to Launch it as a work in progress, you will help us build the relevant categories. We will start with the basics and visitor feedback will add the rest. Just like the site, this is all new to the Windsor market and will be a shock to the system and we love it!

Below are some of the things that set us apart from any other local 'entertainment' directory, or general directories for that fact:

We offer our loyal visitors:

• Accessible Web Pages
• Fast Loading Web Pages
• A Common Look and Feel
  
• Structured and Consistent Navigation
• Title and Link Tags as well as Visual Aids
  
• More Exclusive Content
• More Choices
  
• More Exposure to More Adult Activities
• and best of all...Relevance.

We do this by providing a complete web directory for mature adults based upon:

• Valid: XHTML PHP, CSS, JavaScript (with noscript options)
  
• No Minimum Browser or Operating System Requirements
• No Java Runtime applications required
• No JavaScript functions or setting requirements
• No Flash or Media Player downloads required
  
• No ActiveX Components
  
• NO INTRUSIVE COOKIES
  

In Return Our visitors offer us:

• More Unique Visits
• More Return Visits
  
• More Page Views per Visit
• More Peer to Peer Referrals
• More Bookmarking and Sharing

These are some of the reasons you should choose the xxxAds!^TM by xxxWindsor.com to post your adult orientated classified advertisements for mature audiences.

Get xxx'd and remember:

"What Happens in Windsor...Stays in Windsor!"

Special offer for advertising and promotions

As we update, re-arrange and add additional categories to our ever growing Adult Entertainment Directory, we would like to extend a special offer to those who took the time to check out our blog.

For a limited time we are offering, on a on a pre-paid and 1st come 1st served basis, the following special pricing incentives:

All featured listings are currently available with special advertising rates. We are letting you decide your monthly rate! Based upon a 1 year commitment, you tell us what being on top is worth to you!

BONUS: If you do not see a category that your products or services fall under, we will add one for you and you will be the King of the Mountain and winner by default! Assuring your place as the #1 choice.

Our suggestion is simple, let us know what your average client/customer would spent on 1 average visit to your establishment or on your services, we'll kick it around a 'lil and that's your preferred rate. Simple enough?

It's a WIN, WIN situation! A months worth of exposure to thousands of visitors, who are in, or will be visiting Windsor soon, seeing your ad. Think of it all you need is one new customer/client to cover the cost. The advantage is for you to reach a new audience, in a new way. Once they are in your door, its up to you to keep them coming back. Our job is then done and the rest is icing on the cake, gravy on the potatoes.

How about a button or banner ad?

Put your logo in the right side of the page! Our site is designed for the ads and logos in the right side of the page to stand out. They are highly visible and extremely effective. In case you haven't notices the right column, never disappears, no side to side scroll issue. Our pages are fluid and your ads remain in view!
Of coarse we have a special offer! For an extremely limited time we will offer you a logo placement for as little as $10 per month based on a pre-paid 1yr listing. ONLY 10 BUCKS!

Want Maximum Exposure?
We are working on lots of good things here and are always open to new opportunities so if you would like to get tons of exposure, let us know about sponsorship opportunities such as our up and coming xxxMaps!^TM. Our new Interactive maps with direction are powered by Google Maps Canada and are second to none! Our xxxMaps!^TM are on our Basic Black format pages, are standards compliant and are also validated, as usual. No fluff and duff on these pages, just good clean mapping with the power of Google! Check them out in the directory listings.

This promotion is not for the faint at heart, you will get exposure, unlike anything Windsor has ever seen. No other site, with traffic anyway, would offer you this opportunity, period.

If that's too much, give us your idea and lets make a deal, it really is that easy!

You Will Need to Contact Us through the site and copy our blog addy into the body of your email or or type BlogZone! Offer in the subject line, with your message, so we can give you this special offer, available to our blog readers. If you actually believe in web-accessibility, standards compliance and validated code to reach broader audiences, this is the only offer you cannot pass up!

Thanks Again,
The Administrator

New buttons and banners

We are in the initial stages of our "Get xxx'd in Windsor!" campaign! The details are to follow and will be posted on our blog!. Here are some of our new buttons and banners.
Check our new Banners and Buttons on our Picasa Web Album.
Please show your support and place one or more on your website(s), personal pages and social network sites!

Be Cool...Spread the Word!

If you would like to banner or link trade visit our Link Trade page and when you do let us know and we will add you to our banners and links page!

