CityFactNow.com
 

Hello Everyone,

At exactly Midnight, (Eastern USA time), December 31st, 2008, I'll be turning my site on.

CityFactNow.com has ten forums for each of 30 initial US Cities. I've tried to cover the most obvious areas of interest for those who may be visiting or moving to any of the cities I've listed so far.

I have a list of more than 250 more cities to add to the site, but that will take a lot of time.

My goal is to add 5 new cities each week.

After midnight tonight, please check it out and I hope you all enjoy it.

I'm having web pages designed for the site but they aren't complete yet. I've placed a redirect to the forums from the root domain for now.

Wish me luck!

CFN-1

Looks pretty stock and I would find a way to organize things better as it already is a long list. Maybe have it that guests only see one section of each forum and when the person registers they select their city and can only see that cities section, would help greatly with the look and organization. Or else I would look into the forum home tabs and give each city its own tab! Otherwise find a good theme! Good idea overall though and good luck!!

Yikes. That is a long list of forums.
I'd make use of subforums. I got bored scrolling down. :)

I don't necessarily think anything is wrong with using the default skin, but there are other boards with a similar topic that you will compete with.

Good luck.

Thanks Xhaiden and 1996 328ti, yes, the length of the list of cities bothers me as well.

I'm having a web page designed that will list and link each city in a more compact manner. I've arranged them alphabetically with the expectation of someone using their noggin to just fast forward to the city they wish to review. It is, after all, a place to look for a specific city and it's information.

I'd like to find a template that has a set of tabs that I could use for the alphabet. When "L" is clicked on, the list would take you right to the "L's".

I've also thought of grouping them by category, with the category being the Letter of the alphabet. That would make a nice short list.

I would check into the mod here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=tabbed

Might be something up your alley for what you want!!

Thanks Xhaiden! I'll check it out.

I've changed the initial menu to a Alphabetical "A-Z" type listing.

That shortened the list considerably until I can find a better format.

Perhaps the Mod you suggest will work for me.

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Well, after letting it sit for awhile and re-examining the initial menu, I've decided that it's actually better the way it was. The bots will find the city names instead of a list of A-Z junk. I'll continue to look for a better method, but for now, the alphabetical listing will have to work.

Mate lol, thats MAD !

Too many forums dude.

Why not create a Jump Menu. Using hotspot map.

Surely that would be more appealing and get people to the forum (city ) they want to, Quickly.

Similar to this, but perhaps a tad more stylish than ours

http://www.yobromofo.com/index.php?pageid=events

Not *too many*, just *many!*

After years of seeing one forum here, one forum there and another over there, all using different formats, I thought to myself, "myself, why not make one place with ALL of them in one place using the same identical format in each one?"

myself answered "Damn man, that's a great idea!"

So I did it.

There really is only 10 forums. 10 for each city. It's intended for those who are moving to or visiting a new city, so why would anyone want to look at Orlando, Florida information if they're visiting or moving to Anaheim, California? They'd just go directly to the Anaheim forum and look about.

It'll build. Give it time.

I'm going to see how the next month works and then prolly install vBSEO and see how it works for me.

I like your idea with the hot spot map.

I'm going to create a state by state directory in a week or so. Later, when I incorporate an HTML page to the forums, I'll setup the hot spot map.

Thanks for the idea, mate!

way too many forums... I left the site after about 6 seconds.

There are many hotspot maps online.

Also some cracking accordion scripts that would work great with your concept.

I am currently creating a ajaxified search auto completer for another site. This could work very well within other forum elements too.

Example;
In js for ajax auto-complete, you could have state | City | postcode.

Then when a user types in a search, this could jump them to specific forum.

May be a tad ambitious for USA as its so bloody big, but major cities, of which USA has 52 Capital cities etc could work seemlessly.

Accordion Menu could work the same, and reveal 10 easy to read cities by state, and then onclick, would expand to display forum information as "it does now" but just for that forum.

We use a cracking little script on one of our other sites which uses a simple accordian.
at www.air-conditioning.com.au

Give it a once over. It may work for you.

Ste

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added:

http://www.air-conditioning.com.au/install.php

Scroll to bottom. Its a fully distributeable script, and free. Let me know.

Ste