EOSARDA
Advertise your Event and Prepare your Flyer
1. Pick a date
- Mississippi Squares Halfway Dance
- 2nd Saturday in January
- EOSARDA Frosty Fling
- 1st Saturday in February
- Swinging B's Valentines Dance
- 2nd Sunday in February
- Riverside Gypsies Mid-Winter Dance
- 4th Sunday in February
- Limestone Dancers St. Patrick's Dance
- 3rd Saturday in March
- Quinte Twirlers Apple Blossom Dance
- Last Sunday in April
- EOSARDA Swing into Spring
- Weekend of the first Sunday in May
- Harbour Lites Food Bank Dance
- 1st Saturday in November
- EOSARDA Christmas Dance
- 2nd Sunday in December
- Grenville Gremlins New Year's Eve Dance
- December 31st
The established dates of these dance events are reserved for their use although
there may be minor deviations in any year due to room, caller or cuer availability.
Please also note that Callers and Directors have monthly meetings on Sundays during the dance season. You are free to have an event on these days but risk reduced attendance from those involved.
- OACA Callers Meetings
- 1st Sunday of each month
- EOSARDA Board Meetings
- 3rd Sunday of each month
2. Convert Flyer to PDF or JPG
PDF and JPG are the preferred file formats because they can be opened by everyone without needing to have proprietary software.See info at right to convert files to PDF
3. Compress Your Flyer
Large files require more time to download and require higher bandwidth usage and associated costs. By optimizing your flyer you can end up with a new file that is up to 3 to 5x smaller than the original and that loads much quicker.NOTE: Do NOT create a .ZIP file which shrinks files for transmission or storage and must be expanded again before use; it's the internal PDF or JPG coding that needs to be optimized which will then result in a smaller file.
See info at right to compress the PDF or JPG coding
To help the webmaster and bulletin coordinator,
please indicate
that you have compressed your file. Sometimes the compressing program will do this for you
by placing a ".compressed" or similar wording in the filename of the returned file. Leave this word in your title as evidence that the file has been compressed.
The subject line of the e-mail message should be the same subject line you want to see in your bulletin.
As long as your poster has all of the necessary information, just sending a .jpg (or other graphic version) is certainly the easiest way to proceed.
More than one message may be sent for a specific event:
a message well in advance will allow people to reserve the date and
message nearer the event date will act as a reminder.
More than two messages might be considered excessive and might be rejected
-- if too many messages are sent, they become counter-productive spam.
More about bulletins. Also check out
Chapter 25 of our Procedures Manual
for more information about EOSARDA Bulletins.
Saving a file in the PDF or JPG format can result in some VERY large files.
Large files require more time to download, take up more room to store on our web servers
and incur higher bandwidth usage and costs for those viewing/downloading your flyer. By compressing the PDF or JPG coding in
your flyer,
it is not uncommon to end up with a new file that
is 3 to 5 times smaller than the original with little degradation.
To see the size of your file ... Right Click
Unless your flyer/file is extremely complex, there is usually
no reason for a file to be over 200kB in size.
If you've reduced the size of your file and it's still above 200kB, you might try using
another program to do the optimizing (one program only shaved a measly 0.5kB from the file size;
another program made it 8x smaller!). Larger sizes are acceptable if they cannot be reduced further.
4a. Submit Events for the Web Calendar
Click Here to Send your information/flyer...
Click on the email link at the bottom of this box. It will open your email client program and prefill several fields and let you attach your flyer for sending. Depending on your system, it may also attempt to open web-based email accounts like gMail or Yahoo.
If you don't have an email client program, or don't know, or don't know what an email client is, or it doesn't work for you, then simply copy the email address below and paste it into the To: field of your email program, fill in other information and attach your file.
4b. Submit Events for EOSARDA Bulletins
Click Here to Send your information/flyer...
Click on the email link at the bottom of this box. It will open your email client program and prefill several fields and let you attach your flyer for sending. Depending on your system, it may also attempt to open web-based email accounts like gMail or Yahoo.
If you don't have an email client program, or don't know, or don't know what an email client is, or it doesn't work for you, then simply copy the email address below and paste it into the To: field of your email program, fill in other information and attach your file.
Notes
JPG:
- If you submit a flyer in a graphic format (eg, .jpg, .gif, .png), it will appear as part of the body of your message when the bulletin is opened.
PDF:
- if you submit a flyer as a PDF file, only a link to the flyer will appear in the bulletin along with any descriptive text you send. Include the information exactly as you wish to see it in the bulletin.
Size of PDF and JPG files (Compressing)
on your file and choose Properties/Get Info or select
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