Urls in Community News Items Now Automatically Converted to Links

When you add a Community News item to DanceWeb, the editor now automatically attempts to detect links to web pages, and email addresses, and converts them into active links. When a user views your Community News Item page, they only have to click on the link to visit the referenced website or web page, or send an email.

How to Write Links

For links to be recognised, they must start with a space then "http", "https" or "www", or have the structure of an email (e.g. with an @ sign within them). The links may be embedded within sentences, and optionally followed by appropriate punctuation.

Examples of such links are:

www.mywebsite.co.uk
www.mywebsite.co.uk/classes
www.mywebsite.co.uk/?q=this&a=that
http://mywebsite.co.uk
https://mywebsite.co.uk
info@mywebsite.co.uk

How Links Are Displayed

For brevity, links to page are displayed without the http:// or https:// prefixes, and without any optional querystring. However, when the user hovers over the link, the full link (url) is displayed in the tooltip.

Submitting a Community News Item

Any registered user may submit news items. See:

http://www.danceweb.co.uk/help/submitnews.aspx

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

Calendars Now Show Dated Community News Items

The home page and full page calendars have now been enhanced to show entries made in the Community News section, when those entries have a date associated with them. This means that such news items now function more like conventions "Events".

Calendar Page:

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

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

New Feature: Add your own Dance News Items

DanceWeb now allows all registered users to very easily add their own News Items! The steps to add a basic news item are only slightly more complicated than posting an email; you just need a to provide a title, and paste in your news copy text. And for more advanced users, you can add dozens of other useful fields, including pre-defined and user-defined tags, as well as links to images, multi-media links and website links.

Once an item is posted, it will appear on several pages on the DanceWeb site, in an RSS feed, and also be posted in a nightly summary to the DanceWeb News Blog on Blogger. So your news item will be heavily publicised!

To start posting your own news items, read the Help page here:
News Submission Help Page

The summary of news headlines is displayed near the top right of the DanceWeb home page: DanceWeb Home Page

The current RSS Feed of News Items is here: RSS Feed

The Blog of News Items is here: Blog

John Walton
Webmaster
DanceWeb