DFW Living

I am not clear about the name of the site

But here is my concept: I’ve lived in Dallas for several years and I barely know my city very well. I’ve had friends that came out of state and I have the slightest clue what goes on or where I should take them. I hate to take them to malls because they tend to have the same things. I want to take them places where local music is at or something that randomly happens every year.

So, here are some features to the site:
Sign In
Comment
Rate the place
Calendar – shows events that are happening in the area.

Restaurant:
Search by price or genre

Attractions/Events: Concerts, Sports

Nightlife: I’m debating on if I wanted to put a section for clubs or something along those lines.

Entertainment: Something like Six Flags or Speed zone

Shopping: Places to shop, this one might be sketchy as far as what i want to display in here. I may or may not keep this section

Here are some of the areas of research I will be looking into to further flesh out the idea of my site
http://www.dallas.com/restaurants/
http://www.dallasdinesout.com/index.htm
http://dallas.citysearch.com/
http://www.toprestaurants.com/dallas.htm

Case Histories and Designers

There were some case histories that I’ve looked into. One of them that Mr. Batchelder had shown me was
http://www.happycog.com which is Zeldman’s site.

The first one I came into was http://www.possefoundation.org/
It seemed like a very good site in executing how to go about a non profit site gaining a good amount of visitors. It really goes out and changes people on going to school.

http://www.zappos.com/

This is such a well placed site for a cluttered type of enviroment. The presentation is clean and the hiearchy is well done.

Site Ideas:
So, I was really thinking of doing a personal assistant one. But I was told it was an application based. Maybe I could do a site…on something different. I just have no clue about it

I looked up a site and got some ideas, but I was totally not crazy about them
Wedding Planning
Entertainment like….rides, activities
Handy work

I have no idea what to really do, I need some ideas and suggestions if you have any. I haven’t fleshed out these ideas completely.