Dance Weekend

Users (you!) can now submit your events to the DanceWeekend app on Facebook.  I wanted to make the process as easy as possible so all you need is the link to th event’s Facebook page and the app pulls the rest of the information directly from the Facebook page.  Well, most of it.  After submitting the link, you’ll be taken to a page where you can enter a few more things such as dance-styles, whether there are workshops or comps, etc… but there’s no need to type anything.  Even the event graphic/banner is automatically pulled from Facebook.

I also added some search capabilities to filter through the tons and tons of events you’re all going to submit as soon as you finish reading this!  (Hey, one can dream, right?)  As you would expect, you can search by dance styles (Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues, and West Coast Swing) and also whether the events have social dancing, workshops, and competitions.

I also added an option for separating single-day and multi-day events.  I figure some people might submit smaller one-day events and I don’t want to be all snooty and reject events just because it’s not a full-weekend event.  So what I’m deciding to do is not show those events by default but make them available to users via search.

I’ve also stubbed-in the capability to search by distance from a zip code.  I should have this finished by the end of the week (which means in about three weeks).  So, I don’t know why you’re still here.  Go submit an event!