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| 17April 2007 - I am back at last! We had a wondeful time in Glasgow and now it's back to business. I arrived back home yesterday and have been steadily working my way through over 500 emails. I have listed a small number of dresses today and made a few changes. Keep coming back as I have many more dresses to add and will get them up in the order in which they were received. If you have paid for your dress listing, I am sorry to keep you waiting, I will get your dress listed as soon as I possibly can, thanks for your patience. I also have many, many changes, price reductions, sold signs etc to take care of, I will also get them done asap. 13March 2007 - Important Announcement! Please note that I will be attending the World Championships in Glasgow and will be away from Wednesday, March 21st (Australian time) until Monday, April 16th. During this time I will not be able to update the site. If you have a dress you would like listed before I leave, please send it to me as soon as possible to ensure that it is listed before I depart. Thanks! 12February 2007 - More new pages have been added to the site. Two that I forgot in my January update! and one brand new one. I will start with the brand new one. I am sure that you have noticed that at the bottom of each dress page I have a link to an interesting book or DVD etc, these are linked to Amazon and any purchases made gives a small commission to Dance Again. Amazon have introduced a new scheme which has enabled me to open my own "store" with it's own secure shopping cart and different categories which gives it all a very professional look. If you would like to visit my new store and have a look at the many Irish dance/dance related items that I have added, please click here. I have spent a lot of time searching for items that I think you will like. If you have or find another item that you think would be great in my store, please let me know and I will have a look at adding it. The next new page is my Feis Travel page. I am still working on this one and will add new links as I can. On this page you will find links to sites where you can search for bargain hotel and flight deals and travel information such as the new passport rules for travel between USA and Canada. I hope that you will find this page useful and maybe even find you a bargain for that next out of town or overseas feis. Lastly is my first attempt at a "Dance Again Store". Just before Christmas I opened up a Cafe Press store to try my hand at some cute t-shirts and other items. The personalised TCRG mug proved popular over Christmas along with the "My Other Car is a Gavin" bumper sticker! If you would like to have a look at what I have on offer, please click here. Links to all three new pages can also be found on the main page of the site, to the right of the daily updates, with the other vendors ads. Any feedback on these new pages that you would like to give is always greatly appreciated. Thanks. 28January 2007 - Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I last posted here and there have been a few new pages added to the site in recent months so I thought I had better let you know, just incase you havn't stumbled upon them! Are you addicted to looking at dresses? Can't live without checking the message boards? Wondering how much that dress costs in your currency? All you need is the free Dance Again Toolbar. The toolbar is quick to download and sits at the top of your screen giving you direct links to the dress and message board pages as well as the currency converter and more. If you would like to find out more about the free toolbar, please click here. If you have ever though about selling your dress on ebay, you might be suprised how the ebay fees can add up. Click here to compare ebay fees with Dance Again fees. Last but not least, by popular demand, is the Gavin Doherty page. All of the Gavin Doherty dresses from throughout the site are listed together on one page to make it easy for those searching for one of Gavin's dresses. I did think about also making a Siopa Rince page but when I went through the site, there were over 100 Siopa Rince dresses. This is roughly 12 dresses on each and every page. I figured that if someone was looking for a Siopa Rince dress, they could easily find them on the dress pages. If the demand is there, I will re-consider and will post here if a new page is added. 29 October 2006 - Could everyone who emails me, please add my email addresses ( lisa@dance-again.com and reelyjiggy@ozemail.com.au ) to their address book. As your internet service providers increase their security and try to improve their service to you, they increase their spam blocking features to such an extent that emails from unknown addresses will not be delivered. In the past few weeks I have had several people email me and I am unable to reply to them because my replies are being returned to me as blocked by spam blockers. If you have emailed me and not received a reply, this is probably why. On the same note, if you have a dress listed and have not received any enquiries, this could be one reason why. If your ISP puts suspected spam emails into a folder, please check this folder for emails that are not spam. 8 June 2006, 10.30pm - I