Status www.usafood2go.com

Hello, I believe that I have submitted www.usafood2go.com/to the following dmoz location
dmoz
again the submission location is about:
dmoz.com/Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Business_and_Economy/Restaurants_and_Bars/By_County

This site was submited around 2 months ago and then prior to that as well. I am not all that familiar with the steps necessary to bring www.usafood2go.com/ to fruition with dmoz;google;other search engines, but I was hoping for some devination. E.G. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Mark

Um, you deliver to a fairly small area, and Texas is a fairly large state...had you considered suggesting the site to a more geographically constrained category -- Plano, perhaps?

Justification

Hutcheson,
We greatly appreciate your direction on this growing concern of ours. One reason as to why we we decided to not list ourselves in a smaller, regional, category is because we are very quickly growing. We have been growing at a rate of about 50% per month consecutively for the past 4 months. At this continued rate we are likely to be in many more markets (Houston/El Paso) in the not so distant (Aug.-Sept.) future.
If we were to be listed in this "more localized" category, this may in fact prove as an inhibitor on our current growth. Futhermore, listing where we placed ourselfs initially may prove easier in the long run for you as our re-organization on DMOZ could become added work.
One cocomittant example, is just last month we have expanded and branched out the delivery area to parts of Dallas, and even Richardson. Please let us know what we can do to help. Thank you very much for your continued efforts on this matter.

Best regards,

Support

Submit to Plano, not the delivery area where you hope to grow. We list sites based on current reality not future hopes and dreams. When you open your other ten locations and expand , submit an update request, and we'll move the site to a broader area.

Being the case that we have already started expanding and we are currently already out of plano, is that still the same answer?

Your site says Plano - that's what an editor will look at if it gets reviewed this week. Of course if it gets reviewed six months from now and you have expanded, an editor might decide it goes somewhere else. Again - we go by what the sites is - not what it says it will be. An editor in the area might call you [without identyifing him/herself] to acertain what your delivery area is - to ensure it matches what the site says.

The change is expected to take place some time between December and January.

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But it hasn't and you only have a few days to go - so we will ignore that.

I give you some other advice - I hate Flash. I have a high speed DSL line - a few weeks ago I had to go back to dial up for a week. I could not review any Flash sites, it took too long.

Flash sites on dialup are impossible to deal with, as a web designer I tell customers not to use Flash for small businesses, it's only justified for big companies that really have to use it, and don't care about losing dial up customers.

A large number of editors are on dialup, and will not review Flash sites, they won't delete them, they just leave them for someone else.

I agree with the rat although as someone on dialup, I'm used to flash sites - some I do ignore if they haven't loaded in under 20 seconds. NB this just means the site waits for someone who is prepared to wait and endure the bandwidth (I am limited to 750M/month). Of course design is completely up to you, and I have seen some fast loading sites in Flash.

By the way if you do redesign in html, please declare the character set
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> or whatever you use.

Mine is set to UTF-8 as a default, and there are a lot of strange results on http://www.usafood2go.com/tgi.htm .

"FRIDAY?S? CLUB SANDWICH" rather than "FRIDAY’S® CLUB SANDWICH"
"a mix of saut饤 tomatoes" instead of "a mix of sautéed tomatoes"

no big deal, but it might help any consumers with non 'windows default' code settings.

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Where's the Flash?
Please tell me you didn't redesign your site based on the above comments (or take the flash down in favor of a different version).

It's just a link for cryin out loud!!

Oh boy I didn't see that

Friday's� Jack Daniel�s� sauce, chef�s vegetables and Friday's� Fries ==> looks like the chef has some doubts about the food

Da Ow
nope, comments are regarding

In an effort to better accommodate you, in the near future we will be revising the site entirely!
We are building in flash and will have several new restaurants added.
The change is expected to take place some time between December and January.

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I agree though, we do not expect sites to be tailored to our wants or needs. In fact I was reading somewhere the other day that broadband is about to reach critical mass in the US (the point where enough people have it to outweigh the loss of the users that don't, by pushing more info down the line in a reasonable time frame.)

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In fact I was reading somewhere the other day that broadband is about to reach critical mass in the US

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PC Magazine's Intro?

Australian mag? Actually I think online somewhere, but since I visit several forums, as well as general surfing and about 4 home pages of news, I couldn't tell you where.
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Okay... ALL of your help has been invaluable! We would prefer to change current submitted location. One last question we have is:

How do we change the location from Texas to Plano as the site has already been submitted?

Again Thank you all for your help, not only with design (ascii and flash), but also with listing.... Everyone here is so nice!!!

Worry not, editors are supposed to make these adjustments as required - no need to resubmit.

Editors, Thank you again for your added support... How do we go about defining how ascii characters are displayed? Gimmster mentioned, "<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">". We were under the impression that it was simply a symbol to ascii code change. However. now knowing that to change the ascii into a recognizable form, we must also adjust hte meta tag, we may require direction. Thank you in advance.