Dance Champions offer two options for accessing class data. A Widget and a Web Service. Both these 'tools' return the same data but in slightly different ways. Which you choose is just a case of understanding how you want to display the data on your site. And, in some cases the type of hosting you have and the technical ability of the web designer.

Using the Widget is simply a case of pasting the provided code into your site, and when a visitor enters a post code, the results are displayed in a pop out window. The appearance of this window is pre-determined and matches the Dance Champions site look and feel.

The Web Serivce simply returns an XML data stream and it is up to the web designer to merge this data with a style sheet and display it in the site. This gives the web designer a lot more control over how the data is displayed but requires considerably more programming experience.

We do provide a basic tutorial on how to use the web service with some sample code and a working example that can be run on your web server to check that the configuration meets the required parameters, but we cannot offer direct support. There is also a Help section to assist web developers in using this service.