Frequently Asked Questions

Please tell me about it! This is a huge project for doing in spare time, so it is completly natural that there are still some bugs. I would be very glad if you tell about it, if you find an error. I also like to know about ideas and suggestions you have.
When you write me a feedback, please keep the following points in mind:

• I am a human being - please write me in a friendly style...
• Describe your problem as specific as possible:
  • Mention at what time you started to surf around on the Dancers Directory
  • and what you did before the specific error happend
  • If you know of a workaround, please tell me
  • is it a very anoying error, or just small spelling error?
• If you have a suggestion, please tell me why I should implement it and how important/urgent it is for you.
• If you tell me about additional dance categories or dance styles, keep in mind, that I might not know that specific dance. If it is a category: please tell me why you think it is a category and what dance styles belong to that category. If it is a dance style you want to add, please give me a short description of the style.

The easiest way to update your entry is the following:

1. go to the Update Page at http://www.dancers.org/update.php3
2. if you did not authenticate yourself before, you will get presented a login page where you should enter your username and password.
   In case you forgot your them, you can get them back on the Forgot Password Page.
3. you will come to the update page, where you can choose what you want to change

• In the personal section: make sure you define at least your Sex , your Country and your Birthdate.
• In the dance section you can add dance categories that are appropriate to you. Some categories have a selection of different dance styles.
• If you do not find your dance category or your dance style and you think it should get added: please get in contact with me and describe the stlye you would like to see.

The logic of the search engine looks in the whole entry for the word you typed in the query field. So if you search for 'tim' you will also find people that wrote in the dancelevel comment 'my timing is good'.

To improve your searchresults try to use the following keysigns:

• put a + in front of a word to require it
• put a - in front of a word to disallow it
• put a ; in front of a word to allow only entries that have words that start with that word
• put several words in " to group them together

• 'ed' finds 687 entries
• '+ed' finds also 687 entries
• 'ed usa' finds 807 entries (all ed's and all usa's)
• '+ed +usa' finds 269 entries (only ed's that have also usa)
• '+;ed +usa' finds 10 entries (only words that start with ed and the entry has usa)

When the Dancers Directory started we showed all the email addresses. Unfortunatly several people took that as an open invitation for copying this addresses and using them in their mailings.
I don't like it if my email suddenly appears in a mailinglist and I am sure the majority of the Dancers Directory members also don't like that. That is why I changed the way how you can get in contact with other dancers.

To find out the email address:

1. Find the person in the Dancers Directory
2. Click on 'Write a Message!'
3. Write your Getting-in-contact message
4. if the dancers email address was wrong, you might get a feedback from a mailserver.
5. if the email arrived, the person can answer you in a normal way and you will have the email address.