Ourlocality has just gone Green

We have just upgraded to WordPress 3.4. “Green” in honour of guitarist Grant Green, known for his soulful simplicity. Check for problems and report back. Simplicity is a refreshing constant in the WordPress philosophy so we try not to clutter…

Who gives a cookie?

Let’s face it the web can be a dangerous place. There are online scams. There are viruses. There’s phishing. There’s cookies, remember them? Crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. While cookies are not likely to be exclusively…

Changing Ourlocality

OurLocality is changing all the time. In more ways than one. Partly this is due to the assemblage of tools that we use to keep everything going. Sometimes things don’t work as well as they should. Sometimes they don’t get…

Are hesitation repetition and deviation bad?

Apart from in “Just a minute”, where the rules forbid it, hesitation, repetition, and deviation can often be used to positive effect. Hesitators like Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus waited for the right moment to intervene in battle [1. His nickname “Cunctator”…

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…