[Desperado]

Well, I'm thinking of making a Local city guide website for my town Port Said in Egypt, featuring events, restaurants and cafes, movie showtimes and more.
I need some advice from people who have experience of such sites, advice on the content, marketing and stuff.

[designed 4U]

Dear Desperado,

We do have that experience. Two years ago we designed a website for Suriname, the same you want to build for your city. We also maintained it the past 2 years.

Feel free to contact us and together we can find you the perfect solution.

[pentupentropy]

If you're still reading your messages, Mambo Open Source is the perfect solution for your website. If you're unfamiliar with how it works, I or someone like me can get it up and running for you in a day - without all the custom graphics you will want to ad. It'd be a couple more days for that. If I did it, I would charge you about $300.00 USD. The setting up of the site is easy, the graphics are what will take the longest. It would ocst more if you bought some online but may be worth it to get some professional stock photos.

You will need:

-Hosting account with cPanel
-Mambo Open Source installed
-phpAdsNew (ad server)
-Modules installed for mambo:
-Calendar
-OSCommerce (maybe)
-Forums
-Image Gallery (I'd go with Zoom Image Gallery)
-Google Maps/Yahoo Maps or open maps

possibly a few other components/mambots/modules

One other thing you might add, if I may... I find it extremely handy to add the "glossary" mambot/module to websites. It helps make it a little more sticky for people who may not be familiar with all the terms, especially ones regionally specific to your area. You can add terms to the glossary and make it highlight those terms so people can click on it and get more information. You can also add ads to these, but that can be cheesy if you don't do it right.