This is a nice site to refer new square dancers to: Lynn’s Student Square Dance Page. Although the dance information is local to Ventura County, California, there are several pages of information that would be useful to any new student. There are also a lot of photos of various dances in Ventura Country. I’m puzzled by Lynn’s ability to have this page on Xoom without Xoom’s advertizing frame at the top. I wonder how she does that.

Lynn has sites all over the web. She has a domain (dance4fun.com), for Lynn’s Square Dance Page, where she has info on clubs in Ventura County. She also offers free email at the dance4fun site (yourname@squaredance.zzn.com). She has a square dance related bulletin board, Square Dance Discussion on Tripod. It’s not active (the last message was posted on January 9).

Square Dancing & Round Dancing – Suite101.com has a poll going on the dress code; so far dressy jeans and shirts for both men and women and no dress code at all are tied at two votes apiece. This site also has a moribund discussion area.

The SquareDancing.com Forum is a little more active, with the dress code issue inciting the most discussion.

I wonder what are the benefits of an online forum vs. a mailing list. Both the square dancers mailing list and the sd-callers mailing list are active, lively discussion forums.

It’s disheartening to find a nice idea for a web site, Class on the Net, and then realize that either it’s not being updated (last info is from May 1999) or the club is no longer active. This is another site for students, with tips and info about what calls were covered at each class. As more and more people get on the web, it seems like a good idea for every club to keep students up-to-date with a special section on their web site.