Adding Events is as Easy as 1-2-3!

Every autumn it’s nice to reflect on summer and what you did. Well, we’ll always remember this one as a summer we made events and business listings submissions easier than ever before. Now when you submit your event on 49st you don’t need spend time editing content, browsing our system or reading documentation. You probably don’t event need to add it!

Why is that?

Simply visit our ‘add content’ page and start typing your listing name. If it already exists (which is likely) then just “claim” and “verify” the information.

Here’s an example for the sample event “Spirit of the Dance”:

We made this process as simple as current industry standards offer.

But these are not all the improvement we have. When you take ‘ownership’ or create a new listing, you now have the opportunity the promote your listing to increase awareness and help spread-the-word.

Here’s how our new promote feature works (again for the sample event “Spirit of the Dance”):

And yes, you couldn’t help but notice that we accept online payments now. We selected Paypal since it is secure and a well recognized brand. Now you can order a promotion campaign tonight and have it up-and-running tomorrow.

So, where’s the benefit to you?

You’re right, we are so happy with these new promotional features that will gladly give you a discount of one free Newsletter or Featured listing (valued at $49). Just visit our store with the promo code “doubletheexposure” and, get one promotion free.

Happy Father’s Day

We keep working on the best search experience and now glad to present new cool location search style with improved category search: we felt that searching among events and features is a bit confusing for our users so what we did is an addition to the search field with search database label so that you always mind what type of content you request.

Besides we are proud still keeping our course using CSS3 effects everywhere we can bypass using images so that your search result pages opened in less than no time.

With this family holiday we start a new tradition at 49st preparing best search ideas about holidays time passing. We analyze traditions and variety of events and places to go and give you few sharpest listings on the 49st landing page. And of course we'll try to make a holiday mood for you with some fabulous design.

Happy coming Father’s Day gentlemen.

Enable Safari 5 Reader

We like to trim sails to the wind here in 49st Technologies and as soon as Apple announced some new outstanding features in new version of their Safari browser we could not resist to add some new stuff to keep our site among the most modern events and places search engines in US and Canada so the first thing we did we enabled their new Reader view mode on the events and venues details pages.

To use Reader you need to go to any event or venue page that has significant description length, for instance, the Osgoode Hall page. When the page is loaded and you see Reader label in your address bar, click on it to read venue description in a better way.

Even more! We enabled this feature in this blog too, just look up!


What Is Safari Reader?
Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story. It works like this: As you browse the web, Safari detects if you’re on a web page with an article. Click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field, and the article appears instantly in one continuous, clutter-free view. You see every page of the article — whether two or twenty. Onscreen controls let you email, print, and zoom. Change the size of the text, and Safari remembers it the next time you view an article in Safari Reader.


How to Enable Safari Reader on Your Site?
In order to enable Reader feature at any site you need your page to satisfy 3 easy conditions:

1. Add <article></article> tag around your content. This is new to HTML5 tag so don’t be afraid if your editor doesn’t highlight its syntax.
2. Make sure you content is well structured: you must use <H1>—<H6> header tags for titles and <P> for content.
3. And finally make sure your article is long enough. The point is that Safari disables Reader for content shorter than 1500 symbols. Also make sure each paragraph contains at least 100 symbols i.e. they have reasonable length for easy reading.

Reader doesn't require RSS to be set at your site, so don't worry if you don't have it.

Face Lifting

What 49st was missing before is an accent on search. So the first change we started with was a new search interface. Not simply a search box with suggestions but a tool which gives you ideas about your time passing. Now we are going to keep the landing page always in touch by giving you new search ideas, upcoming holidays related searches and most popular event right in first seconds of your web surfing.

No matter we have just released this new page, we already can't wait showing you new improvements we prepared for it.