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by jcr 4349 days ago
Also, you might want to edit your post. You have:

http://1milejobs:8080

rather than:

http://1milejobs.com:8080

The first thing I noticed was the use of "mile" in your domain and company name. Using "mile" is problematic since most of the world is on the metric system. I fired up a thesaurus to augment the tiny amount of imagination I have for this kind of thing, but the best suggestions I came up with that weren't already registered were:

No match for "NEIGHBORINGJOBS.COM"

No match for "CLOSEBYJOBS.COM"

Sadly, tons of domains with "jobs" in it are already taken.

Your faq says you've tested with recent browsers, but you need to put some effort into maintaining support for older browsers (yes, I know it's a pain, but such is web development). The following screen shot was done on Firefox 18:

http://www.designtools.org/pix/1milejobs_app.png

It looks a better in chromium 24:

http://www.designtools.org/pix/1milejobs_app_chrome.png

In Chromium, when loading over a slow-ish Internet connection, there's a flash of a set of icons with titles, but they disappear behind the above. I don't want to poke at it, but I'd bet if I toggled visibility, I might find something that you don't want accessible.

For your initial app display, I'd use geo-location to get the general location of the visitor, and display a few listings from that area, even a wider area than one mile if need be.

It's an interesting concept. Good Luck!

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Thanks jcr for the comments. 1 mile is the goal. Not the starting point. I have not restricted the distance from the beginning until I get critical mass.

I agree, it's really a pain to maintain older browsers.