toomanydaves…words by davelms

I’ve updated my Leeds Gig Tickets site as I was having some trouble with club nights infiltrating my event aggregation rules – the easiest way around this, I decided, was to farm the nightclub events out to their own page.

So I did.

I now have a Leeds Club Tickets page, with a change of design to differentiate between the varying parts of the ticket websites.

If you’ve not come across these sites before, my aim was to try and make the whole I’m looking to buy gig tickets process easier for the music fan. With many agencies covering the same event, each with their own availability (some sell out far quicker than others) and different fees, I thought it would be better if I could aggregate all 13 or 14 ticket agencies for an event, place the links onto a single webpage, and allow the user to find the ticket links more easily. I then developed software to filter out and remove sold out events and to keep the page fresh.

So think of the site as a specialised ticket search engine. Simples.

So if you’re buying tickets for Leeds gigs, check out our band tickets and nightclub tickets pages.

Update Leeds Gig Guide site now live at www.leedsgigs.co.uk.

Bit of a dull update considering this is my first post in over two years!

I’ve recently spent a bit of time creating a more general Leeds site. I started off with the idea of having a portal (-style) front page mixing and matching the best bits of other sites (ahem, legally!) and then creating a web directory of Leeds websites.

Regarding the Web Directory – one of the annoyances I had with DMOZ and hence Google, and Yahoo too, was the fact they are global directories and don’t quite suit all regions. I also found the regional navigation a little difficult. Well, less difficult, more bugging.

Finally, I couldn’t manage to get a domain name of choice, so went for leedz.co.uk ! Zzzzzzzzz… haha.