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Hi
My name is Ian McKenzie. I am the bloke who has his picture in the left hand margin on each page of this site.
I thought I would say a few words about how this site came into being, and what I have planned for it.
If you are at all like me and passionate about any subject at all, you will try to find out all that you can about it.
As a former Health and Physical Education Teacher, and an Exercise Physiologist in Cardiac Rehabilitation programs, I have always had an interest in enjoyable Physical Activity. For example, I played basketball and veterans Rugby well into my forties. But now in my more senior years, I enjoy more gentle physical activities. And the number one for me these days is dance.
A couple of years ago I was regularly in the Gold Coast area and had a few favourite dance venues down there. Now, I am more frequently in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. But still visit the Gold Coast. I am in Ipswich and Logan city every week also.
The Internet is a great source of information, but one can waste many hours trying to find the information required. Sure, it is all there if you look hard enough, but not always as accessible as you would like.
Personally, I have over the last few years spent many hours finding, or trying to find dance classes, dance teachers or dance venues in certain areas at certain times.
I have found them, but thought how great it would be if there was a directory of them all at the one place.
Well, here it is.
I do hope you will find this site as useful as I think you will.
I am open to any ideas or suggestions. Let me know what you think. More importantly, be sure to tell all of your dancing friends about this site. The more it grows, the more useful it will be.
I have allowed for heaps of Disk Space and Bandwith on my Server’s computer for this site. So it can grow like topsy. It can have thousands of pages and thousands of daily hits and still have greater than 99.9% Uptime - guaranteed.
Now, it so happens that I have a domain name registration and web hosting business. I also have this beaut program called “Quick Blog”. As you are probably aware, a Blog is a sort of on-line journal. If you have a “Quick Blog”, you can post information on your Quick Blog site from any computer anywhere that is connected to the internet.
An example of the free hosted web site and blog site I prepared is here: www.AADES.biz is the web site and http://ppablog.AADES.biz is the Blog site. The hosting cost is covered by the strip of content related Google ads at the top of each page of the web site and the blog site. As you can see, these ads are not intrusive at all. AADES is an acronmyn for the Australasian Association of Distance Education Schools. My company Professional Performance Australia is one of AADES business sponsors for their National conference in Brisbane later this year. I built this web site and blog site in support of the delegates and the conference.
I offer this free hosting and free Quick Blog site to anyone who purchases a domain name from Ian McKenzie’s Domains.
This template was actually designed for another business to publish a web site and a blog site to support their business at no charge to them. It was however, not wanted.
Well, that one unwanted web site has grown into a suite of thirteen web sites regarding dancing. They are all available here.
I am investigating appropriate software which I can incorporate into twelve of those thirteen sites where people can discuss on the web any aspect of dance, dance teachers and dance venues that they wish.
By making information available on dance in your geographic area, you should be able to make better informed decisions.
I welcome any suggestions you may have that may make any of these sites more useful. Send me an email by clicking on the email link.
If you have read this and you know of any dance teachers, dance studios, dance clubs, dance bands or other dance venues that are not listed here, I would really appreciate your letting them know about this site and its companion sites, so they can get the information to me for me to list.
It is currently the last week in April, 2007. I have not had the chance to contact very many dance teachers etc., as yet, but with those I have, the response has been fantastic. thanks very much
Ian McKenzie
P.S.
There are currently close to one hundred million domain names for web sites that are currently registered with the International registering body ICANN. But, there are billions more that can be registered. Anyone anywhere, who would like to cover the cost of registering any available domain name and preparing a web site in support of any one of my sites, would be most welcome. It is important however that you give a link from the site you build back to one of my sites. The major search engines like Google use back links to sites as an important part of their algorithms for deciding rankings. “Google” was originally called “Backrub” by the two young men that developed it, because of the search engine’s unique ability to analyze back links going to a site.
Well, OK, I can dream.
A satisfactory alternative would be to give a link from your existing web site back to this one, (or one of this site’s companion sites). I will certainly be happy to reciprocate with a back link to your site from the listing you place with me. It will be a WIN/WIN situation for both of us.
Ian McKenzie
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