Think of a name....

Good evening folks.

I need your help

I'm making a website about my area. If I summarised my plan, it would sound like yet another boring directory, but its not that at all.

The thing is, I can't think of a name. I've never been good at thinking of names, so I need your creative genius

The geographic area I want to focus on is the range of towns and villages just south of the Tees, inside that flatland 'basin' that the ice age left. That includes the towns of Redcar, Marske, New Marske, Saltburn and Eston.

I only want to restrict it just because if you try to cover everywhere at once, you end up with such sparse coverage that the whole thing becomes useless. If its a success, I want to expand it outwards.

Any thoughts at all?

 

You'd better call it the Marske Triangle, Clueless.
ICI seems to have disappeared into the ether.

Develop your own legends as you go along - and good luck

 

MarskeTriangle, sounds cool.

ICI got broken up and sold off years ago. The sites are still here at Wilton and Billingham, but are now owned by Sembcorp, who in turn lease out plots to a range of petrochemical companies.

 

Yes. I know.
Being an East Riding guy I remember the uproar when the Government invented Cleveland and ejected Middlesbrough and parts South from God's County.
Don't worry Clueless. Real Yorkshire folk still think of your area as part of the Home County

 

I was born in Yorkshire. I was born here. Redcar and Middlesbrough were still Yorkshire until I was about 4 or 5 I think.

 

great idea clueless about a website covering your area. I think this decision about the name for such website is best left at the judgement of the locals which may see meanings that we cannot grasp if we are not local to the area. but well done and best of luck!

 

Great idea Clueless....i'm still thinking of a name though...don't forget 'i'm stong in arm an thick int 'ed...i could be gone for some time

 

Don't forget the historical aspect.
Smuggling was rife around the region. If you advertise the name before registering it, one of your neighbours might nick it (Smugglers Cove Antics)

 

I too was born up there and still have a lot of family up there so would be interested in your website when you get it going. Will have a think about names for you

 

I discovered tonight that someone has had a similar idea, but not quite as original as mine, for Saltburn, so we can take saltburn out of the equation for now, leaving mostly Redcar and its smaller neighbours to focus on.

I'm not sure I want to tie the name to the area, because that would make it harder to expand outwards if/when it becomes successful.

I was thinking about words that mean something like, one collective entity, like everything we do affects everyone else, like everything is connected and influences each other.

Except anything with more than about 3 syllables is doomed to fail. Think about massive names like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Bebo, MSN. Almost all 2 syllables, 3 max.

There's a surprising amount of science in choosing a successful name. The two most obvious are that it has to be easy to remember, and has to be hard to get wrong. Other than that, relevance to the subject matter is only a minor factor.

 

Oh dear clueless, you certainly have set a task - the only one I can come up with is 'Dynamics', don't know why just a thought.

 

So is this site going to be information for someone like me who has roots in the area or for someone visiting the area? Like a scrapbook or montage?

 

Neither and both.

I want to promote the area to people from outside of the area, with a view to getting people to come in and spend money. Mostly though I want to make everybody realise what we've got on our doorstep, ultimately to everyone's benefit. I don't want local kids to claim to be bored while there's loads to do and loads of clubs to join for example, and I don't want people to say there are never any jobs when local businesses are struggling to recruit simply because they have nowhere to advertise without paying today's extortionate rates to recruitment firms (the going rate for a recruitment consultancy to find a full time member of staff for a client company is between 12 and 25% of that person's first year's salary, so to hire someone with a starting salary of £18k, via an agency, might cost the company over £4000, which is just plain silly. That's the fee for running a computer program that roughly matches key words in a collection of CVs with key words in a job description, and then forwarding a few CVs by email, having deliberately excluded the candidate's contact details.

There's an extra bit though. I want to promote local community groups, make it easy for people to show an interest in such groups and get in contact with them, or even express an interest in something that is not mentioned on the site that they think other people might also be interested in.

 

Good description of a hell of a lot of potential avenues of interest there Clueless.

Cleveland Collective ??

 

Ok, maybe going a bit too deep here ...

East Riding coat of arms bore a blue eagle: the collective noun for eagles is ...

"Convocation" ​

('convocation' also means "calling together"; 4 syllables; too much like, conversation - ok scrub that)​

Next: the motto was: Solis Ortum Conspicere meaning, "To behold the sunrise", everyone is connected by the sun, so ...

"Sunrise", (or even "Solis") ​

(2 syllables; lacks originality? Latin version too close to solice - ok, scrub that)​

With the latin theme in mind ...

"Via"​

(Latin for road; 2 syllables - short and to the point.) ​

Crikey, blooming hard this!!

Quote: "everything we do affects everyone else" .....

Ripple​

(2 syllables; Redcar Ripple too area specific; "The Ripple", hmm to long?)​

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Or, maybe you are missing the very obvious (?) ...​

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"Clueless"​

(2 syllables; catchy! Blast, copyright issue potential?)​

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Do let us know what you come up with Clue ​