Visit Jdate.com

JDate.com – An Online Jewish Dating Community

When arriving at JDate.com, you will find four different couples, with pictures and stories flashing. Below, you will see that this is an online community for Jewish people to meet and to date other Jewish people online. The first thing they want to know when you decide to join, is the sex that you are, and what you are looking for, male or female. From here, they will ask what relationship type you are looking for and what your current relationship status is. From there, you will select religious preferences, such as how often you keep kosher and how often you go to the synagogue.

Once you successfully arrive on the homepage of JDate.com, you can do many things. The first thing they would like you to do is fill in your personal information and finish your profile. However, you can opt out and search the site if you would rather. On the home page, you will see your matches, and if you have filled out a profile, they will match you based on where you live. Below the picture of a match, is their color based on the personality test you can take on the site, and the best way to communicate with that type of person, this person for example, is a yellow. If they have more photos, you can view them, and details about them. If you wish to email or contact them, you will need to of course, upgrade your membership.

Under the view matches tab, you can view your potential matches, all of which may live in or near your area. There are 17 in my area alone. You can put in your preferences so you will only find matches that meet your requirements also, which is a nice touch. You can send flirts to people you choose for your matches or that you are interested in. You are given 30 total that you can use.

The next tab over is the search tab. Here you can do a quick search for the sex you are seeking, age range you would like, and how far they can be from where you live. You can also do a keyword search, check out the photo gallery or look up a member if you are interested in them. The next tab, is the hot lists tab. You can find out who is checking you out, refresh your memory on who you are checking out, do we click; which is a way for you to say yes on someone’s profile, if they say yes back, then you click, custom lists where you can name your hot lists and put people on them, and matches by mail where the site will send you messages from people who are compatible with you.

If you click on community, you can see who is online, male or female, and you can message whoever you would like to message. There are lots of people to look through and you can choose to only look through profiles with pictures, certain genders, or age groups, for your convenience. The next tab contains your profile, here you can update many things including the basics, your lifestyle, interest, relationship, color code, and photos. Under your basic info, you can add your physical attributes, and change some of the details you put in at the beginning. Under personality and interests, you can add what your favorite activities, pets, foods, and music are. Under the relationship tab, you can add details about your ideal relationship, your past relationships, what you are looking for, what your perfect first date would be like, and what your ideal match would be in regards to age, relationship status, religion, education level, and drinking or smoking habits. You can use the color code test to find out your personality type and add photos to your profile as well.

If you click on the JDateTV tab, you will find a place for different weeks that you have been on the site and helpful videos for what people might be looking for and appreciate in you or what you need to know before you start talking to people on the site. The subscription button is basically the upgrade option found on all dating sites, here you can choose how long you want to sign up. The monthly fee per month goes down based on how long you choose to stay on the site. JDate.com is a dating community for the Jewish that has a lot of different options available to those looking for a date.

Visit JewishMingle.com

JewishMingle.com – An Online Matchmaking Service for Jewish Singles

JewishMingle.com is an online dating service targeted toward the Jewish demographic. When first visiting the site, you will see a man and woman smiling, success stories, and an online sign in. After deciding to sign up, it will ask you if you are a man seeking a woman, or woman seeking a man, these are the only options to choose from. Being straight is not an option for this online dating service.

Next JewishMingle.com wants to know your height, body type, eye and hair color, religion which is basically just the type of Jewish faith you practice such as orthodox, conservadox, reform, secular, traditional, etc. It then asks your education and occupation. When you choose your username and password, your password is not hidden, so be sure that no one is around that you don’t want in your account when signing up. The advantage to this however, is that you don’t need to confirm your password.

When you sign in for the first time on JewishMingle.com, you will find that they leave you a to do list of items, browsing, or you can choose to go to your home page. I chose the homepage, as I am only reviewing the site, but there were several interesting options to choose from. On your homepage, you will find your profile activity on the left side of the screen. Here you can view who has emailed or smiled at you, sent you a card or spark, instant messaged, viewed, or added you to their favorites. Under this is your sent emails, smiles, cards, sparks, instant messages, profiles viewed, and favorites of your own.

