Recent News

After correcting a few minor issues, the Firefighter Profiles feature is ready for wide release. To manage the profiles, simply log into your Members Area and select Website Management > Profile Management. This will allow you to create profile records and assign which member will have access to update them.

You can also manage Profile Fields and Types under the Field Lists menu in the Members Area. You will want to ensure that you have all of the text and memo fields set before...

After several months of development and testing, our team is pleased to announce our newest feature, Firefighter Profiles. This feature allows a website to portray their bravest to the community and show off the men and women who operate your day-to-day operation. The profiles can be updated within the Members Area by users themselves. Each update will require approval from a website administrator.

The Firefighter Profiles feature supports definable fields, questionnaire, and the ability...

The Firehouse Solutions Team is in the process of moving into a new office. We can now be reached at our new phone number: (301) 475-1900. Our old phone number will continue to automatically forward until the end of the year at which time it will be disconnected. Please take the time to update our contact information. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

We hope that everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!

After significant testing, our team will be performing an upgrade on the e-mail servers beginning October 1, 2008. We are upgrading from SmarterMail 4.3 to SmarterMail 5.5. This process will not result in any loss of information, preferences, or user settings, but it could slighty delay the flow of messages for a brief period while the install is taking place. A server restart is required during the installation process.

SmarterMail 5.5 offers a new optimized interface design, better...

[GoogieSpell]Firehouse Solutions has completed testing and implementation of a new spell checking feature called GoogieSpell. GoogieSpell is an online spell checker powered by Google Labs. It uses a new technology called AJAX and works in all major web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.

The spell checker operates through a dictionary from Google's servers, so it can pick up any mispellings, including names, people, places, and current events. ...

It has been brought to our attention that users are receiving a "Session Expired" message in the Members Area. After further research, we found that this issue is connected to the recent daylight savings time change.

Firehouse Solutions web servers are located in Arizona. Unfortunately, Arizona is one of a few states that does not acknowledge Daylight Savings Time (DST). Therefore, the time change on Sunday morning caused an unanticipated time offset of 1 hour, which broke the session...

LightBox is a new and innovative technology which allows photos to display through an easy-to-use slideshow format. Currently, clicking on thumbnails in a news story or photo gallery results in a browser popup window, which can often be blocked by browsers and ad blocking software. Lightbox avoids using popup windows entirely. Instead, it uses a trendy flash-based system to overlay larger photos on the web page, while darkening the web page itself. Lightbox works in all modern web browsers...

The Firehouse Solutions web team has launched their 100th website into the fire service community, reaching a major milestone that began in 2003. This success can be credited to the hard work and dedication of our web team, the working relationships and trust of our customers, and the support of community citizens and professionals who rely on websites, powered by Firehouse Solutions, for a direct source of news and information.

The family of websites now reaches from coast to coast...

Over the past few months, the Firehouse Solutions Team has been developing an improved Members Area interface. The new interface takes advantage of wider monitor screens (1024x768) and also supports vertical menu navigation. Additionally, the interface includes an advanced timeout warning so that users know when their session is about to expire.

The navigation will be better organized and include a User Menu and Administration Menu. As always, the User Menu will allow members to use...

On Friday, August 3, the Firehouse Solutions Team performed a small upgrade on to the content management system and made some modifications to the security menus within the Members Area.

First of all, you will notice that the content management tool now has the capability to display when a section was last updated and who performed the update.

Additionally, we have fixed two bugs in the content management area:

1) Users may now use special characters in file names and the website...