Using This Site

The page About Dance Advantage offers details about how I hope this site will be utilized by dance students, teachers, and parents.

This is a tutorial on making the most of this site.

Recommended Resources

These are paid advertisements of products and services directly related to dance and dance education. The advertisements at Dance Advantage are not randomly or keyword generated but carefully selected to sponsor the existence of this site and its content. I have used or reviewed the products and feel comfortable recommending them to you. When you click  or make purchases from these and other affiliated sites, you are supporting Dance Advantage. For more, please review DA’s disclosure statement.

Subscriptions:

There are two ways that you can receive updates to this blog automatically. This saves the time of having to check the blog for updates.

1. Subscribe using a reader. If you aren’t sure what a reader is there are some links on the Home page to help you out. If you read a lot of blogs (or want to) this a great way to keep track of them all. Google Reader is a great free service. I use it!
2. Sign up to receive newsletter e-mails that send updates to your inbox. By clicking here you can sign up to receive updates, as well as Nichelle’s Newsflash, a monthly newsletter that keeps you updated on everything happening behind the scenes, offers advance notice of giveaways and other happenings on the blog, and more. You’ll never miss another article, tip, or resource!

Commenting

Unlike regular websites, blogs are interactive! Commenting on a post is a wonderful way to build a community of readers because visitors or subscribers to the site can share ideas, ask questions, and even disagree with what I’ve written. I invite your thoughts and suggestions! So, please take a moment and comment on what you’ve read.

Don’t want to miss a comment? You can subscribe to the feed by clicking  Comments at the very top of the site. This will add the feed to your reader (see subscribing details above).

How to comment — If you are reading an article, the comment field will be at the very bottom, look for “Speak Your Mind.” If there are already comments on the post, they will appear above the field. If your comments are not related to a post, you can always Contact me directly.

**PLEASE NOTE** I will delete any comment that does not relate to the article, or contains inappropriate, unnecessarily degrading, or inflammatory language. As some of my readers are young people, I ask all those commenting to conduct themselves in a suitable manner. I will not cater to those who cannot play nice!

Navigating:

• Archives: Here you can look up posts by month and by category, and see all pages and 50 most recent posts.
• Resources: Links, DA’s Amazon Store, and a great place to find products and services that have been reviewed here on Dance Advantage.
• Blogview: One of the great things about a weblog, or blog, is that it features information that is constantly updated, unlike “static” web pages. On Dance Advantage new articles, tips, and musings are added frequently in chronological order with the newest posts first. If you’d like to view the blog in this order, see the Blogview.
• Subnavigation Bar = Categories: This is an excellent way to find what you are looking for or browse posts. Most are self-explanatory but hovering your mouse over the title will display a more in-depth description of what the category contains as well as reveal any subcategories.

Dance Advantage is written for dance students, teachers, and parents. Therefore, I have placed YOUR categories directly on the home page. Each box displays the most recent posts in that category. To discover more, simply click on ‘Read more posts…’ at the bottom of the box. Click on the post title to read the entire article

Show Some Love

If you like the blog, I encourage you use Share This Post (below each article) or the bit Retweet button at the top. These help spread the word, growing a community of readers.

A Note on Copyright

All articles on this blog are protected under copyright laws. Please Do Not re-publish articles on your website or elsewhere without my permission! If you would like to share a post or the site with others on your website, the best way to do so is with a link. This gives me credit for the work I’ve put into the posts and allows people to discover for themselves the value of what is offered here. If you have questions about how to appropriately link to the blog, please feel free to contact me.

Other Stuff

• Recent Posts – Pretty much what it sounds like. Recent posts are a quick way to look at titles of the most recently posted articles. For a sampling of some of our best posts, check out TMI (too much information), Get Me Started!
• Ten Questions Survey – Tell me a bit about you, how you got here, and what you’d like to see on the blog. Just a simple way to communicate and help me improve the blog!
• What I’m Reading – I read a lot of blogs! This is where I share other articles and posts that I think may interest my readers. This is a fast way to find some other great content online. If you don’t want to go to the site all the time, follow me on Twitter! Everything I share is posted as a “tweet.”
• News & Reviews – I also write about and review dance, primarily in Houston, TX where I am based. Even if you are not in Houston, you can read about some of the exciting works being performed and created here and elsewhere in the dance world.
• DA Blog Stars – Just the best dance education blogs around…!
• Socialize – DA is on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace (plus just about every dance network available). I share lots of additional links and information that never makes it to the blog. I interact with fans and ask or answer questions. It’s a great way to get to know me, learn, and well… socialize! Be sure to scroll down to the website footer for more social networking bling. See what others have said about Dance Advantage on Twitter here.
• Dance Advantage Interactive – This is Dance Advantage’s own social network – a community for dancers, dance teachers, parents, and enthusiasts to interact. Think facebook for dancers. Join Now!

I hope this tour was helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a reply below or contact me… psst! check the navigation bar