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'New' ballet.co Welcome to the new look ballet.co; it has been a goodly while in the planning and we hope you like it. The obvious change is the revised design, a big departure from the previous version. We think it will make it easier for you to get about more rapidly and it gives us the space we need to grow with new sections. The layout also means that it is easier to read all the pearls of wisdom. Of course we support the browsers that you would expect. But these are just the surface changes. The key change has been to put performance and review information into easily searchable databases. This sounds pretty boring but it's not! Dotted all round the site you will see hot links that raid these databases (and the postings pile as well) to give you just the information you need. For an example of the power of this, have a look at the first ballets page; try selecting Juliet and following a few links. Or how about following some of the links we have associated with Adventures in Motion Pictures?. Currently we hold details of nearly 500 performances and events and over 260 reviews of performances. We also have over 500 postings, many offering constructive thoughts and observations that you just won't find elsewhere. There are also some that will make you want to make you tear all your hair out as well! The other major change is a move towards a monthly magazine format. This gives us the time and space to develop broader, deeper and more thoughtful pieces on ballet and dance, and we are currently in the process of commissioning articles for the future. We are very pleased with the unique insights we get into the dancer's world from Josephine Jewkes and we look forward to more along similar lines in the future. The monthly magazine is important but that doesn't mean that we have abandoned the immediacy of the weekly update. True it will be smaller but perhaps of greater value we look to keep the performances and reviews updated in something approaching real time. In the past, performance information sometimes took too long to get onto the site; the new approach makes it much simpler to update these details. We will also be encouraging the use of postings as a way of keeping people updated more rapidly. One thing we intend above all others is for ballet.co to reflect what our readers want. Good suggestions are welcome even if we don't always have the time to implement them immediately. In particular, we would like to cover training and schools in more detail and people who can help us on this would be most welcome. Enjoy the new ballet.co ..... and don't forget to download the screensaver! Tally Ho Bruce Marriott
The ballet.co Screensaver What professional site would be complete without a screensaver! Courtesy of Louis we bring you the ballet.co screensaver and its absolutely free. You need to be running Windows 95 and we can deliver it in 2 ways depending on if you have the capability to handle zip files (or not). Zip files are smaller and hence load much quicker, but you need special software to decode them. If you are not sure best to use the larger exe file. Once its on your machine, double click on install.exe, it will tell you the screensaver is installed, then go into the control panel, double click on display and follow your nose to the screensaver section where you should find our ballet one listed. Here are the links to get the screensaver; ballet.co screensaver as an zip file (1132Kb)
These are not small files and might take more than a few minutes to load. The screensaver has been produced using professional software and as such should work on all (windows95) machines. We can't however offer guarantees (though we would be gob-smacked if there are any probs). Enjoy! | ||||||||
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