Special Event

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New Addition

We would like to let everyone know about our new category Lifestyle and Swingers Clubs serving you in Ontario!

We wanted to help promote the opening of Windsor's ONLY On-premise lifestyle and swingers club, The Suite, by launching an Ontario wide directory. Stop by and check it out and as always we welcome your comments, suggestions and additions!

Thanks again for your continued support,
The Administrator

Spring 2008

This Spring features the beginning of a major web-accessibility project to near completion. Check out the Site Map to see the transfomation. Most of the categories now feature the fully functional fluid layout. There have been several adjustments and transformations along the way but I am sure you will be pleased with the results.

There is also another addition that has been in bet testing and is still in its infancy, our xxxSearch!. We are working on our Google Custom Search engine to help navigate the site quicker. The search function does add a touch to the page load time but the functionality is worth it. It is also being developed for compliance and non-javascript supported.

As for the FanZone!, it is also being upgraded and updated. Out with some of the old and more new stuff as determined by our visitors.

Thanks again for all of your input and participation in our beta testing!


The Administrator

New Sponsor!

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FAQ's

I wanted to point out a few details about the site, its mission and purpose and our target audience.

First off I wanted to tell you this is the first site of its kind. We are taking the lemons handed to us by the auto and manufaturing sector and making lemonade. The city is in dire need to attract tourists and day travelers but have not figured out the magic potion. So as I looked around at the things that make Windsor unique I notice no marketing towards adult entertainment. With the exception of some ads in print and some incomplete and outdated websites. The lack of a clear and focused demographic has resulted in a younger crowd with less spendable income. No one has taken the ability of the internet and presented it to the older crowd. The visitor that has disposable income and does not know about the thing we offer.

I only wondered why not promote things that may draw interest from adults from the US and expand upon them. So lets mix in our legal adult entertainment options and expand, escorts, exotic massage, nude strippers, great beer and liquor and don't forget the Cuban cigars. Mix 'em up and look at what you get. An extremely targeted audience. Who woulda thought?

To many hangups about what there is and what it is. I will tell you this, there is more interest in the way I present our city and with my unique way of branding it than you may think. Name association, community based, brand recognition, targeted audience.

How many other Canadian cities have the ability to draw such US traffic and let 'em pass through so quickly. Sometimes you need to put yourself on the map first and expand your message from there. More of the business owners are afraid of associating with our unique name because of hangups about it. But our visitors keep comming back for more, whats in a name anyway? For me its all about the visitor, if they can get beyond it and enter the site, explore it and get what they need, efficiently, my job is done.

The Transition

The transition towards xhtml strict is going well and the new fluid layouts are getting indexed faster than ever. Since this site was launched I have been paying close attention to the types of devices and browsers used to surf the site. The fluid layouts are yeilding an even more diverse audience. We are also noticing more targeted traffic with far less one hit wonders or untargeted visitors. Our visitors stay and navigate through the categories in a wide and dynamic way. The new tableless layouts are also getting indexed better and we are getting awesome placements in several search engines within days in some cases. We have also noticed an increase in alternative browsers especially PDA/Phone browsers. Nice to see more moblie users checking us out!

The ability to draw a significantly large and targeted audience has allowed us to grow even more. The fact that we provide our content based upon our visitors experiences and suggestions is what sets us apart from the rest. The truth is your site does not need to be fancy to produce real results. Having a clear and focused message, presented in a visitor friendly way is the only thing that matters.

I also would like to mention that the concept of developing for multiple browsers tends to increase your website visitors and the amount of search engine crawling of your site. But it also increases the quality of your content. If you design for accessibility you will also receive a more targeted audience due to the ability for a search engines algorithm to match the users search phrase to the most relevent content.

Web-Accessibility

I have recieved a few inquiries about web accessibility and some real life scenerios. Basically if you havent had the chance to read my comprehensive overview regarding accessibility I can briefly sum it up with some examples.

Common scenerio:

Your website is built with flash or relies on images or active scripts, etc.

Things to ponder:

• What about visitors with older browser or text based browsers? (Will they see your site?)

• What about visitors with dial up or non-traditional connections to the internet? (Will your site load?)

• What if the visitor to your site disables your websites functionality features such as cookies, javascript, reloading, images, etc.? There are tons of privacy and security features for the user to install nowadays, and they use them. (Will your site work?)

• What if the visitor has a visual or physical imparement or disability? (Can they navigate your site?)

