Florida Panhandle Online - All inclusive community, relocation and travel guide, information resource and community building for the Florida Panhandle.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:05:38 -0600

Online Communities is currently updating and upgrading Florida Panhandle Online. You will not see many additions to the site that you see right now, but in a few weeks Florida Panhandle Online will have a new look. The goal for updating Florida Panhandle Online is to make it more user friendly for both visitor, users and members. Please check back often to see the NEW Florida Panhandle Online!!

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:11:32 -0600

Drupal Option

Drupal is the name of the software that powers Florida Panhandle Online. There are Drupal web sites all over the world, and many of them share their registration databases so that users may freely log in to any Drupal site using a single Drupal ID.

So please feel free to log in to your account here at Florida Panhandle Online with a username from another Drupal site. The format of a Drupal ID is similar to an e-mail address: username@server. An example of a valid Drupal ID is mwlily@drupal.org.

Yahoo Option

Enables user authentication via Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication. Login now by clicking here: yahoo_bbauth login.

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:25:07 -0500

Below are articles, tips and hints on bird watching in the Florida Panhandle.

Florida Panhandle Birdwatching

The Florida Panhandle is one of the world's richest areas in bird life. During various seasons, one may find species that cannot be found anywhere else in the country. In the Florida Panhandle, with its remarkable and varied population of birds, one may find limpkins, long-billed marsh wrens, seaside sparrows, willets, redbellied woodpeckers, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and outstanding wintering populations of ducks and geese. One of the most specatular times for birdwatching in the panhandle is from mid-April to May and again from mid-August to mid-December, these time frames are the migration times for many birds. Trying some of our state and national parks may provide you with the best opportunities for bird watching while you are visiting the area.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:20:06 -0500

New to Florida Panhandle Online

We have added a new resource to the site that we believe will be of great use and very popular to all registered users. It is an employment section that provides users with the means to post a resume for employers to view and access a job posting database. This is completely free to job seekers and is a very low cost to employers.

For employers, this may be the cheapest means of posting job openings and searching resumes for the panhandle of Florida on the world wide web.

Give our employment section a test drive.

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:47:25 -0500

By registering to Florida Panhandle Online, you will recieve free access to several areas that guests do not have access to or can not see at all.

As a registered user, you will have the ability to post items to our free announcements, events calendar and classifieds. Other benefits include the ability to post photos to the photo gallery, post recipes to the recipe book and post your resume to the resume database searchable by employers. As a guest, several pages are not viewable, but as a registered user you will be able to see and utilize buddy lists, chat rooms, forums and postcard.

To take advantage of these options, register here.

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:37:20 -0500

Perhaps you have a specific list of questions you would like to ask your customers.

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Below is a listing of options available to your company in it's quest to find what their customers are thinking.

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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:06:51 -0600

As it is our goal to be the premier electronic source for community, consumer, relocation and tourism information for the panhandle of Florida, this service is constantly being updated and upgraded to reflect current events and information. The amount of information contained with in Florida Panhandle Online is so great, that it is a tremendous undertaking to keep all information consistently accurate. So, if you come across something requires updating, please feel free to use the forms provided to let us know about events, links and businesses.

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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:13:49 -0600

Florida Panhandle Online is an online community, relocation and tourism guide. We designed this guide to specifically target the community of the Florida Panhandle and those that may visit or relocate to this area. The primary purposes of this unique online community, relocation and tourism guide is to promote our area businesses and culture. Secondly, to provide the information on the businesses and resources available to our community.

The population of the Florida Panhandle represents the long-time residents to the constantly changing military and DoD contractor, along with the visitor wanting to enjoy at least a few moments of the tranquil and relaxing way of life. These people are looking for specific information about the area, that this site alone will provide them. The top rated search engines, that you may have your website listed with, may occasionally direct viewers to it, but these sites are not focused on a specific community. We here at Florida Panhandle Online are striving to stay in tune exclusively with the businesses and people of this community.

By becoming a member of Florida Panhandle Online you will not only be advertising your business, you will also be supporting a valuable resource to the community and visitors that shops or requires your services. Florida Panhandle Online is a privately owned business, funded fully by local business owners and affiliates.

With over 68% of the population online, this unique community, relocation and tourism guide is the most efficient means of advertising your business at a lower price. Between 2000 and 2005, the amount of internet users increased by 115% and is expected to increase at that rate over the next five years. Florida Panhandle Online is providing local businesses with the prime opportunity to take advantage of this growth.

