to our news site!

Visitors and contributors alike should find this new design easy to use and navigate.

It has many new features, one being that all is easily accessable from one location. If you notice something that seems wrong, please click on Contact or send an email to: webmaster at cfsw.us (Formatted to make spamming hard.)

Please note that the new name is cfsw.us but you can also reach us via citizensforsafewater.com. The old name aquasafe.us will only work for the next year.

We are excited over the new format which is designed to make it easy to add content so that we can keep you up to date on what is going on. There has actually been a number of improvements which may not have been obvious to all. Some changes are still to come, and you may notice pages being reorganized to be easier to reach, as we continue improving it.

Here you will be able to easily keep the finger on the water pulse, so to speak.

You are also welcome to add articles and comments aligned with our cause. Simply click on the Contact button. (Please include notes on how your contact information should be used.)

There are a few buttons in the middle sections which aides your navigation back to the front page, to subscribe to updates via a system called Really Simple Syndication, or RSS. The way RSS works is that you usually right click on it and if you have the ability to use RSS a menu option will appear that lets you add a subscription.

There is the contact button to send us email and a login button for contributors.

You will notice that the articles are sorted into three columns. The left one is the President’s column, in the middle you have news from FAN (Fluoride Action Network, the national anti Fluoride group), while in the right column you have local Pinellas County news, as well as international and other water related news.

Each column is updated from the top, so the oldest article is at the bottom. This way you will always find the latest and greatest right at the top.

On the blue insert at the right edge you will find a list of the Last ten articles. Following that are links to other Pages that goes more in depth covering various areas. Next you have Categories of news that are currently in use. So you could follow for example only FAN news. The Archives lets you browse things older than a month, and subsequently not listed on the front page. (We are still sorting out a bug which makes some pages appear more than once so please bare with use.)

Other Links points to pages not directly on this news site. This is where you will find our discussion list, and other sites. Books that we recommend comes next, and at the very end are some copyright notes.

There is a final note related to browsing these pages. Some of you may not know, but the computer program you are using to read this page on the Internet is called a browser, as it allows you to browse the Internet. There are different browsers made by different companies. Internet Explorer for example is made by the same company that makes Windows 2000 and XP, to name the two latest.

There are others like Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera. These are browsers that actually follow the Internet standards a bit cleaner than Internet Explorer has been known to do.

What this means to you is that this site has been designed not according to any particular browser but according to the international standards that dictates the rules for how to build web pages. If you are using Internet Explorer, you will notice a big space between the head if the web page and the articles below it. This is artificially created by Internet Explorer. There is hope that when Microsoft releases their next version called Vista they will have brought I.E. more into compliance.

Meanwhile there are really good reasons to install Firefox as a replacement to I.E. Firefox is a more secure browser less prone to become a “backdoor” (allowing others to take over your computer remotely), it also blocks viruses, spywareand popup ads. Firefox is also easier to use and offers more flexibility. Like for example tabbed browsing. It can be downloaded for free at http://getfirefox.com.