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…

Create and configure a contact page

Most people seem to be OK with advertising an email address on their website, and there is nothing wrong with this approach. But what if you don’t have a business email, don’t want to or cannot create a new bespoke…

Do I need a website?

Do a Google search on this and unsurprisingly the echo is a universal: YES. The chorus is from the usual suspects, peddling their website consultancy services. Self-evidently there are good reasons for having a website, but there’s plenty reasons why you…