Browse By Venue Name Added to DanceWeb

DanceWeb now allows you to browse the directory of Venues stored in the database. So if you want to see all dance classes, dance socials or dance lessons held at a specific venue, such as 'Village Hall, My Village', you can now browse the A-Z directory. You can also browse for shop and other retailer names. You can omit any "The" prefix; the browse feature adds this as necessary.

Start here: Browse Venues

John Walton
Webmaster
DanceWeb

Event Calendar Added to DanceWeb Home Page

DanceWeb has supported dated Dance Events for many years; we have now added to the home page a simple to use Calendar of events for the next six weeks. If you are in a subsite (Linedance or Salsa etc) then only the events for that genre are displayed. A yellow cell is visible if there are any events on a specific day; just run your mouse over the cell, and a drop-list list appears, with a summary of each event. Click on any item in the list, and the full details are shown in a new window. The initial display is of the events for the next six weeks, but by clicking on the >> symbols in the header, you can page through to the next six-week block.

Note to Event Organisers: When you add an event to DanceWeb, it is not just displayed in the new home page Calendar! It is also shown in:

1. The home page block of "New Dance Events".
2. The News Page of "New Dance Events".
3. The RSS Feed of "New Dance Events".
4. The Blog of New Content.
5. The DanceWeb Mapplet
6. Any search that is relevant to event dance activity.

John Walton
Webmaster
DanceWeb

DanceWeb Application on Facebook now available

DanceWeb has now been integrated with Facebook, and a beta "DanceWeb Application" is now available to add to any Facebook account. It enables sharing of "where you dance" with your Facebook friends.

Initially, the application provides two main features:

1) While on the DanceWeb site, and viewing any search / browse results page, you will now see a Facebook icon at the end of every venue and class entry. If you click on the icon, a database stored within Facebook will register that you dance at that venue or class.

2) For your friends on Facebook, after they have installed the "DanceWeb on Facebook" application, it will show to them where you dance, with links to DanceWeb for the full details.

Please give it a try and encourage your dancing friends to do the same. When in Facebook, you can find DanceWeb in the Applications Catalogue. You can also find it directly here:

http://apps.facebook.com/danceweb/

Help File:
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/help/facebook.htm

Best Regards, John
http://www.danceweb.co.uk

Search with New Location can now be started from Results Page

If you perform a normal location-based search on DanceWeb for a dance class or dance service etc, the results are displayed in detail below a map with pins to indicate the venues. A new feature has been added such that if you click on the map (other than on a pin), a new search will be started, centred at the point that you clicked. All other filtering will remain unchanged. You can first scroll the map (with mouse drag) if you need to change the location significantly.

If you wish to start a totally new search, you can still use the search box at the top of the page.

John H. Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk

New Dancewear and Fashion Stores added to DanceWeb Shopping Mall

Be Cool on and off the Dance floor with fashions from new DanceWeb stores:

Visit Designer Pitstop for Urban Designer Clothing for Men & Women: Clubwear, Dancewear, Jackets, Shirts, Swimwear, Tops, Tees, Skirts, Trousers, Jewellery & Accessories.

Visit Goddiva Celebrity Fashion for Celebrity Fashions, Corsets, Dancewear, Day Dresses, Holidaywear, Maxi Dresses, NewStar, Party & Prom, Sale Items and Tops.

While shopping, why not visit existing related stores:

EBay for bargains in Dancewear, Danceshoes, Dance Footwear, Costumes and Dance Accessories.

HQ Hair & Beauty for Haircare, Skincare, Makeup, Fragrance, For Men, Bath, Body, Accessories & Hair Electricals.

All other DanceWeb stores are listed here.

John H. Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/

Search now Available from Most DanceWeb Pages

A simple search box has now been added to the standard DanceWeb page header block, so that you can now search directly from most pages. This includes the search results page, so you can easily start a new search.

We have also added "active crumb trail", so on most pages you can now see the menu hierarchy above the current page, and easily go back up the hierarchy to a less specific page.

The standard page header block has been simplified, and a larger font used, with longer page titles, making the page content clearer.

The search has been made more forgiving, only requiring a minimum of a location, dance type or product/service to be keyed.

John H. Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/

Glossary of Dance Styles added, with Videos

With assistance from Wikipedia, the DanceWeb library has now been significantly extended with the addition of pages describing popular dance styles, and their history. In addition each page has a video bar allowing you to very easily view examples of the dance style. You can also link directly to the DanceWeb video page, to search for even more examples, or the most popular or latest dance videos.

Start here for the index of dance styles:

http://www.danceweb.co.uk/sitemap/?menuitem=6.2

John Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/

New: DanceWeb Content Blogs Created

Visit the new DanceWeb Content Blogs for a diary and archive of all new and updated entries on DanceWeb, including Dance Classes, Events, Courses and Services. The posts to the Blogs are fully automatic and made at he end of each day. They are extensively labelled (tagged), so you can browse the Blogs by Event Date (year / month), Event Type (Workshop, Festival etc), Dance Types, County / State / Province, or Service Type. There are separate Blogs for each country supported, currently as follows:

Canada: http://dancewebcanada.blogspot.com/
Ireland: http://dancewebireland.blogspot.com/
UK: http://dancewebuk.blogspot.com/
USA: http://dancewebusa.blogspot.com/

John Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/

Free Dance Class Video on DanceWeb Videos Page

DanceWeb now displays a free instructional dance video on the Videos page, near the top right. This video will normally be related to the content of the page, or the dance subsite (Ballet, Ballroom, Cool, Irish, Jive, Line, Oriental, Salsa, Stage, Tango or Tap). The videos are supplied by YouTube.

The videos page is here:

http://www.danceweb.co.uk/videos/

John Walton
Webmaster
http://www.danceweb.co.uk/