just wanted to let everyone know that I am a bit behind at the moment, I have several dresses still to list and lots of price reductions and sold signs to put up but I have run out of time today! It was my daughter Aimie's birthday today ( Happy Birthday Aimie! ) and to make the day extra special one of her teachers gave her some candy which in turn made a piece of her braces pop off her teeth, so I quickly waved 3 hours of my day goodbye in taking her to the Orthodontist! I have also been super busy organising my trip to San Diego, only 17 more sleeps till we leave! I will be back at my computer in the morning and will get the remaining dresses listed and all of the changes made. Sorry for the delay! Goodnight or Good Morning, depending on where you are :0) 12 April 2006 - Put your hard hats on, there are some major renovations about to begin on the dress pages! I will try and do as much behind the scenes as possible to cause the least amount of disruption. Basically what I am going to do is add more pages to each section as well as split up some of the age groups. This will cause almost all of the dresses to change their ID number :0( major headache but I can't put it off any longer. There will eventually be 18 pages of dresses with fewer dresses on each page which will hopefully make the pages load faster for you as well. I am starting at the end with page 11 which will change to page 18, then page 10 and so on. As I change each page, I will contact each dress seller with their new dress number. The age groups most affected are the 10-12 and 13-15 groups, this will now be split into three seperate groups of 10-11, 12-13 and 14-15. For the time being, the 12-13 group will remain empty until people ask me to move their dress. So, if your dress is on the 10-12 (soon to become 10-11) page and you would like it on the 12-13 page, please email me and ask me to move it. Likewise for dresses on the 13-15 (soon to become 14-15) pages. I hope that makes sense! Please note that it could take a week or two to get this all done, so please only email me once, I will reply only when I have moved your dress. Hopefully this won't cause too much confusion. Once I begin the change over, please let me know if you come across any page links that don't work or take you to the wrong page. 05 April 2006 - Hot off the presses!! This is a real "must have" for your dancer ! Brand new custom made silicone wristbands made especially for Dance Again. Only $US4 each. Visit the Other Dance Items page for more details and photos. 19 September 2005 - Please note that I will be away from home attending the Australian Nationals between Monday 26th September and Monday 3rd October and will not be able to add any new dresses during this time. If you are thinking of listing your dress please send it to me as soon as possible to be listed before I go. Any emails received while I am away will be answered as soon as possible after my return. Good luck to all of the Australian dancers at the championships, dance your best and have fun! 10 September 2005 - Phoebe from Siopa Rince has asked me to pass on this message to as many people as possible... Siopa Rince Customers - Please note: Due to a computer virus all incoming e-mails sent from beginning of Aug to date have been lost. If you have sent any correspondence to us by e-mail please forward details again. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding. 14 August 2005 - New dress page 11 added to give another Over 16 page. Page 10 was getting too long with 80 dresses listed and new dresses needing to be added so I have moved some dresses from the bottom of page 10 and you will now find them at the top of page 11, along with new dresses for this age group. 30 June 2005 - A quick note to Vendors, Suppliers, Dressmakers etc. I have re-thought the pricing for my dress page ads and have reduced the prices considerably based on the number of visitors to each page, click here for more info and please email me if you have any questions. Is there anything else you would like to see on Dance Again? Please email me with your ideas and suggestions. I always love to hear from my visitors! 26 June 2005 - Due to the high demand for advertising space on my main home page, I have decided to offer some spaces on my dress pages as they attract the highest number of visitors after the home page. The traffic to each age group varies so I am offering a range of prices depending on the monthly average visitors, prices start at a low $10 per month. If you are interested in advertising on the dress pages, please click here for more information. Good luck to all of the dancers soon to be competing at the North American Nationals. I hope you all have a wonderful time. Are you planning to sell your dress at the NAN's? Why not line up a buyer before you even leave ! List your dress on Dance Again and meet up with potential buyers to try on the dress and finalise your sale. Buyers love this as it saves them shipping costs and they can be prepared with their payment ahead of time. 02 June 2005 - I have just added a new page to the site to help dress buyers. It is a Dress Buyers Q & A and you will find links to it on the dresses main page, FAQ's page and the drop down menu on the home page. 17 May 2005 - I have just fixed up my search box, it hasn't been working for a while but I havn't had time to fix it! Now you can search for dresses by a keyword such as a designer or dressmakers name. Type in Gavin, Siopa Rince etc and you will be given links to all dress ads that mention your key word. I have also added a new Google search bar at the bottom of the home page so you can search for "Irish Dance" or any other topic for that matter. Why not make Dance Again your permanent home page so that you can check to see what dresses have been added and use the search bar for your every day surfing as well. To make Dance Again your home page, just click the button below and everytime you start up your computer Dance Again will automatically appear! 