I'm very happy to announce the full restoration of all SSSD Project web services. It has taken one solid month of unremitting hard work to accomplish the changeover from dotCanada to our new web host, BlueHost.com. We emerge from this difficult period with a reorganised and improved SSSD Project family of web services. Seppala Kennels, ISA and WCAC now have independent domain name web addresses:
- http://www.seppalakennels.com - Seppala Kennels, original home of the Seppala Siberian Sleddog breed.
- http://www.canadacanines.org - WCAC, the only accredited registry for Seppala Siberian Sleddogs (a very rudimentary site still, but we hope it will soon see some development).
- http://www.seppalas.org - The International Seppala Association for legacy sleddog breeds, primarily Seppalas and Chinooks, including the ISA Online Searchable Pedigree Database.
The familiar SledDogBlog and Sleddog Legacy Online will now be found in a new subdomain, and there are now several other important subdomains in addition to the basic "www" one:
- http://www.seppalasleddogs.com - The SSSD Project's basic informational site: Seppala basics, philosophy, training, feeding, breeding, etc.
- http://news.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - Seppala news and current events -- including SledDogBlog and Sleddog Legacy Online
- http://documents.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - The Project's collection of downloadable documents, slated for early expansion (we plan to add PDF files and MS Word files for basic documents, and perhaps to add one or two recent articles).
- http://galleries.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - Initially containing the original SSSD Photo Gallery and Historic Photos Gallery. (There are plans to add a dedicated photo gallery application and start adding important Project photographic records to it.)
- http://seppala-history.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - The Project's Seppala History pages, presented as an independent website.
- http://siberian-husky-bloodlines.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - Our educational resource covering historic breeders and sample pedigrees -- to our knowledge, the only comprehensive discussion of historic Siberian Husky bloodlines available on the entire Web.
- http://forums.seppalasleddogs.com/phpBB2/index.php - Our private closed forums for Project supporters.
- http://hispana.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - Our small Spanish-language SSSD website for our friends in Spain and Latin America.
- http://franco.seppalasleddogs.com/index.htm - Our new French-language site; still under construction, as yet it has only an index page.
- http://seppalawiki.pbwiki.com - SeppalaWiki, an independent online Seppala knowledge base, still a growing youngster and in need of contributors (anyone who wants to help please ask Jeffrey for the SeppalaWiki password)!
PLEASE, those of you who regularly visit our SSSD Project web services, do the following without delay and without fail! First, CLEAR your browser cookies and cache. (If you are a Windows user, on the top of your Internet Explorer browser menubars where it says "File Edit View Favorites Tools Help," open "Tools - Internet Options" and under "Temporary Internet Files" click on "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files", and "Delete All Offline Content.") That will prevent outdated cookies from causing problems with the new setup. THEN under "Favorites" choose "Organize Favorites" and in the window that opens, select and delete ALL previous SSSD services links. Once you've done that, click on the links above, one by one, and as each successive subdomain opens, select "Add to Favorites" so that you will now have updated, correct links to these sites. If you have any special favourite pages within the sites, check to see whether the links still work; if not, navigate within the site to the pages you want and do "Add to Favorites" for those, too.
If any of you discover that your passwords to the database and the forums no longer work, please contact me by email for new passwords. If anyone discovers links that don't work properly on any of the above sites, please let Jeffrey know so that he can fix them. (I cannot possibly have corrected everything despite heroic efforts.)
Here's hoping that everyone will enjoy and benefit from our newly refurbished web sites and online services!
