LOL
So many forum category :(

10 forums is too many for you? How odd.

If you were there to actually look for information, you wouldn't be browsing but one category.

There are only 10 forums in a single category.

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Thanks Ste, I see that I do have to reduce the size of the initial category menu. Even if I use states, it would be the 50 states and 1 district. 51 is even longer than what I have so far.

I think a hotspot map would work the best. I've got my web page designer working on it.

As long as I'm using the vBulletin as the initial menu, this will be a problem. Going to an HTML page with the hotspot map is the best idea I've heard so far.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

CFN-1

I did exactly the same - there's a term called information overload;

It's seriously too many forums!!

I understand that you've used perhaps 5 minutes to form this evaluation without taking into consideration that there are actually only 10 forums that would matter to any person who is really looking for information about a particular city.

The list is too long to be comfortably viewed, even though it is alphabetically arranged in a manner that most school aged children would understand immediately.

As for the "Information overload", I'm sorry, but that's nonsense.

A neat way of accomplishing this could be utilising GoogleMaps and Custom Flags , hyperlinked to each forum/state/city

We use a system on one of our MIT sites, using Exhibit from MIT

http://www.visatimeline.com/my-visa-.../mapexpat.html

You asked for opinions, we gave you them and you question and defend your site.

You may have 10 forum categories, but you have over 100 sections to your forum that all display on the front page. This is overkill and it's plain and simple, others agree as well, so rather then questioning the feedback that you have been given, take it and make some changes.

The easiest thing I can see to do is make the categories all sub forums rather then forums.

Wow that's a lot of forums...... :down:

And nothing for Ohio!!!! :mad:

Quite an attitude you have there.

You should learn to chill out.

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Yes, the list of categories is long. I'm working on that.

Ohio will be covered soon, Ben. The list is from Forbes. It's the 30 most visited cities in the USA in 2007.

Ohio wasn't on the list. Sorry man. The remainder of the cities will be added in order of population.

Columbus, Ohio will enter as a category with it's own 10 forums for it's population of 747,755 and persons per/sq mi of 3,383 as soon as I arrive at that point of the list.

Here's something that will just scare the hell out of all the nay-sayers; there will be 300 categories when I've entered all of the cities. That will make THREE THOUSAND FORUMS.

Kind of freaks you out, doesn't it?

The site is 4 days old. Come back and review it again in a year.

city data does the whole US in less then 60 forums, and a short list....kinda...might want to take some cues from there...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/

That's a great idea, TFA, thanks!

I hit your site while you were working on it, evidently. I couldn't get it to load. I'll try again later.