Dating Website Development

Technology has taken people onto a futuristic plane but has left them with highly demanding working lives and little time to socialize. Divorce rates have rocketed and the number of single people has quadrupled since the 1980s. But for every situation there are solutions on offer.

Online dating offers people a chance to find themselves partners sitting in the comfort of their own homes and offices. With instant messaging and fast food, finding relationships online while multitasking at your PC doesn’t seem too far out.

A recent study by Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that about one in 10 Internet-using adults visited a dating website or any site where they can meet people online. The popularity of online dating has been growing fast and research forecasts that $623 million will be spent on online dating websites by 2008. Here are examples of a few high-profile dating websites:

• Match.com
• Personals.yahoo.com
• Personals.salon.com
• Love.org
• Date.com

The owner of a popular U.S. dating website claims: "I wanted to appeal to people like myself, like my friends, who couldn't meet people, not because they were social misfits or because they were quiet or shy, but because they were actually spending more time on their careers."

Internet dating or online dating websites allow members to sign up and seek other like-minded partners from the website’s database. Besides details such as age, gender and location, sharing details such as personal interests and inclinations gave people something more to go by when looking for compatibility.

Social networking sites like LinkedIn, Ryze, Yahoo 360, MySpace and Orkut have all become extremely popular as people make friends and socialize on the internet.

People are getting more specific in their search for partners. If you prefer meeting vegans, dog lovers or Green Peace enthusiasts, there are niche dating sites that will cater to your needs.

O2I has experience in relationship website development and online dating application development. Please see www.iamanartist.com for an example of a Social Networking site that O2I has built. The site is more of a targeted Social Networking site catering to Artists only -- Painters, Writers, Actors, Directors, etc.

Online Dating Website Application Development: Value Added Features

With online dating becoming so common, online dating website application development needs to focus on quality to make the grade. O2I’s online dating website application development helps to create fully seeded, personalized and hosted dating websites which load at Google-speed and are easy to navigate and fun to use. The value-added offerings of O2I’s dating website application include:

• Automatic matching-robot
• Live-Chat
• Instant Messaging (IMs)
• Webcasts
• Message boards
• Popular profiles and featured profiles
• Multi-language support
• Admin Tools with statistics
• Attention to Member Privacy
• Focus on Internet Security

Online Dating Websites: Security Concerns

There is one section of public that has growing concern about the safety of online dating websites. US government regulation of dating services requires internationally oriented dating services to conduct checks on US customers for prior sex offences. Some of the common problems faced in online dating are:

• Instances of married people looking for dates
• Online Predators and Internet Frauds
• Irregularities in fee payment structures of dating websites
• Trial membership offers that block even basic features
• Incidence of online dating related crime

Online Dating Website Application Development to O2I

Outsource2india develops dating website applications to create dating websites that are high on usability, navigation and interface.

Despite rumors that online dating websites were bound to fail, January 2005 saw well over 26 million visitors to relationship and matchmaking websites. Dating websites netted roughly $470 million in 2004, up from $40 million three years earlier according to the Pew study.

Contact us here to outsource your online dating website application development to O2I for a fully-featured dating website.

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