02 May 2005 - Just some housekeeping today. To make sure that your dress is listed as quickly as possible or your email answered promptly, could I please request the following....Please always put a subject on your email, my spam and virus filters will sometimes delete emails without a subject and I will not know that you have emailed me. When sending your dress, please remember the following : 1. Please remember to include the age group you would like you dress listed under. 2. Please do not send me your dress description in all capitol letters as I have to re-type the whole thing. 3. If you are from a metric country, please also include your dress measurements in inches. 4. Don't forget to attach your dress photo! 5. If you send your dress listing from one email address and your paypal payment from another, please let me know so that.I can match the two up. 6. Please sign your name to your emails, just a first name is fine, I hate not having a name to put at the top of my reply to.you :0) 7. Please check your emails at least a few times a week, it is very frustrating for buyers to not receive replies to their.enquiries. 8. Please, please, please let me know when your dress is sold! 01 May 2005 - I have decided to offer something new, I don't know how useful it will be, but you never know unless you try! If you go to my Fees and Charges page you will find another solo dress listing choice in the form of a school discount for multiple listings. Have a look and as always, I am open to any suggestions on how to make it even better. 29April 2005 - A big 'Thankyou' to everyone who searched for my kangaroo signs. All pins have now been claimed. Most of the pins are already on their way and I will send the last few off today. The pins are heading for U.S.A, Canada and the U.K. I hope you all had fun searching for them and maybe came across a few pages on the site you hadn't seen before. 27 April 2005 - Thanks to everyone who has searched for the kangaroo signs ( see 22 April news below ) your pins are on their way to you now! I still have a few pins left for anyone else who would like to enter. Please remember to include your name and address so that I can mail you your pin. Your details will not be saved or used for any other purpose. Thanks . 22 April 2005 - How about a bit of fun? How well do you know the pages of this website? Maybe there are pages you have never been to before, so here's your chance. Kangaroos and Koalas are probably the best known native animals of Australia. I live in the capitol city of Australia, Canberra. Here in Canberra we are very lucky to have many wild Kangaroos. I see them every day and never get tired of looking at them. So I have ten Kangaroo and ten Koala, 24carat gold plated pins to give away to the first twenty people who email me with the location of four Kangaroo road signs, they are placed on four different pages of this website, it is a yellow sign with a black Kangaroo, a common sign on the roads here in my country. Just email me with the names of the 4 pages where the signs are located, along with your name and address and I will mail you a pin, limit of one pin per household. There are no other conditions and I will send the pins anywhere in the world. Good luck, happy searching! 10 April 2005 - Well we are back from Ireland, what a wonderful time we had. It was great to meet up with so many people whom I had previously only known via email. So it's back to the real world now! You will have noticed lots of new dresses being added since my return and lots of sold signs going up. I am also now advertising Dance Again in Irish Dancing magazine. At this stage I have committed to four issues which also includes banner ads on the IDM website and in their online newsletter. I am hoping that this will bring lots of new visitors to the site, not only increasing the number of dresses being listed but also lots of new buyers! If this is your first visit to the site, welcome! I hope that you will add Dance Again to your favourites and come back often. If you are having trouble finding something on the site, please click on the site map link at the top of the home page or email me, I am happy to help. 17 February 2005 - You no doubt will have noticed my new home page, I hope you like it, please let me know if there are any problems with any of the links etc. Over the comming weeks I will be making changes to all of the other pages so they all match each other. It will be a slow process so please bear with me! |
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