Amala Gameela | Professional Belly Dance Artist

Hi Everyone! My name is Brian, and while I’m not the author of the content that you’re hoping to read (that is, all the fun details about Amala and what’s happening with her), I did all of the creative, graphic, coding, and other technical work that has gone into this virtual home. A big high five to Sarah Skinner who provided a number of the photos, in particular the beautiful header photo, sans a bit of digital magic by yours truly.

What I primarily want to do is say “Welcome, we’re glad you’re here!” and give you some suggestions about how you, as a friend, student, family member, or fan can help Amala out and make her new website a success. This blog is a place for you! … Whether you’re a family member, friend, student, or fellow bellydancer, this is the place to keep up with what is happening with Amala and also offer your encouragement and support. The more often you check here and the more often you comment on her blogs and interact with this online community the more you will help her to become what I would call “visible” on the web.

The more people who visit a website, the more visible it becomes to search engines like Google and Yahoo. This means that as her friend, you can help her out simply by checking back frequently for updates. It is my hope that this site will be a great help to anyone who is trying to keep track of her bellydance life. I, personally have many bellydancer friends down here in Delaware, my little corner of the world and for me, I often have no idea when or where they are dancing so I don’t get to see them perform as often as I’d like. Amala’s main page AmalaRaqs.com incorporates a modern web technology called an “RSS feed” which is maintained and updated by Amala in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest info on all of her performances, workshops, and othe special events. For those of you more web savvy, you can subscribe to her RSS feed to get up the latest info via your favorite feed reader. For those of you who want to be automatically updated about special events with Amala, you can also subscribe to her e-mail list at the bottom of the main page. The gallery has pictures and YouTube videos of her performances. I’m sure you can figure all this out out… onto how you can help her out.

Here are some simple ways that you can help out Amala and her new site:

• Check the site, particularly the main page and the blog frequently for updates
• Comment on her blog
• Subscribe to receive e-mail updates (any time Amala updates her calendar you will receive an automated e-mail informing you of new dates added to her calendar) on the main page
• Post links back to her site in appropriate and visible places, such as: online forums (like bhuzz.com, and shira.net) and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

There’s a good chance you won’t hear from me again since Amala will be taking over the show, but if you need me, you can find me over at my site DreamStar Studios. It’s not as pretty as Amala’s because I keep so busy with other people’s sites that mine is a bit neglected :( Sorry about that!

Best wishes to everyone and to all of you dancer’s out there… Keep it Up!

Brian Feister
DreamStar Studios

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