If you want to update your profile, you can do so just underneath this, under the section appropriately named update profile. Here you can add photos of yourself, finish your profile with details, write essays, match preferences with others, and color code your profile. If you have friends, they are listed just below this, with a button for adding and removing them as you see fit.

If you click on match preferences, located in the middle of your homepage, you will be directed to a page on the dating service where you can choose the body type, education, relationship, status, religion, religious activity, kosher, smoker, or drinker options so you can find appropriate matches that will work well for you and your lifestyle. You can even choose the age range you would like to date, the location or how far they can live from where you are, and there heights. You can also choose to have emails sent to you when new matches are found and show the preferences on your profile for when others view it.

On the top of your home page, there are tabs for Home, Connect, Search, and My Profile, each takes you someplace new. Above this is a place that welcomes you with your name, upgrades your account, shows the details of your account, can help with questions, or you can log out when you are finished. This is located in the top right of www.JewishMingle.com’s page.

Of course clicking the home page won’t do anything else while you are on it, so clicking to my right, on connect, I found that there is a place for my inbox, chat, instant messenger, and message boards. New to the site, you will find no new messages, not even a welcome message accustomed by many other dating service sites. The chat that is located just below this encourages you to enter the chat room, and lets you know how many people are online. Of course, when you click this, it will take you to a screen where you can upgrade your standard membership for a monthly fee, the lowest fee per month for the most months, of course.

The instant messenger is located just below this, however; just like the chat, you have to buy a membership upgrade in order to use it. You can view your history. This differs from chat as within a chat room, you have a public conversation, where the IM is one on one. You can set your settings once you upgrade however, which allows you to choose some different items for your instant messenger.

If you decide that you are feeling a little curious, you can use the search button to do a search on the dating service. Some options include a quick or advanced search, who’s online, recent matches, photo gallery, photo shuffle, stand out profiles, and a username search. There are also a couple unique ones that I have not found elsewhere, the Think You’d Click search and the Question of the Week search. The Think You’d Click option allows you to vote for users with photos. You can choose yes maybe or no for their pictures. The Question of the Week for this week is: What world event in your lifetime do you feel has had the most impact on you? Here, you can comment on the question, and have a discussion with other members. This is a unique feature to JewishMingle.com that I have not found on every dating site.

The last tab is the my profile tab, here you can see an overview of your profile. You can also put in more basic information, fill in the about me section, add fun facts, match preferences, essays, color codes, photos, and comment on the question of the week. The color codes was something that wasn’t clear, so I clicked on it. There are different colors for different personality types and here you can take the profile  questionnaire. For each question there are six groups of answers, they call them questions one through six, but really you choose one word to describe yourself from each, and then move on to the next section. This test takes approximately 15 minutes and deals mainly with you as a youth, yet it is a very unique test not found on many other dating services. www.JewishMingle.com is for those of Jewish decent and faith and is a place to meet singles looking for a date.

Visit ChristianCafe.com

Christiancafe.com – Christian Matchmaking Service

The opening page of the christiancafe.com page is a very warm and inviting page.  The sign in for new members is free for 10 days, at which time, I am guess you will need to buy a membership.  There is a membership page is where you enter your personal information.

After doing so, you will be brought to a page with  a questionnaire about your beliefs in God, the denomination you prefer, church involvement, your mood, your organizational habits, sense of humor, favorite type of music, your form of transportation, and where you like to travel. Other questions include what personality type you have, your quirks or habits, fashion sense, how people would describe you, your intellect, favorite reading type, relationship type and if you are willing to relocate.

After completing the questionnaire, there is a section to fill in some things about yourself, your personality, past relationships, here you can write anything you want about any of it and it is saved as part of your information. Once you complete this you get a membership login and password, they are fairly similar in nature.