The fact that these variables are mostly ignored in favour of the status quo, build for Internet Explorer and don't worry about the rest. Hey not to really knock IE or Microsoft but they really develop their products with themself in mind first and formost. They are a business and are for profit. The fact is that even by looking at this one site of mine, the stats tell me if I designed only for IE I would miss over 30% of my visitors. My stats show that over 30% of my visitors are using: Firefox, Safari, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, PDA/Phone, Konqueror, and Camino browsers regularly. Plus those that utilize Linux, FreeBSD and Macintosh systems. Can you afford to lose over 30% right off the top? I can't. Sure I do get more nonconforming, older browsers that you probably do and its because I have opened the door for them. Not to mention my ever growing legion of Mac users! But the internet is designed to open up information and make iot more available, accessible to more than the old traditional marketing solutions.

Shoud an intenet user be excluded due to technical limitations or financial considerations?

To sum it up, if you have a message to convey or a business to promote, how can you not plan for an alternative, not a replacement, to your current internet marketing strategy that may be excluding potential clients or customers. How many more visitors do you really want to close the door on. We know it is rather unintentional considering you most likely have never heard of web-accessibility until now. As a business owner you know how you have the responsibility for your establishment to be accessible to those with disabilities, well guess what next on the horizon. The Internet. Its being done in many countries today and is spreading to the US and Canada, under the radar. It will only take a few more lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act and our own Canadians With Disabilities Provisions. Have you been to a Government of Canada site lately or have you looked into the US section 508 Guidelines? They are redeveloping all of there sites towards accessibility, for good reason. The question is do you want to get the ball rolling before it becomes mandatory?


Give me some feedback on this one.

For the SP's

I wanted to let all of Windsor's Adult SP's to check out our NEW FREE Profile layout. Just visit our independent escorts main directory page and scroll down, you will notice the new light blue bar below some of the listings. Click on the 'Read More' link and it will jump to our new style profile. Please note, not all features represent the free version. But I will say that the image gallery and viewer are included with your free profile, so make what ya give us good and give us what ya got!

Have ya seen our Google rankings lately? Contact Us for more info!

btw: I am being strongly encouraged by many vistors to expand this category and I need your help. What I need are some sponsors to add approx 5 to 10 new subcategories to make this happen, quickly. Or if you would consider a donation to our R & D and maintainance we would appreciate it very much.

We are the only site based and operated in Windsor and dedicated to the Windsor community, collectively.
Remeber this: What Happens in Windsor, Stays in Windsor! and our vistors know thats what we are all about.

Got Googled and Then Some!

Just a brief update about our newest addition, the Bars and Nightclubs Category.

Since our official 'live' launch of this new category and directory on May 20th, we have hit Google with a bang (and we havent really started,yet). How soon did Google cache this page? A few hours later check out the Answer!
For a few of the most common search terms used for this category, xxxwindsor.com has crossed into the next frontier. I cannot tell you what the search terms are or how they fit into the development , so that Google can make a few more bucks off those who pay for the terms and keep em guessing. I must also declare that our results were mainly on page 2 or page 3 so far, but hey we'll take it and we are proud of it.

As a note to those with whom I have spoken to about the development of this category, this points out the association between validated XHTML strict coding, standards-compliance and web-accessibility all rolled into one. When multiple factors are accounted for and alternatives can be developed properly, you reap many benefits. Accessible web pages show others how far your commitment to them, as a potential customer, really is.

Read more about who is affected by, the social impacts and financial benefits of why designing for accessibility with our comprehensive expaination about web-accessibility on our network partner site with the "family friendly" url: WindsorLive.com

The direct link is: http://windsorlive.com/accessibility

New Sample's

Check out our sample profile pages. They are standard compliant and W3C valid XHTML, CSS.

• Sample A : This is a 2 column fluid layout with a left side menu column. This layout is shown in blue. View this Example
• Sample B : this is a 2 column fluid layout with a right side menu column. This layout is shown in red. View this Example
• Sample C : This is a 2 column fluid layout with a left side menu column. This layout is shown in black. View this Example

NEW Category Launched

We are pleased to announce our ALL NEW Bars and Nightclubs category. This category has been put together with the help of many of our visitors and we would like to say, Thanks!

We checked out all of your submissions and found a bunch more and built the best and most current listings around! We do welcome all of Windor's Bars and Nightclubs to give us more info, we need it and we want it!

And as always, we welcome you to help us make it better! Join our FanZone! Message Boards and rate, review and share your favourite Bars and Nightclubs in and around Windsor Ontario!

Please help us beta test

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