A Message About the Florida Federation Website
"www.floridasquaredance.com"
The Florida Federation website has been "up and running" on a
new platform since mid-March, 2023; has been brought up to date; and
is also now running on a "secure" https:// server !!
Beginning in 1999 Bruce Morgan designed, built and faithfully maintained the website,
but by 2022 he was no longer able to provide support. Content in the website for the
Florida Federation, the Florida Associations, and our Florida Clubs became outdated,
and the webbuilder program that was used to maintain the website had to be replaced.
Thank you Bruce for your many years of service !!
Keith Olds volunteered to head a project to identify a new webbuilder software package,
select a hosting platform, and then redesign and build a new website and move the website
content to the new platform.
Clifford Reiss volunteered to take over support for the website and to work with the
Florida Federation, the Florida Associations, Clubs and our Callers and Cuers to bring the
content up to date and maintain the website while the redesign and rebuilding was taking place.
The Florida Federation website has been moved to and is being hosted on the secure
DANCERgram platform. This platform is supported by both the SCCA/West Coast Square and
Round Dance Association and the Florida Federation.
The Florida Federation URL "www.floridasquaredance.com" has been
redirected to bring you to this interim website. The content in this interim website
has been retrieved from the original Florida Federation website, modified where necessary, and
brought up to date.
Send updates for your Federation, Association, Club and other information, Federation
and Association Event Flyers, and Association newsletters to the
webmaster Clifford Reiss.
eMail: dgramwebmaster@yahoo.com
The Federation, the Associations, and many Clubs also maintain Facebook group pages where
updates are frequently posted. Links to these Facebook pages have been added and prominent
messages posted to remind viewers to also visit Facebook.
Note 1) due to the move to the new web hosting server and because the original HTML code was
generated 20+ years ago some elements of the HTML code are outdated and no longer function properly.
Pages may display random "
" characters when this "old" HTML
code is encountered. Corrections are being made -- but slowly!
Note 2) if you find links between pages that do not work or other content
that is incorrect please bring it to my attention for correction! Thank you. Cliff.
..this page was last updated 01/11/2024...
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A message about web URL addresses and Facebook pages
A number of clubs have or had a web URL address .. an address such as
"www.clubname.com" or ".net" or ".org". In the past the Federation webmaster was handling
the setup and renewal of some of these web addresses in a GoDaddy account.
Some of these web URL addresses may have expired. If by chance no one has
"claimed" and taken over the URL address it would still be available to be reopened. Some other
web URL addresses may be coming up for renewal but unless they are identified, the expiration
date determined, and the owner of the account renews it they will also expire.
If your club or organization has or had a web URL address and needs assistance
maintaining and/or reviving such address I can help. If necessary I would become
the temporary owner of the URL. A web URL costs approximately $22/year to be registered on GoDaddy.
A number of clubs also have Facebook pages. If a club has both a web page and a Facebook page
the sites should reference each other. If the club page is maintained on this Federation website and
there is no link to the Facebook page I will add a link as the Facebook pages are identified.
If your club needs assistance with any of these items contact me:
DANCERgram webmaster Clifford Reiss:
eMail: dgramwebmaster@yahoo.com
or call
(813) 390-1984
..this message was updated 7/31/2023...