AUTOsurf Every Franchise’s Categories

I am happy to say that the AUTOsurf feature on the Every Franchise site has finally been repaired.

I think this feature is quite unique. It’s purpose is two-fold:The first one is to allow surfers who are interested in a particular category in the database, to watch something like a slideshow of all the companies’ web site home pages.

There is no need to click your way through every listing, instead just watch the pages scroll by and when you see something that interests you, click the icon which will open that site in a new window. The slide show displays the web sites within that category randomly.

The purpose of being random is so that if you stop the slide show for any reason and then restart it again later, you don’t have to sit through the same sequence that you watched before.

Right from the outset I wanted to keep Every Franchise lean, fast and minimalist in design. That is why it is light on graphics. I am aware though that a company’s logo next to its listing helps people find the business they are looking for. The AUTOsurf feature makes up for the lack of company logos and in fact takes the process one step further. Finding a franchise or business opportunity is easier and more pleasurable than ever. You can even read a book, on how to start a business perhaps, while keeping one eye on the AUTOsurf window.

As an Administrator, this feature is a boon. The site’s ‘back end’ is able to find dead links and remove them fairly easily, but it is not able to tell if a once active domain has been ‘parked’.

Similarly, domain names are often sold and the new owner’s business may be completely different to previous owner.

The most humourous example of this was with pickupsplus.com. It used to be about pickups, but now it is a site about how to pick up girls!

The Every Franchise site was hacked into sometime around the beginning of this year. It took weeks to sort out the mess and the AUTOsurf feature was the last and hardest thing to fix. It certainly feels good to have it running again.I hope you make full use of the feature and that it can save you time and clicks.

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