We quietly rolled out a new feature earlier this week to allow everyone to add images to both Events and Heritage Listings. We'll be expanding this to include other elements of the site in the future.

Uploading images is easy - simply click the link in the events pages or heritage listing pages to upload up to 10 images at a time.

For example, I uploaded some images from the Tesselaar Tulip Festival from a few weeks ago. I was able to take some great photos (and eat some great poffertjes) and was fortunate to have beautiful weather that weekend.

I have some other exciting news as well - we're going to be expanding to cover the rest of Australia over the coming months and the first steps towards this roll out have been happening behind the scenes.

Each state will come online separately, so that we can ensure that the quality of our data set is of the same standard that we have for Victoria at the moment.

Looking forward to making the site a truly Aussie experience that everyone can enjoy!

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Last night we rolled out a major new feature - scheduled events.

This allows everyone to list events on the site which repeat on a regular basis, e.g. montly, weekly, fortnightly, annually, etc.

The system is flexible enough to support "day of week" style monthly listings too, such as "1st Saturday of each month" or in the case of Melbourne Cup, the first Tuesday in November each year.

Here's how the schedule is configured when adding an event -

I've added a bunch of regional farmer's markets to the site using this new feature, and I hope it paves the way for many more smaller organisations to list their regular community events on the site!

If you have any feedback about this new feature (or any others), please get in contact or use the feedback link in the "More Information" section of the footer.

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Today we set another major feature live - something that's been planned since the major UI overhaul a couple of months ago - Search!

Now when you go to the front page of the site, or to one of the three new sub-pages (Events, Heritage Listings, Local Questions) you will be presented with a search box.

Use this search feature to look for any content that you're after across the site.

The search is designed to be simple to use, and we think it will significantly change the way that you use the site and find the content that you're interested in.

For example, if I was interested in finding out more about "Clayton", I could search for "Clayton" and be presented with these results -

• Clayton, 3168 (Location)
• Clayton Street Festival (Event)
• Clayton Railway Station (Heritage Listing)
• Does anyone know a good lawyer? (Question)

This gives me an immediate overview of stuff I might be interested in, in this area.

This is step one is a series of changes which will transform the cross referencing and relational aspects of the site. While the site started out as a series of pages about suburbs across the state, our intention is to turn the site into a more targeted, cross referenced index of places of interest where you can interact with others in a social way.

Anyhow, we hope that you find the introduction of search to be a useful improvement to the site, and we welcome any feedback - use the feedback feature on the left of every page to make a suggestion or comment.

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