There’s now an online square dancing chat forum at Romney Tannehill’s website…I think. It was announced on the sd-callers mailing list and I tried to check it out…but nothing shows up using Internet Explorer 5.0 on a Macintosh. Looks like yet another PC-centric site. Along with having a chat room that I can’t access, he also has some annoying java applet where a fairly lengthy text message appears one word at a time…in a word, irritating. He also links to other web sites, but those sites show up in enclosed in Romney’s frames. I hate that. Especially when the one-word-at-a-time message seems to imply that the links don’t come up in a Romney frame.

How about a square dance club named “Guns n’ Garters” including a logo with a gun inserted into a garter. Gotta wonder sometimes… but this site led to another site that compiles info for dances around Southern California and also has a nice URL: squaredancecentral.

The sausage thing seems to be a spreading meme. I used it (along with eggs) at an ECR dance. The next weekend, Anne and Tim workshop it in Vancouver at Weave the Rain. Where will it pop up next?

This has absolutely nothing to do with square dancing, but I think it’s an interesting analysis of what makes a good business website, and could also be relevant to anyone involved in building websites that keep people coming back. This site won an award from inc.com, a small business website. The main factors that interested the judges were the interactivity and sense of community built by the website.