Procedures

Welcome to calodges.org!

To request hosting on the calodges.org domain please follow the following procedures:

• Determine among your Lodge that you wish to have a website on the calodges.org domain by a vote of the Lodge at a Stated Meeting and recorded in the minutes.
• Send an email to support@freemason.org requesting this service. Please be sure to include the following items:
  • Lodge name, number, address and phone number
  • Primary administrative contract's name, address, phone number, email address.
  • Primary technical contact's name, address, phone number, email address (if different from the above).
  • Whether the Lodge currently has an existing Internet presence. If so, please provide the URL for that site.
  • The amount of HTML/website experience held by the primary technical contact (i.e. no experience, very little experience, very experienced, expert)
  • And finally, whether you want any email forwarding addresses (using the calodges.org domain). We will provide up to 3 per Lodge.

You will then be contacted by one of the members of our technical support staff who will assist you in taking the next steps.

A directory will be established for you on the calodges.org domain (noxxx) which will include a temporary home page. This directory will be limited to 40MB, which should be plenty of space for you.

If requested, you will also get three separate email forwarding accounts. They are generally in the format:

masterxxx@calodges.org

secretaryxxx@calodges.org

webmasterxxx@calodges.org

You may have those addresses forwarded to any email address of your choosing.

Access to your directory will be via FTP. You can use any HTML editor of your choice. If you do not already have an FTP program, you can get a free copy of FTP Commander at http://www.internet-soft.com.

If you are looking for a free web editing software that will get you started, check out the KompoZer project. It's available for both Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.

You will be free to create any website you wish, as long as it adheres to our policies.