Message from your future webmaster - Paul

 

With 259 days remaining before rollout we are working hard to provide everyone in the swinging lifestyle one of the finest websites for swingers that anyone has ever seen.

Support for this project from many of our past members has been outstanding so far. We love hearing from all of you. We also love you giving us your input as always.

 

We are very excited about the things this website will offer. While it seems the feature list is endless we have made every effort to provide the best of the best features and more. A lot more.

 

But feature are not everything. As many of you already know our support was second to none. After rollout of this website it will continue to be second to none. 

 

We will always be available 24 hours a day by phone or email to help you in any way we can in your swinging endeavor. Yes, you will be able to speak directly to Ann or I at anytime. No big corporate phone system with people answering the phone that are completely useless.

 

The biggest benefit our users have always had was that we too are in the lifestyle and we not only run the website we also use it. So if we see something out of place, we will correct it as fast as possible. Be it the cyber troll or a broken page or anything in between.

 

Swinging is meant to be fun and exciting. To that end, we will provide a swingers website that will indeed be just that and a whole lot more. We will once again offer lifetime memberships to any user that wants one for the entire time this new website is in operation. The membership prices will not be expensive. They will be very reasonable and the best thing is they will be cheaper than any other large swinger website on the web. You can not beat that deal. The best website with the best features and it will be the least expensive of all the big ones.

 

We will offer lifetime memberships even if the merchant providers will not allow us to use there credit card service to accept payments. In this case, they will be offered through another type of third party merchant service or in the worst case scenario you would need to mail a check. We are going to rollback all the prices to where they were when we started 9 years ago and keep those prices for one full year after our rollout.

 

This new website will completely AJAX enabled. In case anyone is unaware of what this will mean, I will explain as best I can.

 

Have you ever ran a program on your local computer? Well if you have, you will notice a big difference between how those applications work and how most websites operate. On a local computer when you say click a button or do something you get instant feedback. But on the web when you do the same thing you need to wait for the page to reload- before you get that same feedback. Well the act of the page refreshing is called a postback. This means when you submit the page it needs to go out to the server and redisplay the entire page back to your browser. This is a slow and clunky process and it makes the entire user experience something to be desired. Ajax enabled websites make that postback in the background and they only update- the part of the page that has changed. So all the user sees is the data change. No flashes, No waiting for the entire page to reload- and it will make the entire website run faster from the users prospective.

 

Back 9 years ago when I wrote the Swapper Network website I made some real mistakes. I wrote it in such a way that it was very hard to fix problems and add new features. The main issue was bad data base design.

When I wrote the website, I did not have the tools or the knowledge that I have today. Thus it was difficult for me to update- it to the current times. Well all that has changed this time around. The new database design is outstanding.  It will support a huge userbase with no slow down in performance or limitation of features.

 

So after we rollout with a feature list that is truly amazing, we will constantly be adding new tools to fit with your swinging needs.

 

This means it will be easier than ever to meet people and weed out the undesirables you do not want to meet.

We will also provide some interesting tools for you to keep in contact with your closest swing buddies.

 

You know it is the simple things that make or break a swingers website. One thing I always wanted to add to the old website was a simple spell checker because my spelling is terrible. Well, this website will not only have a spell checker but it will have a full text editor like the ones you see in MSWORD.

 

You will be able to add formated text to your messages, add bullets, tables, emoticons, change fonts, align text, preview messages in HTML or preview how it will look to users.

 

Another thing I always hated was if people wanted to chat in real time they would need to give out there IM name in their profile and then hope the other user had IM too. Well forget all that. We are going to offer our own home grown chat system the will blow you away. It may even support video chat.

 

Picture galleries. Don't even get me stated on this one. I will just say that no one and I mean no one has ever thought of this idea yet and it will also blow you away!

 

This is but a small sample of some of the things we will be offering here. I would love to go into more detail but I do not want to let the cat out of the bag just yet.

 

On the final note I will just say that this new website will be very easy to understand and use with help at every turn. As a matter of fact, even our help pages are smart interactive pages. You will be able to get answers to every single thing our website has to offer.

 

- Paul