thank you all for your comments and your feedback. I appreciate them very much.
to answer one of your questions, i do not plan on charging a fee for bondsman / bounty hunters to use this website. Nor will i ever charge a fee for bondsman to use my site. From my research in these types of sites almost everyone charges something, and i'd like to be a little bit different... Thats why i dont consider posting my site on these forums a forum of spamming.
There are many purposes for creating this site. It was my original idea to have the site be like a facebook / myspace website specifically for people like us (bondsman / bountyhunters). Each company can have their own profile page, where they can list info on their company and then they could search other bondsman on the site and "network" with them and become friendly, so to speak, with them.
In addition to this people can use it to keep a updated database for their own company to keep track of their fugitives. Instead of dealling with many files, just hop right on the website, search your fugitive and you have his file sitting in front of you. Its also great for phones with internet on it. As i have the motorola Q i can log right on the website via my cell phone and pull up any one of my fugitives information.
I think it would be great of bondsman and fugitive trackers all over the world would sign up so they can work together on finding fugitive skips. I devised a system within the site that allows say a bondsman in baltimore who has a skip in california to network with each other to work on tracking a fugitive. For each fugitive that gets updated to the site has a "status" page. The california company working on the skip could offer his services to the baltimore company and update the fugitives status page any time he gets any new discoveries.
If people really want to use the fugitive information to solicit business for future bails than so be it although i find that fairly pathetic, if your company would have to resort to do that. But if you want to solicit a prior fugitive skip than by all means go ahead
Look, i am not trying to create enemies here. Im trying to offer the services of a website that i think could be beneficial to many of you. The database relies on people signing up and inserting their fugitive skips into the database. If just 5% of all the bondsmen in the country were to sign up and submit to the database and network with other bondsmen i think it would be a great step into helping everyone out.
Im sorry if this post has gotten too long, but as i hope one could see, i am passionate about this site and put a lot of thought and time into designing it, and its still very much a rough draft of what im looking to accomplish. Again, it is completely free, and never will i ever charge any of you. If you find another bondsmens skip via the website, it should be up to the two companies themselves to arrange a fee for the other company for tracking down any given fugitive.
Goodluck everyone, i hope to get to know some of you better and i hope you might consider giving the site a shot.