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Equality Fairfax Has a New Host
Submitted by linda on December 27, 2006 - 12:15am.In order to keep our website current and bring more capabilities to the web, we've changed hosting providers. The initial result of this change should be transparent except that some of the intermittant problems the site has been experiencing should be eliminated. read more »
Mysteriously Duplicating Menus
Submitted by linda on December 21, 2006 - 2:03pm.For some reason, some of the menus on the site, particularly in the navigation menu have taken to spontaneously duplicating themselves. We're aware of the problem and are looking into the cause. In the meantime, if you see some extra menu items from time to time, please excuse the duplication. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.
Web Links Should be Working Again
Submitted by linda on December 8, 2006 - 6:19pm.Unbeknownst to us, but perhaps knownst to you, the weblinks on the site had been broken since our site upgrade. Though the title and description were displaying properly, the site was not showing the URL to the site. This made them, well, less than useful. read more »
Intermittent Site Failures
Submitted by linda on December 1, 2006 - 6:05pm.We've been experiencing some intermittent problems with our database server over the last few days. It's possible that you may experience some much longer than normal page load times or even a message about not being able to contact the database server. read more »
New Contact Form for Website
Submitted by linda on November 30, 2006 - 10:14pm.The EF website now has a new contact us form. The new form allows you to direct your question according to subject. This should streamline the process of getting feedback back from us.
There was also some minor clean up of the site menus. A few of them had gotten a bit mangled during the site upgrade process.
As always, let us know if you experience any problems.
Major Website Upgrade Completed
Submitted by linda on November 26, 2006 - 2:49pm.The EF website has undergone a major update and although most of these changes aren't visible on the page, they are intended to help us bring more and better functionality to the website in the future. read more »
Photo Gallery Updated
Submitted by linda on November 25, 2006 - 7:51pm.The photo gallery portion of our website has been updated. Although no changes in functionality should occur, if problems occur, please let us know.
website software updated to drupal 4.6.10
Submitted by linda on November 14, 2006 - 9:56pm.The content management system that provides most of the functionality of the EF website was updated to version 4.6.10 of drupal. No user visible changes should result from this change but, as with any software change, problems or unexpected differences could occur. If you do experience problems, please let us know.
Two Days to Go! We're TIED! - Pass It On!
Submitted by linda on November 5, 2006 - 8:47pm.So, now there's even more reason to BELIEVE!
We can become the first state to say NO! We can make the right kind of history on Tuesday! All we have to do is believe and vote!
It's all up to you!
If you have friends, family, or co-workers that you haven't talked with about why they should vote NO, please call them. Call everyone stored on your cell phone! Call everyone in your rolledex. Send an email to everyone who you know. Make it personal! Do it now!
If you haven't signed up to work the polls on election day, please call 804-643-2050, 703-442-9590 or 757-622-8283 to volunteer. We still need pollworkers for Tuesday!
Vote NO on NOvember 7th!
Believe!!!
Claire Guthrie Gastañaga
Campaign Manager
The Commonwealth Coalition
P.S. NOVA isn't alone in thinking that the proposed amendment is a bad idea!
Check out what's happening all over the state:
The Culpeper Star Examiner says vote NO!
The Lynchburg News and Advance says
The Richmond Free Press says NO is the right vote on Tuesday!
The Bristol Herald Courier says that Ballot Question #1 is "redundant and unnecessary"! "Voters should think twice before tampering with these Constitutions to restrict freedom rather than to expand it. That's not the American way, nor is it a particularly conservative action."
It's time to send a message that
Multiple Emails Accidentally Sent
Submitted by linda on November 5, 2006 - 1:42pm.We apologize the for multiple copies of a couple of recent emails you may have received. A problem with our database server caused several instances of the email to get queued up without our realizing it. We think the problem is resolved and shouldn't happen again.