Announcement: One half of the web is now encrypted and so are we

Over the weekend – yes we had nothing better to do – we switched 99% of Our Locality sites over to the secure encryption protocol (TLS/SSL), so now when you visit one of our sites or login you should see…

The Theatre of the Herring Industry

Dunbar and Eyemouth were theatres of the Herring Industry in former times, until the silver darlings went away. Here is an eloquent and intelligent reflection on what happened on the other side of the pond. This also illustrates what you…

Snow predicted until Jan 4th

Virtual snow warning across East Lothian websites. If you have a blog/website on OurLocality you may have noticed a light snow fall which also follows your mouse movements.

Upgrade downtime – summer is here

We’ll be back by the end of lunch, with a fair wind and a bit of luck. And whilst we have your attention, Der Sommer ist da, Zeit für ein neues Release. Bald ist es soweit. The news on the grapevine…

Events, dear boy, events

What ourlocality publishers should fear most are those repeating events articles, that you need to be able recycle each year, or perhaps more regularly – broadly similar content but with a fresh twist and definitely a new date stamp. But…

Twenty Ten Generation: 50 Alternative Templating Options

Are you one of the Twenty Ten template generation? Did you know current WordPress default theme is now Twenty Sixteen, though we particularly like Twenty Fifteen (our new default). Anyway Ourlocality offers around 50 templates for your community website project, blog or…