Leicester, United Kingdom (PressExposure) August 08, 2010 -- CityLocal have launched a brand new website in the UK. Their aim was to deliver a premium website that stands out from the crowd, displays more local content and reduces their franchisees workload at the same time.
Before, franchisees had to update their own site daily. Now, there is a whole host of local information on all their local sites updated automatically by HQ. This includes cinema, events, news, cars, jobs, photos, hotels and a whole lot more. No longer do their franchisees have to spend the first hour every day updating their local site and instead they can focus all their time and efforts on getting new customers.
There is now a full weather page displaying a summary of the weather for the next 5 days and also for the next 24 hours in 4 hour time steps on each local site. The weather is also a lot more detailed than before.
The CityLocal website has now moved over to the new widescreen format. 5 years ago most users had standard screens. Now over 90% of users have a widescreen. The exact width of the new site was arrived at after careful analysis of the sites that Google is favoring, standard screen sizes of most users and the browsers they use.
If you were interested in the CityLocal Franchise before, you got to have a look at their new website now! Visit http://www.citylocal.co.uk/businessfranchise/ if you would like to manage a CityLocal territory. As an example of one of their local portals, visit CityLocal Oxford - http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Oxford - to see how detailed the local information provided is.