Hello everyone.  I am looking for some ideas/suggestions on a site concept I am working on.  It is sort of a social network (ala MySpace) but more for the B2C space.  Here are some of the requirements:

• I want to have an area (not sure if it is a page or a child portal) where a small company can have information about themselves - typical stuff like name, address, services offered, photos...
• The small company space should have friendly URLs so that they can be easily found on the net.  The pages should also be found by search engines (Google, etc.).
• I *may* want to allow the small companies to update their own space.
• Potential customers should be able to come to the site and browse (like the browse feature on MySpace) to find these small companies via key attributes: city, state, zip, business type, rating, etc.  They can select from the filtered list, then view the small company space.
• Customers can also rate the services they received and make recommendations to other customers (note the rating above).

Any thoughts on design ideas or modules that I can pull together to make this happen?  Should I use pages or child portals?  Your ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance,

- Ron.

Check out the URL rewriting code that Scott M has posted over at www.ventrian.com I think it'll allow you to do what you want fairly easily.