As an added bonus to signing up to any of the packages below, we will create an account for you with Cricket Surf Traffic Exchange and Cricket Surf Banner Exchange and provide you with 10,000 credits for each account. This will provide your website with instant traffic, which in turn will start increasing your Alexa ranking.

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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:06:17 -0600

Florida Panhandle Overview

The Florida Panhandle Online covers the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 12 counties in the state. It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama and Georgia to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Culturally and in terms of history and climate, the region is more closely tied to the Deep South than to peninsular Florida.

The Panhandle draws more than seven million vistors annually from around the world. Attractions include golf courses, zoos, world-class beaches, water sports and fine restaurants. It is second only to Orlando's Walt Disney World in terms of visitors traveling to Florida and is one of the most popular vacation destination in the country.

The Emerald Coast, which is slowly becoming the American Riviera, is an area in the southeastern United States on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, roughly bounded by Pensacola, Florida on the west and Panama City, Florida on the east. The area is known to have some of the most stunning and finest beaches in the world, famous for their sugar-white sands and warm, emerald-green waters. The beaches were also deemed to have the whitest sand in the world where it sparkled in the sun and squeaked when walked on. Contrary to popular belief, the sand is not bleached by the sun, but is comprised of Appalachian quartz that filters down to the coast from the mountains. The emerald-green color of the water is due to the sugar-white color of the sand laying beneath the clear blue water thus providing the area's namesake feature. The quartz sand on the beaches of the Panhandle is so white that some traders reportedly sold it as sugar in World War II.

The beach towns, many of which play host to college students during spring break. Popular vacation destinations include Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City Beach, relative newcomer Destin, and Seaside, a development community whose iconic pastel-paint and tin-roof construction was made famous in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, filmed in the area from 1996-1997. Other communities on the Emerald Coast include Perdido Key, Navarre, Sandestin, Grayton Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, and Seagrove.

The area is known as a family drive destination, although in the past decade, its popularity has expanded greatly, leading to new construction booms and seemingly overnight changes. Many development communities similar to Seaside have sprung up in Walton County and the west end of Panama City Beach, raising property values, and some might argue, aesthetic appeal.

Deep-sea fishing is a huge draw for the area, with Destin holding the nickname "World's Luckiest Fishing Village" (and several saltwater world records) and Panama City Beach hosting the annual high-dollar Bay Point Billfish Invitational. Eating seafood is perhaps even more popular than catching it, with a seafood restaurant and/or oyster house seemingly on every other corner.

This roughly 100-mile stretch is home to several military bases, with installations including Pensacola Naval Air Station (home of the Navy's famed Blue Angels flying squadron and the initial training site where all naval aviators earn their "wings of gold"), Hurlburt Field, Eglin Air Force Base (one of the largest military bases in America), Tyndall Air Force Base (home to the Air Force's new F-22 Raptor fighter jets), Coastal Systems Station-Naval Surface Warfare Center (home to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and Naval Diving & Salvage Training Center), and Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center. The Florida Panhandle has been marked by upscale developments in recent decades. These include Seaside, Sandestin, and countless others. In fact, development in the coastal area has become so commonplace that very little beachfront property remains untouched, unless it is under the stewardship of the Federal or State Government.<[...]

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:21:44 -0600

Florida Panhandle Online is a product and service of Online Communities. The primary purpose of Florida Panhandle Online is to promote businesses within the counties and cities of the panhandle of Florida. Secondly, it provides resources, information and a community building portal for the businesses and community of the Florida Panhandle, as well as providing a guide for those visiting our great community. Florida Panhandle Online serves the counties of Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and Washington Florida.

Online Communities is funded entirely by our members. Please frequent our members and let them know that you saw them on flphonline.com (Florida Panhandle Online). Our members would be very appreciative that their advertising dollars are being well spent.

As it is our goal to be the premier electronic source for community, consumer, relocation and tourism information for the panhandle of Florida, this service is constantly being updated and upgraded to reflect current events and information. The amount of information contained with in Florida Panhandle Online is so great, that it is a tremendous undertaking to keep all information consistently accurate. So, if you come across something requires updating, please feel free to bring it to our attention.

We highly recommend that you check in on this site each time you are online. The front page will always contain changes and additions. You can also use the What's New or What's Hot pages to find recently added information.