New Events Page and other Web Updates
I’m sure that no one else cares nearly as much as I do about each and every little thing I do to the website, but I like to keep folk in the loop.
You can see our new events page layout now. We have a lot of events coming up in the next couple of months, and now they are displayed in style. Remember, if you are hosting a trans friendly event, we are more than happy to advertise it for you on our website.
The other addition to the website in the last couple of days, is the Legal Information section. There’s not much there yet, but there is a couple of bits of legislation that are handy for people that are changing their name, or sex documentation.
I think I’m finally getting the hang of this website biz.
Comment Function Working Again
Hi everyone,
I got a bit curious earlier today as to why I hadn’t had anyone comment on the A Gender Agenda blog since I upgraded the Wordpress software to the latest version. I had checked just after the upgrade, and I was able to post comments fine, logged in as the administrator, but I hadn’t checked if regular users could add comments!
It seems that the comment function has been broken for about 2 weeks. Its fixed now though, so if you had something to say, and it had disappeared into oblivion, try posting it again, and I should get it!
New Website Domain FAQ
A Gender Agenda Logo
A while ago Peter and I were on a radio show and discovered to our chagrin that our website address is almost impossible to communicate clearly verbally! We painfully spelled out our email addresses and the web address, several times…. A-G-E-N-D-E-R-A-G-E-N-D-A-DOT-O-R-G-DOT-A-U…
After the radio show, we decided that we should probably change our website. We were a little concerned that changing the domain might mean changing the name of our organisation, and we are rather fond of our name. Eventually though, we came up with some domains that were available, but wouldn’t require us to change our organisations name, and then narrowed it down to one that we liked most.
The other night we switched our domain over to www.GenderRights.org.au , and after much pain and grief, I managed to get the website migrated across, and working, and set up some magical things called ‘301 redirects’, so that all of our visitors would be able to find us again.
However, this momentus change has lead to a few ‘frequently asked questions’, so I’m taking this opportunity to answer them now.
Q: Does this mean you are changing the organisations name from A Gender Agenda?
A: No, we’re just changing the domain. Our slogan is ‘Gender Rights are Human Rights’, so Gender Rights fits as a domain name, without us changing our organisations name.
Q: Does this mean that A Gender Agenda is going national?
A: We’ve only changed our domain name, not our direction or mission. A Gender Agenda is a rapidly growing organisation, and we are very active locally in the ACT, but we are far too small and over worked to pull off any kind of national organisation (Though the question is deeply flattering every time its asked!). We’d love to go national one day, but really can’t right now.
Q: Oh no! I wont be able to find your website now!
A: Chill. The old address will automatically redirect you to the new website. Once you’ve been redirected, just bookmark the new site, and delete the old bookmark. The redirect will work for about a year, before the old domain goes offline.
If you have a link to us on your website, changing it over to the new domain as soon as possible would be most appreciated.
Q: I’m having trouble getting to a page I had bookmarked. It redirects me to the new site, and then it gives me a ‘404 Page Not Found’ error!
A: Unfortunately I’m learning as I go with this website biz, and I have lost a few pages in the migration and upgrade (not that I’m exactly sure *how* that happened). If you had a page directly bookmarked, or click on a link in google, and it takes you to a 404 error, go to the home page, and try navigating manually through the website to where the page logically should be. If you can’t find it, and its important, email me at ryan@genderrights.org.au and I’ll try to find the info for you.
Q: What about the A Gender Agenda email list I’m subscribed to?
A: The email lists will also be migrated to the new domain over the coming week. You’ll be notified once that has happened, so don’t worry too much about it.
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