Website woes

[mekyria]

I have grossly neglected my websites in the past year(s), due to being Career Woman and all that. I did a quick update round, but it appears that the free wordpress.com websites have disappeared because I can't access them after I log in. The website states that ' I haven't gotten a blog yet, start here!'. Well, I have two, thank you very much, and I need to update at least one of them so GIVE ME MY BLOG BACK ALREADY.

This only proves how little you can trust free cloud services like wordpress.com, even though they are very nice and trustworthy in general. Glad that I host my bellydance website on a server in the Netherlands, granting me full control. The reason why I updated my website is because I was called by a lady for a booking next Thursday and I realized that I hadn't updated my online calendar for a while. I did ofcourse update my website earlier this year to reflect the VAT going up from 19% to 21%.

Next week is insane: I'm doing a (close to charity) gig with FaKyMa on wednesday in Zoetermeer, a christmasparty performance in Bussum on Thursday (party thrown by surgeons, they pay the standard deal without complaining. Yay!) and performing in the Stairway on Friday (It's a local club, quite famous with the general public, I'm doing full blown bellydance with veil and zills). Saturday I celebrate my birthday, woohoo!! Sunday is wedding dress shopping with ikaiya.

Talking about belly dance adminsitration, I should also sit down and make the bill for last semester's classes and the trial class in September. I could use the money for the Aziza Dreamcamp next year. I have HUGE first world problems, being that I am planning my holidays for 2013 and I have to choose between going to New York for the Belly Dance Theatrical Festival, or to Aziza's Dream Camp in Belgium.  Woe is me! *faints while holding her hand to her face*. Ranya and Anasma, or Aziza and Hisham? What Would Flisties Do?

I digress. I have to figure out how to get control back over the two public websites, being the event website for RonDom Buikdans and the troupe website for Sense of Bellydance. I'll start out by the wordpress faq, will post back on the result.

Comments

[beafarhana.livejournal.com]

It would be Ranya for me, every time!

Good luck with the websites.

[misspotsitt.livejournal.com]

I feel a bit guilty saying this, but I have taken workshops with almost all of them and I would be going for Ranya and Anasma personally.

[evil-spice.livejournal.com]

Personally I'd do Dreambootcamp because I really like that intensive training and can imagine that a week of Aziza would be transformative. I think the way the theatrical bellydance conference is organised sounds interesting though. I gues it depends whether you think you'll enjoy focussing on a topic or on a dancer. I can see both being really useful.

[mizmarti.livejournal.com]

Unless you specifically want to focus on "theatrical bellydance" -- not "bellydance bellydance" -- I'd go with Aziza and Issam, hands down. I admire many of the teachers that Ranya and Anasma have booked this year, and I think it's really cool that they put on a festival with a unique focus. If I wanted to choose the most valuable training for dance as DANCE, though, and get the most return on my investment by that standard, I'd go with the more focused (and more traditionally dance-focused) intensive.