Local News

I’m not sure that everyone knows that their posts when published to their ourlocality site are also reproduced over at : http://news.ourlocality.org This news site contains a complete and searchable archive of all the historic articles ever published by you. We…

Help needed to manage my website

If you have a free website on ourlocality and need support post your questions on the Support Forum. Free ourlocality websites are completely DIY. We’re more than happy to help out on condition that others get the benefit too. So…

Satisfactory or in need of improvement?

We are always trying to improve, just like my report card used to say – ourlocality is very ‘capable but could so much better.’ Anyway, from today you can embed Polldaddy.com surveys (and polls) easily into any ourlocality hosted website.…

Advertising on ourlocality

It is rarer than it used to be, but everyso often you get an email from someone unknown and usually it begins something like this … Hi, Could we buy advertising space on news.ourlocality.org? A colleague of mine in our…

Get Facebook

Handling the Facebook embed code used to be a struggle (where to find it and what to do with it). Also it required a paid package to embed such things in your ourlocality website. We have recognised this limited things,…

Site access problems 6 Jan 2012

Some of you may have experienced site access issues this afternoon. The problem only affected site owners with their own domain name. The site access problem has now been resolved, but after a bit of a delay. The delay was…