Established cssCatwalk - Sites with Style - Beautiful Web Gallery.

[Gareth]

What is cssCatwalk?
cssCatwalk is one of the best looking web galleries out there.

“Designers crave inspiration and webmasters search for ideas. We feature the most beautiful, innovative websites on the Internet.”

The site is relatively new (about five months of activity), with very little promotion. With a little effort, this site could become huge. I’d love to focus on this site as I know it could become massive, but, unfortunately, I need to put money into a web hosting company that I run. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone with the effort and time required to fill this site’s potential.

How the Site Works
The site is run on the latest version of Wordpress combined with a lot of plugins that have all been setup, implemented and configured. The buyer will recieve a complete guid on how to update te site (as easy as making a new post in Wordpress).

The list of plugins installed are as follows;

• Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
• Contact Form 7 - a contact form used for both the contact page and the submit page.
• Display Comments Statistics - this displays how many sites have been featured and how many comments posted.
• FeedBurner FeedSmith - this simply reverts all feed subscribers to FeedBurner.
• MaxBlogPress Favicon - making sure that the favicon is recognised.
• New Tag Cloud - a lovely plugin that creates a tag cloud at the bottom of the site. More popular tags are bigger, less popular tags smaller.
• Random Posts - this plugin displays a random post at the top of every page.
• Top Commentators - the people who post the most comments are rewarded with a link back to their site at the bottom of each page.
• Target Blank In Posts And Comments - making sure that all links open in a new window - thus retaining visitors.
• Themed Login and Register - the register and login pages are integrated with the design.
• wp-cache - a very fast caching system.
• WP-PageNavi - a page navigation system.

All links on the site are mod_rewrited and SEO friendly. Everything is in place and ready to go.

Expense of Creating the Site
Design + Domain - $450
Coding + Integration - $250
Total Expense: $700

Artwork
Along with all of the sites source files, all PSD's and full rights. The buyer will recieve the fllowing graphics;

• Fully unique, stunning, resizable logo (formats: PDF, eps, as, PSD).
• Advertising banners: 125x125, 468x60.

Revenue Details
Revenue has been kept quite low due to the site or advertising opportunities not being advertised a great deal, the only income is as follows;

• Text link sales: $143
• Banner Sales: $27
• Total Income: $170

Revenue could obviously be hugely improved with more visitors and other methods of monetization.

Traffic Details

With no promotion, the site has seen the following traffic figures;

Monthly Traffic Details

• Month: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-month.png
• January: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-january.png
• February: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-february.png
• March: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-march.png
• April: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-april.png
• May: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-may.png
• June: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-june.png

Traffic Sources

• Search Engine Referrals: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-search-2008.png
• Keywords: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-keywords.png
• Referring Sites: http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/stats-referring-sites.png

Bidding
- Starting Bid: $100
- BIN Price: $1500

Payment via PayPal.

Thanks,
Gareth

 

[sam.]

How long do the ads have remaining in their terms, and how long were they for? Thanks

 

[Gareth]

How long do the ads have remaining in their terms, and how long were they for? Thanks

TEXT LINKS:
crazymik3.com - 23rd January 2008 - 23rd January 2009
holdfire.net - 8th March 08 - 8th March 09
yearnames.com - 14th Jan 08 - 14th Jan 09

BANNER ADVERTISING:
markup4u.com - 8th May 08 - 8th August 08

I'd greatly appreciated it if the buyer kept the top banner ad up for the rest of the term. The text links can be removed at the new owners discression due to the very long term, and I will foot the cost of refunding the advertisers.

 

[ryo128]

Nice site. $200 from me.

When is the ending date?

 

[Gareth]

Nice site. $200 from me.

When is the ending date?

Thank you.

I'm making it June 30th, unless the BIN price is met before that.

 

[Gareth]

Current highest bid: $390
BIN: $1200

I'd recommend bidding at SitePoint where the auction is taking place.
- http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/37523

 

[Gareth]

Current highest bid: $500

I've prepared a HTML file explaining how to update the site, you may view it here:
- http://www.csscatwalk.com/sale/how-to/

 

[Gareth]

Current highest bid: $560
BIN: $900

I'd recommend bidding at SitePoint where the auction is taking place.
- http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/37523

 

[Gareth]

BIN has been reduced to a crazy $750!
- http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/37523

Current highest bid: $560

 

[Gareth]

Just to let you all know, the site has been sold