The MyCouncillor website server suffered a period of downtime over the middle of the day today. This was as a result of a SPAM problem at the site's hosting agency. 

We think everything is working again now, but please report any issues as soon as you notice them. 

Many thanks. 

A few people have asked us recently about changing the imprint on their MyCouncillor website to allow them to include their agent's contact details.

At the moment the imprint automatically takes details from the councillor or candidate's contact details.  We aren't able to alter this at present, however we are currently in discussions with the company that looks after the design side of the MyCouncillor system to change this.  We hope to be able to offer a more flexible way of selecting your imprint soon.

In the meantime however, although the current imprint on MyCouncillor sites do not necessarily follow best practice, they are legal.  So there is no need to worry about breaking the law.

Apologies but we are experiencing a prolonged problem with the myCouncillor server today, Thursday 12 November 2009. 

The system appeared to go down in the early hours of the morning, we restarted this at the start of the working day, but it went down again almost immediately. Technical staff are working on this now and we hope to be able to have it sorted imminently. 

Apologies...

In response to requests from a number of members we've launched two alternate domains for myCouncillor sites: 

focusteam.org.uk 

4mp.org.uk 

We've had a number of requests from people who were council candidates, and didn't want to use the myCouncillor.org.uk internet domain name before getting elected - focusteam.org.uk is for you!

Secondly we've noticed a number of our members using their sites as a simple site for a parliamentary candidate - so 4mp.org.uk is for you. 

All the domains are interchangeable and work at the same time

so: richardbaum.mycouncillor.org.uk; richardbaum.focusteam.org.uk and richardbaum.4mp.org.uk all go to the same place - it is just a different address for you to advertise on Focus leaflets, emails.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you need to know more.

As many MyCouncillor users will be aware, we have had ongoing problems since the switch to the new server last week.  To resolve this once and for all, our internet company are switching to a more reliable server.

Unfortunately this will mean that all users will be "locked out" of their sites for the duration of the switch, to make sure that it is a complete copy of the site that it moved across.

We are hoping that this switch will be completed by tea time tonight.  We appreciate this has been frustrating for everyone concerned, but we are expecting the latest glitches to be fully ironed out before tomorrow morning.

If you are still suffering technical difficulties tomorrow, then please email Anders Hanson at anders.hanson@aldc.org