All the websites are now back online. There are still a few issues to resolve and a few more features to add (see below) -- if you find other problems please let me know. There are a number of major changes, including:

• New Jitsu Toronto site (http://www.jitsutoronto.com).
• New menu (hopefully easier to navigate).
• Updated Gallery software which adds a load of new features such as tags, easier uploading of photos, ...
• New private messaging feature (kind of like e-mail but without displaying email addresses). This is available to registered members. The contact pages for users have been removed.
• New "Recent Content" block.
• New "Tags Cloud" block which uses text size to show the most frequently used tags.
• Changed the Jitsu Site selection process. This will be a much easier "One Site" or "All Sites" selection. Still to do.

All the regional Jitsu Canada websites will be unavailable this weekend (31st March to 1st April) to allow for some major updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Welcome to the new regional Jitsu Canada websites. For those of you familiar with the Jitsu Ottawa site there are many similarities -- you can add photos, add forum topics, add other pages, but there are some new goodies too:

• Simpler menu structure
• New "View Info From:" block -- more on that below

Also there is some new material on the site, such as:

• Detailed kata descriptions
• Some descriptions and photos of katame-waza

Go to "Jiu Jitsu Info" on the menu to view this info. Any registered user can add their own favourite techniques to this info.

By request, Yoshie's user album is now only visible when you log in. So if you want to see photos of the Jitsu socials you need to log in. If you do not have an account it's easy to get one, just click "Create new account" at the side.

There have been some major updates the the website. These include:

• Photo Gallery -- About 100 movies and photos have been put on the site, with techniques, courses, social events, and some fun photos (like Brent surfing). To play the movies you will need Quicktime 7 -- if you have a recent version of iTunes you already have it. You can also add photos and movies -- here's how. Please do!
• Jitsu Canada Events -- A block with the Jitsu Canada events is shown on the right, so you have no excuse to forget any. This will be updated as needed. Click on any of them for details. If you have iCal or Firefox (Calendar-extension) you can click the icon and you will have a calendar that will automatically update when there are changes.
• RSS Feeds -- A new block on the right lists a few of the important RSS feeds, so you can automatically get updates on what is happening. Click "What is this?" if you have no idea what this is all about.

Hopefully it all works, but let me know if there are any problems.