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Check Your City
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 Check to see if your city is available!
Only one City America website is built per city.
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Demo Site
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 See an example of what your site would look like when it is released to you.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Domain Name
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Who will own the domain name of my city directory?
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Can I choose my own domain?
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How do I market this business? Do I contact businesses in person? Do you suggest thru e-mail? Do you suggest auto responders?
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How much does it cost for me to own the domain name?
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Site Administration
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I do not know any HTML and am quite new to the Internet. Can I do this?
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Can I add more web pages so I can offer more content?
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Will I be able to work off line?
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How much space will the program take up on my computer?
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General Questions
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Am I limited to a certain number of advertiser's for my directory?
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If businesses can list their own company, will I have control over who lists their business in my directory?
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How long does it take to build my site after ordering?
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Will my directory be branded anywhere with your name?
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Can I own more than one city directory?
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Can I own a directory if my city is in Canada, England or Australia?
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How much do I charge for ad space?
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Do you have contracts that I can use with my customers, or do I have to come up with my own?
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What if my city is taken?
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Hosting
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What does my hosting plan include?
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What if I need more space or data transfer? Can I upgrade?
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Can I host the site on my own server?
Answers:
Q: Who will own the domain name of my city directory?
A: City America will purchase and retain ownership of the domain name, unless you prefer to purchase this yourself. We will also take care of basic hosting costs for you!
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Q: Can I choose my own domain?
A: Yes! You can choose from any available domain name. Effective 4-1-2007 you may no longer register or use a domain name that has the name of a "county" in it or the word "county" (unless your cities name is the same as the name of your county). You are grandfathered in and will not be required to change your domain name if you registered it prior to 4-1-2007 and it includes your county name.
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Q: How do I market this business? Do I contact businesses in person? Do you suggest thru e-mail? Do you suggest auto responders?
A: We offer a large variety of suggestions, marketing tools, etc on promoting your site in our Member's Area. You can also network with other CA members to learn from their success.
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Q: How much does it cost for me to own the domain name?
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Your domain name is included in your package at no additional charge. You are welcome to register it yourself. You can do that anywhere, you would just have to set the DNS #'s to point to our servers. Domain name cost between $8 & $15/yr.
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Q: I do not know any HTML and am quite new to the Internet. Can I do this?
A: With a little instruction any one can do this! With the NEW CityAmerica 2.0 WYSIWYG editor, you do not need to know any HTML to run these sites. It can be as easy as creating an email or using a word processing program on your computer.
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Q: Can I add more web pages so I can offer more content?
A: Absolutely! The website will be in your total control, you may feel free to add as many pages as you need and place additional links to those pages any place you wish. With CityAmerica 2.0, you can add pages "on the fly". Add as many as you want and the navigation links are generated for you...Automatically!
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Q: Will I be able to work off line?
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You will need to be online to do updates to your site. Everything is based on the server.
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Q: How much space will the program take up on my computer?
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This will not take any space on your computer. Nothing is loaded on your computer... It's all server based.
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Q: What does my hosting plan include?
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- 300 megs of disc space
- 6000 megs of data transfer
- Email forwarding
- Create up to 150 POP Email Accounts
- Cpanel
- Webalizer / Awstats (Visitor statistics software)
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Q: What if I need more space or data transfer? Can I upgrade?
A: Yes, additional disc storage and bandwidth can be purchased easily and affordably if needed.
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Q: Can I host the site on my own server?
A: The website must stay on our server. We use a quality, dedicated server designed specifically for our scripts. This ensures smooth performance and stability, and the website may not be moved, duplicated or reproduced in any way to any other server without our permission.
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Q: Am I limited to a certain number of advertiser's for my directory?
A: Your directory, coupons and classifieds sections will hold 1000's of listings! No need to worry about being limited!
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Q: If businesses can list their own company, will I have control over who lists their business in my directory?
A: Yes! Even though businesses can input their own company information, it will not be published to the website directory until after the administrator of the site (you) has approved it. This is the same for classified ads and just about any other visitor submitted content. You will maintain total control over submissions.
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Q: How long does it take to build my site after ordering?
A: Your site will be completed and released into your care 5 business days after we receive your order. Most of this waiting period is due to the typical 72 hour time from it will take for the nameservers on your new domain name to fully propagate. In most cases, you may have your site in less than 3 days.
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Q: Will my directory be branded anywhere with your name?
A: Very discretely, in the copyright section of your site, will be a "Powered by CityAmerica.com" statement. This may not be removed.
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Q: Can I own more than one city directory?
A: Yes! You can lease up to 3 cities initially. After you have shown that you can handle them, you may be approved for even more.
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Q: Can I own a directory if my city is in Canada, England or Australia?
A: Yes! We welcome any cities that use primarily English as their spoken language. However, our software is written for the US cities, so some features may not be available or compatible with your country. Please contact us for details.
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Q: How much do I charge for ad space?
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Ad space pricing can be anything you want.
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Q: Do you have contracts that I can use with my customers, or do I have to come up with my own?
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Since every site is individually owned and operated... Everyone has their own prices, terms etc. and they all make up their own forms. We do however have lots of samples on our Marketing Aids site.
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Q: What if my city is taken?
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We only allow one per city, you would have to sign up for another city.
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