| 1. What's the menu above the Schedule? We use this for our site navigation, it helps you quickly locate our site content and features. The Buttons: position the cursor on the button name shown below, then click.. "All Events" This is the default, all events and page text are shown, any highlighted search text is un-highlighted. "New Events" Events that have recently been added, changed or canceled are shown and most page text is hidden. This button may be disabled when no events satisfy the criteria in the previous sentence. "Search Events" Opens a local request window where you may enter a simple word or words. The event listing is searched and any events with exactly matching text are displayed, the selected text is highlighted, and non-selected events are hidden. A new search may be started at any time by re-clicking the button. |
| 2. What's in Preferences? This function sets your location for the distance calculator and "My Events" display. You may also display the distance as miles or kilometers. Cookies must be enabled for this to function. If you are at a public computer be aware the cookie is encrypted for your protection and checking "the delete cookie when I end this session" should delete the location cookie when the browser is closed. Please note when using the Opera browser: hit reload when the Preferences page or the Schedule distance calculator does not seem function. |
| 3. Why is my Address not accepted? Yahoo Geocoding calculates the precise Latitude and Longitude when an address is entered on the Preferences page. When the address is rejected, either correct it or remove it. When an address is not entered, the Latitude and Longitude corresponding to the geographical center of your Zip code is used. |
| 4. Why is my Zip Code not accepted? It's not in the zip code table. This site uses a publicly available zip code table that may be slightly out of date. Please e-mail your zip code, city and state. |
| 5. How does the distance calculator work? It computes the great circle (direct as if no roads exist) distance from the your exact street address or geographic center of your zip code location set in MyArnb to the venue's exact address or geographic center of it's zip code location. The calculated distance is only an estimate and driving mileage will likely be higher especially where a water barrier exists such as the Long Island Sound. Driving instructions and a map are available by clicking the "Purple Car" icon associated with each listing. |
| 6. What data are you collecting? Please review our Privacy Policy. |
| 7. Why is the printed schedule different than the listing? This is intentional to make the printed listing easer to read. Most of the non-schedule text is hidden, the weather and map icons are hidden and all text coloring set to black. This is done using Cascading Style Sheets, CSS. |
| 8. What areas are you covering? The World. |
| 9. What resolution and font is best for viewing this page? This page uses a sans-serif font, preferably Arial. Best viewing is 1024x768 or higher. Using 640x480 usually generates horizontal scroll bars and is not recommended. |
| 10. Who are you? My name is Arn Burkhoff and I live in central NJ. I have been doing Cajun and Zydeco dancing since 1994. In my non-dance life I formerly consulted on Web based and/or IBM Mainframe systems. I officially retired in 2007 after ageism prevented me from finding a new assignment. Get more information about me by clicking here. |
| 11. Why are you doing this? Somebody needed to do it and I enjoy serving the Cajun Zydeco dance community. It also helped me learn HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and MySql and more. |
| 12. Does it take much time to do the updates? Using the MySql database and the entry forms makes it a fairly easy task, and since many of the events are entered by our web robot, bands, promoters and users, I no longer do much data entry. However, I've invested about two thousand hours setting up the MySql database, and personally doing the requisite and ongoing PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript programming. |
| 13. Where do you get the updates? A substantial portion our events are gathered by our automated web robot. The robot scans many band schedules on Tuesday and Friday. The remainder is entered by bands, promoters, and readers. |
| 14. Why all the purple and green? The site uses Mardi Gras colors. |
| 15. Are you available to work on my website or mainframe system? Yes, Contact me for a rate quote and click here to view my resume |
| 16. Can I use your schedule technology on my site? Yes, check out the User Guide or Contact me for a more information. |
| 17. Why don't I see events from my area on the schedule? Events are mantained by the bands, promoters and user community. If you maintain an area schedule or want to post events for your area of the world, please signup for posting rights or Contact us for a more information. |
| 18. How do I get a venue’s coordinates onto my GPS? For those of you with a Garmin or TomTom GPS, you may send your device the coordinates for most events on our schedules.
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| 19. Still need an answer, want to report a problem, or request a new feature? Send us an e-mail. |