Once you enter, there is a menu of items that you can choose from. Along with it, there is a who’s viewed me, who’s online, and who’s new link for each that you can click on. As well, there is a Today’s Birthday tab so you can wish others on the site a happy birthday if you wish. They also have a Café Blog and an iphone app that you can add if you own an iphone. Within the icons, there is a new mail tab, and you know if you have new mail because it blinks repeatedly unless you decide to click on it. When you do so, it will inform you that you must confirm your email address before reading it, it is a welcome message. I know because I confirmed my email.

The other tabs on the page include the main page, which you are on when you enter the site. The who’s on tab, which shows users pictures, their gender, age, the type of relationship they seek, the location where they are, the region where they are, the café venue and viewed tabs, and instant messaging tab, so you can send instant messages to those who are set up for it and want to receive them.

If you choose the quick match tab, you can see profiles of those close to you in age, location and Christian faith of the opposite sex. It states what type of relationship they are looking for so you can decide if they are right for you. If you are looking for someone in particular, searching by username, new members, who’s online, or for birthdays, you can do so under the search tab.

If you want to update your profile, there is a profile page, as well as a page where you can post a new photo. The profile page lets you add personal information about yourself. At this point, you can also change your password to something a little more discreet. If you deem it necessary, you may change the answers you put in at the beginning during the questionnaire.

If you want to chat, there is a tab for that as well, all tabs stay at the top, no matter which page you go to for ultimate convenience. When you choose to enter the chat room it will let you know that  inappropriate or foul language or suggestive chat is not appropriate and will not be tolerated. Discussions should be on political, biblical, or theological discussions, as it is a Christian matchmaking site. However, to use this service you do have to have an upgraded membership, this is so they can avoid abuse of the chat room.

Next, to these are favorites and membership tabs. The favorites tab allows you to save your favorite photos of online and offline people. The membership tab allows you to upgrade or change your membership so that you can have access to the full site. Therefore, if you intend to do a 10 day trial, you will want to upgrade soon after.

The next tab is the prayers tab where you can read through, or even enter your own prayers so that others can read them. Under that is tips, tips is for how to use the site, how to improve your profile, things of that nature. Under links, you will find links to different sites so that you can check out other Christian or family type sites.  Christiancafe.com holds a strong moral and ethic code to their followers and expects those online to be respectful.

Visit Christian Cupid.com

ChristianCupid.com – Christian Matchmaking Site

Christiancupid.com is an online dating service in which married or single people can meet, to be friends, or form relationships beyond friendship. When you sign up, it is free, however;  you must answer a questionnaire about your ethnicity, body type, children, religion and a few other items, as well as what you want in another person with all of these same things, including how far they can live from where you are.

When you finish filling this out you will be logged onto the main menu of the website. The top of the page has the home, help, and logout tabs. To the left, in a lovely lavender, is a standard search, or advanced search of which you can use to try and locate the perfect mate or friend online.

In the center of the page of the Christiancupid.com webpage, you will find my profile in green, this has all the links to change things on your profile which include, view, update, add/update match info, add/update personality info, add/manage photos and add video links, which you can use to customize your profile, you can also add a picture.

Just below this in a gorgeous pin is your mailbox, which will display the number of messages, new, in your inbox, or sent messages. You can also contact members using the who’s online, chat, or who’s new links. The who’s online will show you indeed who is online at that particular time. You then can select a region and age group and see if anyone in that particular set of rules is online. The chat cannot be accessed until you buy a membership, like many other dating sites. The last of these is the who’s new link, in which you can see new members of interest.

To the right of this in a tan color, there is a list called lists, under which you can find your way  around Christiancupid.com. The listings under this include favorites, I’m their favorite, my matches, my interest list, who’s interested, block list, missed IM’s, online friends list, who’s online, who’s new, video gallery, latest photos, most popular, and viewed my profile. Underneath of this, you can check your membership status, switch memberships, change your account settings or password if you like. There is also a Christian advice blog, travel information, time zones, women’s safety, and a Cool! send flowers to your lady tab. The cool! wasn’t me, that is how it actually is on the dating site. You can also bookmark the site if you wish to do so for easy reference.

