| On Saturday, August 18, 2007: | | Map of Kayalpatnam |
A new feature - Map of Kayalpatnam - has been added. Map is sourced from Kayalpatnam Municipality and it is hand-drawn.
Click here for Map of Kayalpatnam |
| On Tuesday, August 14, 2007: | | Page Link Emailing Facility |
A facility enabling emailing of any page [url only](in Kayalpatnam.com) that you are viewing has been added. It is available - just below the page heading in almost all the pages.
Clicking on it will take you to a new page - where you can provide your name and email address - as well as the name and email address of the recepient. The page would be sent as a link to the recepient.
You can use this feature - to send a link of a news item, history page, map page etc |
| On Saturday, August 11, 2007: | | Rich Text Editor Introduced! |
Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the discussion board!
This feature allows you to present the text in more flexible ways - using colours and other stylings (bullets, background colors, special characters, tables) !!
Links can be added more easily. Pictures can be referred to quickly! You can do a lots more.
Please use it judiciously :-)
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| On Wednesday, July 18, 2007: | | Images section modified | Images section has now been improved with new features!
The following features have been added -
1)Thumb Nails View
2)Captions View
3)Search through captions
This is in addition to the existing slide show functionality
Click here to view images section |
| On Saturday, July 14, 2007: | | Registration Page Modified | Registration page has now been modified!
Captcha has been implemented to protect from automated (spam) registrations!
A quick username availability check facility has also been implemented (using Ajax)! |
| On Wednesday, May 16, 2007: | | Schools section | A new section - Schools - is currently online. It provides comprehensive detail and analysis of March 2007 Plus Two (HSC) examination results of Kayalpatnam schools
Click here for Schools section |
| On Friday, May 11, 2007: | | Remembering Login | A new functionality that remembers a member has already logged in from a particular PC has been added. This helps to avoid repeated logins. This is how it works.
When you login through the login link, you will see a check box with the text - remember me in this computer. If you select that option and login, the Website would remember your choice. Next time you visit Kayalpatnam.com from the same system, the Website will remember this and will not ask you to login again.
Use this option only from a private computer or a PC to which only you will have access.
If you want to turn off this feature, all you need to do is just logout after you finish browsing Kayalpatnam.com |
| On Sunday, March 11, 2007: | | Sport's Page | A new sports page is currently online - coinciding with the beginning of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007
Click here for Sports Page |
| On Wednesday, January 31, 2007: | | Health Issues Page | A new section - Health Issues - is currently online.
This page would be regularly updated - leading up to specific health awareness days.
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| On Sunday, January 07, 2007: | | Historical references to Kayalpatnam | A new page - titled Historical References to Kayalpatnam - is currently online. It contains image of a historical map and scanned pages of an old encyclopaedia
Click here for historical references to Kayalpatnam |
| On Tuesday, October 10, 2006: | | Free @kayalpatnam.com email service | A free email service - with 2GB space - has now been activated. It uses the Google Apps program - which is in beta mode. The service is available to registered users of Kayalpatnam.com. Initially - up to 100 email ids are being given on a first-come-first-served basis. To activate your account, please login to your account and click on Click here to activate Email Service. The email id would be of the format: username@kayalpatnam.com
A calendar program is also included with the email account
Please note, in order to give preference to existing users, for the time being, email accounts are being given only to users who had registered and activated by 5:00PM IST, October 10, 2006
Click here to login |
| On Monday, October 09, 2006: | | Fun Messages Added | A new section under Fun Zone page - called the Fun Messages - has been added.
Mobile phones and emails are sources of many fun messages these days. You can share some of those messages with rest of the World by posting them here.
Messages would be filtered for appropriate content. Standard rules apply - no offensive/explicit content!
Click here for the Fun Zone page |
| On Friday, October 06, 2006: | | Support Charities Page | A new link - called Support Charities - giving detail about major charitable organisations in Kayalpatnam has been added.
Click here for the Support Charities page |
| On Thursday, August 24, 2006: | | Add pictures of Kayal places | The facility to add pictures of Kayalpatnam places has been added. This is available under Images section. Rules as for the sizes is similar to those for Gallery and Vintage sections.
Click here for Kayalpatnam places Image section |
| On Tuesday, May 30, 2006: | | Member pictures | Registered members can now upload their pictures. To do this, they must first login and - in the welcome screen - use the browse button to select their image file. This is an optional feature. |
| On Tuesday, May 23, 2006: | | Print option for discussion board | Now you could print the entire discussion on a thread by using the link at the top of every post. A track back link along with dateline is also printed along with the all the messages. |
| On Saturday, April 22, 2006: | | Fun Zone | A new section called Fun Zone has been added. It carries online Sudoku Puzzles as well as Speed Typing Tests. More fun content would be added periodically.
Click here for Fun Zone |
| On Monday, April 10, 2006: | | Images - the new section | A new section called Images is currently online. It has two areas: Picture Gallery and Vintage Kayal.
Picture Gallery is for pictures of young children. Vintage Kayal is for old pictures of Kayalpatnam - taken years/decades ago.
Please use the forms provided in the Website to submit pictures.
As a general rule, these pictures must not exceed 400 pixels in width, 300 pixels in height and should be less than 40 KB.
Click here for Images page |
| On Thursday, March 23, 2006: | | Chat Rooms @ Kayalpatnam.com | Kayalpatnam.com now has chat rooms. The chat rooms are IRC-based. IRCs (Internet Relay Chats) are one of the oldest chat technologies on the Web
Click here for the Chat Rooms |
| On Tuesday, March 21, 2006: | | Diaspora News On Separate Page | A Unified Diaspora News and Messages page is now available
Click here for Diaspora News |
| On Sunday, March 19, 2006: | | Birthdays Page | A new link - called Birthdays - has been added to the Site. It gives - by month - the birthdays of Members registered with the Website
Click here for Member Birthdays |
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