mycouncillor.org.uk is a website platform for Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners provided by the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors (ALDC).
The system provides free website for ALDC members:
- eight different templates
- add your own pages
- add news stories
- add photos, videos, clipart
- manage your own links, categories and archives
- websites work for Councillors or campaigners/candidates
- share content with other ward colleagues or across your whole council group
Apply for a site
Sites are available free of charge to members of ALDC. You can apply by filling in the Online Registration Form or download a registration form here. If you are not a member of ALDC you can join here.
Technical Support
Download a current MyCouncillor manual here.
Just to let all MyCouncillors know about an important Server Move for the MyCouncilor system which will take place on Monday 3 November 2008.
As you will be aware we have been reaching the limit on capacity at the existing shared server that the MyCouncillor sites reside on, so have invested in a dedicated server for ALDC. This will give us vastly increased capacity for your websites and avoid any similar problems in the future.
We have already copied the whole system to the server and tested it, but on Monday we need to make the changeover.
What this means for you
- From Monday morning you will not be able to post new material on your websites for a short period (the system will not let you). This will allow us to take an up-to-date copy of your websites and move it to the new server.
- At the same time we will “tell the internet” where the websites are now hosted. This normally takes effect within the same day and after that happens you will straight away be able to post to your website (and the system will let you do this). The longest that it can take for a new address to filter around the world wide web is 48 hours, but its most likely that the change will happen for you on Monday.
- Visitors to your website will notice no difference. They will be able to visit the site throughout the process - the only difference is that you won’t be able to add new material.
- Site users who “point” another website address (e.g. joeblogs.org.uk) to their site need to do nothing, your address will automatically point to the new server.
- The small number of features that have been temporarily disabled (in particular ward sharing) will then be swiched back on again and we’re back to normal!
Hope this is OK with everyone, it shouldn’t cause too much inconveninece. We’ve deliverately chosen a Monday morning as this is probably a quite time for most people.
If anyone has any problems as the process happens please do let us know straight away.
Many thanks
Tim Pickstone and David Ball - ALDC.