Back to the lists, favorites is the first item up for review, the favorites is not what I thought, where you can list your favorites, it is where other people can add you as a favorite to their list. When you click on it, you can add a photo if you have not already done so, which will get you added as a favorite much quicker. You can also upgrade your membership, which is suppose to add to your popularity on the site.

Blocked list, this is pretty straight forward, these are people you have blocked because for whatever reason they annoy you or you no longer want to talk to them, so they go on your blocked list. The missed IM’s tab is also straight forward, if you miss any instant messages because you leave the page or go offline, you can read them when you get back on.

The online friends list allows you to save people as your friends here so that you can find and speak to them later. Who’s online, and who’s new, let you know who is online at the current time, and who is new to christiancupid.com. The video gallery allows you to look through videos that have been posted on the site. The latest photos allow you to see the latest photos that have been uploaded by members of the site other than yourself. Most popular gives you the list of the most popular people on the site who are liked by others. Lastly viewed my profile, gives you a list of those who have viewed your profile, so you can see what potential matches you may have.

This site is set up with a very basic and easy to use format, with easy to use tabs and common sense names. This is a great site for anyone of age that is looking for someone new in their lives. Christiancupid.com has something for just about everyone from friendship, to relationships.

Visit ChristianMingle.com

ChristianMingle.com – Christian Matchmaking Service

ChristianMingle.com is a site designed specifically for Christian singles, to create a non judgemental atmosphere for those who wish to find love, romance and friendship within a Christian only environment, where faith and religion are readily accepted.

The site has a professional aesthetic with a simple yet sophisticated layout. The site itself is easy to navigate with clearly labelled links, and a tasteful use of images and text. The main image on the welcome page is of a happy couple which gives the impression the site is serious about trying to find all singles happiness. There is also a Christian faith statement at the bottom of the page for all members to read before joining up.

Before joining the site there are a number of success stories you are able to browse through which gives you an idea of what the site can really do in regards to matches really working as the stories have been input by previous members of the site.

There are two different membership types available on the site, standard and premium. It is initially free to join the site as a standard member but you are able to upgrade your membership at any time if you wish to do so. It is free to join first due to you getting a taste of what the site has to offer and the different features available before becoming a full on member. You are able to purchase the premium membership in a bulk of 3 or 6 months, but for ultimate flexibility you are able to purchase it on a month by month basis. Some features are limited with standard membership in particular the communication methods available as you must be a paying member to send messages to other members.

Registration is a quick and simple process and only requires basic information regarding appearance and lifestyle, yet goes into more detail when it comes to the religion based questions. You must input basic details such as your name, location, birth date, and email address, as well as creating a user name and password for yourself which you must use when entering the site in the future.

The appearance related questions consist of height, body type, eye colour and hair colour.
There is a progress bar at the top of the screen which allows you to see how far along the process is and how much more is to be completed before your profile has been created.

The questions have been set out individually so there isn’t a massive list of questions for you to look at. It makes the process seem a lot quicker.

Once the registration has been completed, you are then able to input more information into your profile, upload a photograph or start searching through the members available on the site.

You can start searching members on the site, by using the different search options that have been made available. There is a quick search which is a basic search option which only consists of the gender of member you are looking for and between what age range. There is also an advanced option which allows you to go into much more specific detail about the type of match you are looking to meet, including location, lifestyle and appearance.

Once the search query has loaded, the list of members that match the criteria will appear in a list with their username, basic information, description of themselves and a photo if they have one. You are able to click on the member’s profile, which allows you to look at more photos or read more about them. If you are a standard member you are only able to send smiles to the member showing your interest in them, whereas if you have upgraded your membership to premium, you are able to communicate via message or an instant messaging service.

Other features available with the site are question of the week which allows you to express your opinion on different topics that change every week. Also there is an instant messaging service, chat rooms, readiness IQ, fun fact section, dating safety tips and articles and a lot more.

ChristianMingle.com allows Christian singles from all over the world come together in a friendly relaxed non judgemental environment to find their perfect match whether it be for love, or friendship.