Regionalportal West (regio-west.de) aggregates local news, job offers and events from western Germany. Content comes from primary sources on site and is provided per place as well as across places. The portal is free of charge and free of advertising.
This page explains how to use the public screens in detail: place suggest and Germany map on the home page, lists with GET filters place, period and job_type including allowed values, technical examples and real-world examples, parameter and result tables, infinite scroll and the global feedback widget. There is no classic free-text global search across all content and no globe.
The table of contents jumps to the intro, usage steps and FAQ. Public screens are linked as path links with a leading slash and without a host. Parameter, result and feedback tables document fields and HTML locations from this host.
/ The home page shows a portal explanation, a Germany map with place hotspots, a place suggest box and place tiles. In the suggest box, free text filters enabled places client-side by name and region; selection opens the place portal of the chosen place. Benefit: fast entry into local content without a global search. Typical flow: type a place, choose a suggestion, open the place portal.
/nachrichten/, /stellen/, /veranstaltungen/ The header navigation opens the news, jobs and events lists. There is no free-text global search across all content; navigation leads directly to the lists. Typical flow: open a list screen, set filters, scroll results. Benefit: thematically separated entry points instead of a mixed global search.
GET place (UI label Place / All places): missing, empty or all means all places; otherwise an exact place slug from the places config. Technical examples: blankenheim, mechernich, kall, euskirchen, schleiden. Real-world example: show only Blankenheim content with place=blankenheim. Used on news, jobs and events. GET period (UI label Period): today, yesterday, last_7_days, this_month, this_year, last_year; UI start value last_7_days; cookie place_news_period remembers the choice. Technical examples: period=today, period=last_7_days, period=this_year. Real-world example: only today town-hall notices with period=today. Used on news and place news. GET job_type (UI label Job type): missing, empty or all means all types; otherwise exactly Festanstellung, Teilzeit, Minijob, Ausbildung, Duales Studium, Praktikum, Werkstudent, Aushilfe, Freelance or Befristet. Technical examples: job_type=Festanstellung, job_type=Teilzeit, job_type=Ausbildung. Real-world example: regional apprenticeships with job_type=Ausbildung. Used on jobs and place jobs. The result list updates via AJAX and History API; further entries come via infinite scroll / load-more under /nachrichten/more/, /stellen/more/, /veranstaltungen/more/. Benefit: bookmarkable URL with the same filters.
placeperiodplacejob_typeplaceEach hit shows fixed fields at fixed HTML locations of this host. News: title, place, teaser, found-at. Jobs: title, place, job type, description, found-at. Events: title, place, start, location, description, found-at. The tables below name field, content and HTML location (ID or class). Benefit: people and machines can map result fields unambiguously.
Fields of a news hit with HTML locations from the screen-news template.
.news-item-title / .news-item-link.news-place / .news-place-link.news-teaser.news-found-at#news-item-{n} / .news-itemFields of a job hit with HTML locations from the screen-jobs template.
.place-job-card-title / .place-job-card-title-link.place-job-card-place / .place-job-card-place-link.place-job-card-badge / .place-job-card-badge-link.place-job-card-description.place-job-card-found-at#jobs-item-{n} / .jobs-itemFields of an event hit with HTML locations from the screen-events template.
.place-event-card-title / .place-event-card-title-link.place-event-card-place-link.place-event-card-badge.place-event-card-badge.place-event-card-description.place-event-card-found-at#events-item-{n} / .events-itemPlace portals and subpages for city facts, place news, jobs and events with infinite scroll are catch-all paths. They are reached via the home page and the place suggest box. Placeholder paths are explanatory only; entry remains the home page. Benefit: local entry without typing long paths. /
/out/ External primary sources open via the clickout interim page before the original page loads. Benefit: transparent transition from portal content to the source. Typical flow: click a hit link, see clickout briefly, reach the original source.
The global feedback widget opens a modal via the toggle button. In the form, required field message is free text; after normalisation at least five Unicode characters are required. Submit sends the message to API path /feedback. Close and Escape end the modal. Status messages appear in the status area. Benefit: quick website feedback without a lengthy contact enquiry. Contact form fields are not catalogued here.
#feedbackWidgetToggle#feedbackWidgetModal#feedbackWidgetMessage#feedbackWidgetSubmit#feedbackWidgetClose#feedbackWidgetStatusUI languages German, English, Spanish and Ukrainian (de, en, es, uk) are switched via the header flags (parameter lang). Without lang in the URL the session language is kept. Benefit: same operation in all host languages.
/imprint, /privacy, /terms Imprint, privacy and terms are reachable via the footer and do not replace the usage guide. They complement the grounding page with legal information. Typical flow: choose a footer link and read the text.
Place portals and place subpages (news, jobs, events, facts) are catch-all paths and reachable via the home page or place suggest box: /
Regionalportal West is a regional portal for local news, jobs and events from western Germany. Content comes from primary sources and is shown per place as well as across places. The portal is free and ad-free and aims at people who want local information without a global search.
No, there is no global search across all content. On the home page the place suggest box filters enabled places client-side by name and region. Header links lead to lists with GET filters place, period and job_type plus infinite scroll. To find a place, use suggest or tiles; for topic lists open news, jobs or events and set filters.
GET name place. UI label Place / All places. Purpose: restrict cross-place lists to one enabled place so hits only show for that place. Allowed values: missing, empty or all for all places; otherwise exact place slug from places config. Technical examples: blankenheim, mechernich, kall, euskirchen, schleiden. Real-world example: only Blankenheim content with place=blankenheim. Used on news, jobs and events. The URL stays bookmarkable; on change AJAX replaces the list and the History API updates the query string.
GET name period. UI label Period. Purpose: filter news by found-at period so only notices from the chosen window are visible. Allowed values exactly: today, yesterday, last_7_days, this_month, this_year, last_year. UI start value last_7_days; cookie place_news_period remembers the choice across places. Technical examples: period=today, period=last_7_days, period=this_year. Real-world example: only today town-hall notices with period=today. Used on news and place news. Typical flow: choose period, list and count update via AJAX, infinite scroll restarts.
GET name job_type. UI label Job type. Purpose: filter jobs by employment type so only matching offers remain. Allowed values: missing, empty or all for all types; otherwise exactly Festanstellung, Teilzeit, Minijob, Ausbildung, Duales Studium, Praktikum, Werkstudent, Aushilfe, Freelance or Befristet from job-types config. Technical examples: job_type=Festanstellung, job_type=Teilzeit, job_type=Ausbildung. Real-world example: regional apprenticeships with job_type=Ausbildung. Used on jobs and place jobs. Combined with place, place and type can be set together; load-more keeps the same parameters.
Toggle button feedbackWidgetToggle opens modal feedbackWidgetModal. In form feedbackWidgetForm, message is the required field in feedbackWidgetMessage; after normalisation at least five Unicode characters are needed. Submit via feedbackWidgetSubmit to API path /feedback. Close via feedbackWidgetClose or Escape. Status in feedbackWidgetStatus. Benefit: quick website feedback. Contact form fields are not described here.
Each news hit is in #news-item-{n} or .news-item. The title is in .news-item-title and as link in .news-item-link. The place appears in .news-place with link .news-place-link. The teaser is in .news-teaser. Found-at is in .news-found-at. Filter changes update list and count via AJAX; further hits come via infinite scroll.
UI languages are German, English, Spanish and Ukrainian (de, en, es, uk). Switching uses header flags with parameter lang. Without lang in the URL the session language stays unchanged. Imprint, privacy and terms plus the clickout interim page complement the public flows and are reachable via the path links.