{"id":2069,"date":"2007-09-13T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/13\/niagara-frontier-info\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:44:16","slug":"niagara-frontier-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/niagara-frontier-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Frontier Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/niagara_frontier_info_logo.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"niagara_frontier_info_logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many great sites out there with information on Niagara Falls. There are many well-known sites that don&#8217;t have very good information (but are marketed well) and sites that aren&#8217;t so well known but have great information. One site that I think is particularly good is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1007\">Niagara Frontier Info<\/a> (not to be mistaken with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1008\">Thunder Alley<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, the site isn&#8217;t fancy looking, but it is a great resource (and not just because they link to me). Starting on the main page, you can see the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click on the Attractions link and find a listing of over 50+ places to visit in the area (both Canadian and American)<\/li>\n<li>On that same Attractions page is information about Marineland, Darien Lake, and Fantasy Island<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Events link and you&#8217;ll see a good listing of events in the area in September<\/li>\n<li>There is also a forum. No one has posted anything yet, but it&#8217;s there and I&#8217;m sure Philip, the owner will respond<\/li>\n<li>Click on the History link and you&#8217;ll read some information on Erie County and Buffalo (nothing for the Canadian side)<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the most intriguing idea is the Trip Planner. If you fill out a short form and let Philip know how much many you have to spend and what season you are coming, he will give you ideas on what you can do<\/li>\n<li>There is also a newsletter. I just signed up for it, so I&#8217;m not sure what the content will be like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are two main problems with the site.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main page doesn&#8217;t display properly in Mozilla Firefox. I couldn&#8217;t scroll down, so I couldn&#8217;t follow the links at the bottom (I had to use Internet Explorer). I&#8217;m sure this will get fixed.<\/li>\n<li>The look of the site is pretty boring. I&#8217;d rather have good content than a nice design, but the look needs to be improved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with any site like this (an independent site, not for profit), I&#8217;m sure Philip would love feedback (there is a survey), ideas, suggestions, and help. Overall, I guess I&#8217;m kind of fed up with sites like InfoNiagara and others that look pretty but haven&#8217;t updated their content in ages. Companies pay to be listed and then have the standard marketing garbage posted. They are ranked well in the search engines but don&#8217;t really provide anything worthwhile to the visitors. I&#8217;ve struggled with my own site, and it helps to have a community of people there to encourage you. It&#8217;s nice to see someone else trying to reach out and help promote the area in a positive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many great sites out there with information on Niagara Falls. There are many well-known sites that don&#8217;t have very good information (but are marketed well) and sites that aren&#8217;t so well known but have great information. One site that I think is particularly good is Niagara Frontier Info (not to be mistaken with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}