DanceWeb Search Box now supports search of Dance Organisations and Dance Venues

The DanceWeb search box (on the home page, basic search page and most other pages) has now been enhanced to allow you to search entries for organisations and venues by name. You may key in an organisations name (title), web domain, email address, phone number or the surname of one of the contacts. Similarly dance venue searches can now also be made, using the name of the dance venue (dance location). There are some limitations for privacy and performance reasons, but in general you only need to key part of any of the above; the search uses "wild cards" automatically.

This feature is of low precedence, meaning that it is only activated if DanceWeb fails to find a result using the normal location and dance type or service search mechanism. The organisation search is higher precedence then the venue search. But you can force the new search by prefixing the search term with "org:" for an organisation search, or "ven:" (or "loc:") for a venue search.

Here are some working examples:

Search for the entries for pineapple dance studio organisation:

pineapple

Search for all entries for "Polish Centre" venues:

polish centre

Search for the "Arch 197" venue:

ven:arch 197

Search for organisation entries where ms Reis ian instructor:

org:reis

Try out the new feature on the DanceWeb home page.

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

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