24 hours

What a difference 24 hours can make!

Our last idea of using the subdomains for our cities, such as los-angeles.everywhereslocal.com or los_angeles.everywhereslocal.com or even losangeles.everywhereslocal.com has been redone.

Yep... a bit easier to use yet a lot more flexible. Our system has been modified so that our format follows the following:

http://city_name-state_name-zipcode.everywhereslocal.com
http://city_name-state_name-country_name.everywhereslocal.com

a _ must be used to signal a space in the state or country name (although a cityname can be entered without a space), and a - is the separator. At a later time we may decide to let all fields be without a _ in them (ex: albany-newyork-unitedstatesofamerica), but for now we're enforcing the _=space rule.

Update on our new city system!

Our simplified way of getting to your city (or close to it anyway!) of:
http://cityname.everywhereslocal.com

still works. However, we recommend that if your townname has spaces in it, replace the space with an _ or a -

ex:
http://los-angeles.everywhereslocal.com/

http://new_york.everywhereslocal.com/

New City Access Features

Starting today, you can now access your town in a multitude of ways.

You can enter: http://everywhereslocal.com
followed by:
/state/statename
/city/cityname
/zip/zipcode
/postal/postalcode
(/zip & /postal are the same system wise, but provided for internatinoal users!)

or... followed by:
?city=cityname&st=statename
?country=countryname
etc

or, perhaps the easiest way for some locations:
http://chicago.everywhereslocal.com
http://losangeles.everywhereslocal.com
http://your_town_name_without_spaces.everywhereslocal.com

Of course, the first hit in our database will show up first. If you enter a cityname that doesn't show up as you'd expect (i.e. it's a major city, but a non-major city page shows), please tell us!

Also, if you get a "cannot connect to ____" message, please try again later... it may take a while for all the DNS stuff to propagate through the internet.

Minor Site Update

Everywhere's Local has undergone a minor site change. We've matched all the main page's colors, put similar items in boxes that are the same width, added a bit of "no script" information in case visitors visit our site with javascript turned off. All in all, I think it looks a lot better!

Personally, I recommend firefox to browse the internet, some things look a bit better, it's more standards compliant in some ways, but the one feature I love is being able to turn off javascript and java easilly. It makes many web pages load a LOT faster! Of course those of you who do so know why -- ads are displayed on websites via JavaScript. So... disable JavaScript... disable ads.

But some sites do require JavaScript, but it's easy to re-enable them.