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Noir
Established, high-end, photography-led
Black and antique gold, with a serif that still looks right at large sizes. Very little decoration.
Flagship service
Escort website design
that fits how you work.
I design each escort website from scratch, around your brand, your boundaries and the way you work. Then I build it, host it and look after it myself.
- Design + build
- Mobile-first
- Yours to edit
- Since 2001
01 — Three directions
Three example looks
to show the range.
These are concepts I drew to show the range I work in. They aren't for copying. Your site wouldn't look like any of them, because I'd design it around you.
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Demonstration
Blush
Warm, personal, writing-led
Cream and dusty rose with a high-contrast serif. Made for someone whose writing matters as much as their photos.
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Demonstration
Minimal
Understated, gallery-forward, fast
Black type on white. The whole page is the gallery and the booking form, with the decoration taken out.
Every "image" here is a CSS gradient. I don't show client photos without permission, so these concepts are made from type, colour and layout.
02 — Mobile first
Most of your visitors
arrive on a phone.
So I design the phone layout first and test it on real devices. The desktop layout is built out from there, after the phone one works.
- The gallery rearranges itself to fit the screen. Three columns become two, and the images stay big enough to be worth looking at.
- The menu folds into one button your thumb can reach. Opening it doesn't cover what you were reading.
- Rates and availability stay one tap from the top. That's what most people came for.
- I test on real phones. Android and iPhone, upright and sideways, on mobile data as well as wifi.
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03 — What it does
What your site does.
Here are six things a companion site has to do well, and how I build each one.
01 / Gallery
A gallery you manage from your phone
Upload from your phone, drag to reorder, mark an image private without deleting it. Location data is stripped on upload and every size is generated for you.
Put your photos in any order you like
Public and private images sit in the same place, and only you can see which is which.
02 / Screening
A booking form that asks your questions
The form asks for what you need before you'll consider a booking, like references, screening, date and city. It checks the answers, filters out spam and sends each enquiry wherever you read messages.
Email · text · whichever you prefer
If an enquiry is missing something, it's flagged before it reaches you, so you don't have to chase the details.
03 / Rates & touring
Rates and tour dates you change yourself
You can change them yourself in seconds, without waiting on me. Tour dates come down once they've passed, so a March tour isn't still showing in July.
Announce early enough to be indexed before you arrive
What your rates say is up to you. You can also leave them off and ask people to enquire.
04 / Content manager
A content manager that's easy to use
It has only the screens you need, named after the things you change, so you won't be digging through ninety menu items. If you need a manual to edit a sentence, I've built it wrong.
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05 / Discretion
Discretion built in from the start
Some choices on a companion site are about privacy rather than looks, and I make them carefully, with you. None of it costs extra.
You can be easy to find and still hard to identify. You decide which side of the line each detail goes on, and we settle it before launch so nothing has to be fixed after a problem.
06 / Search
Search-ready from the first day
Clean markup, fast pages, real titles and descriptions and a sitemap, all in place from the day you launch. I can't promise rankings, and neither can anyone else.
The title and description are what people see in search before they reach your site, so I write them by hand for each page.
04 — What I said in 2001
I've been saying this since 2001.
I was arguing against templates on this site five months after it went online, and I still think the same thing today.
Take your time and browse our portfolio. You will find that no two web sites are the same. We take care to ensure that every website we design is unique and reflects the personality and style of every one of our clients.
skipsweb.com 27 November 2001 View the archived page (opens web.archive.org in a new tab)
05 — The process
From first message
to live site.
You get a timeline in writing with your quote, before anything starts. If you need it in a hurry, just ask.
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Conversation
Email, call or text me, whichever suits you. Tell me what you do, what you need and what you'd like to avoid. It's free and you're not committing to anything.
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A plan and a price
I put it in writing, so it's clear what's included. If the scope changes later, we agree the new price before I do the work.
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Design and build
You get a private link to the real site as it comes together, and you can comment on anything at any point. Revisions at this stage are part of the job and don't cost extra.
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Your content
Send things as you have them: a document, a folder of photos, voice notes. I'll shape it, and I'll help with the writing if you want.
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Review and launch
You check it on your own phone with your real content. We fix whatever feels wrong. Then it goes live, with TLS, backups and monitoring already in place.
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After launch
I handle updates, changes and support myself. The number you called to start the project is the one you'll still call in two years.
Paying up front, editing it yourself, keeping your domain, rescuing a site you've lost access to: all 21 questions are answered on the FAQ
Start your website
Tell me about the site you want.
Tell me what you have in mind and I'll tell you straight what it would take. There's no obligation to go ahead.
You'll be talking to me.
I reply to every message myself, and I'm the one who builds and looks after your site. There's no account manager or reseller in between. I've been building sites for this industry since 2001.