Attracting more than 15,000 monthly visitors, BisManCafe is the premiere community hub for Bismarck-Mandan. The site differentiates itself through its unique user-centered approach and diverse content offerings, bridging hyperlocal news, free classifieds, a comprehensive database, enormous image gallery, business directory, and a locally targeted social network community into one destination.
The site launched in November 2007. Facebook had only been publicly accessible for a year and the first iPhone had just debuted. The interactive component was simply a message board… the most common social tool of the era.
Since then, the site has continued to evolve and adapt to ongoing trends. The simplistic message board was replaced with a modern social community embracing today’s “stream” format in 2012… the same year classifieds were added. The first responsive design debuted in 2013 in response to growing mobile usage.