Today was quite an exhausting day creating backups, copying files, configuring settings and whole lot of work done in few hours window. But in the end it paid off. Seems like new design is working now. The main goal of this main design was making the site more user friendly.    

     Even though the website is running now, it will run slow until the server cache warms up. The performance will improve over time. Also if you are trying to visit an artist profile, you might need to wait quite a while. Once you click a profile, it will regenerate and you might be redirected to the main page. So click again to see the full profile.

     Previously, playing songs, navigating through different profiles were harder and more time consuming. With this new design, some of those bottle necks have been eliminated if not all.All the songs that are available at dhakatopi.com can now be streamed through the main homepage in easy 1-2-3 steps. Look for quick play section. 1. Select the alphabet that your preferred artist's name begins with. 2. Select your artist from the list. 3. Select the song. The song now starts playing. Isn't that easy, I am sure, it is.If you decide to visit one our artists profile, browsing for songs has become easier. Just find the songs you want to listen from the scroll bar found on the right hand side of the page, and click the song. The song will start playing. The good news is that once the song starts playing, if we have lyrics/guitar tabs on hand, it will immediately be displayed in the center of the page, without even refreshing the page (thats the cool ajax feature). I was happy to see that feature working when I first tried it. I hope you will like it too. So if you have lyrics or guitar tabs of any song, feel free to send me via the contact us feature available at the bottom of every page. All the lyrics will be posted giving full credits to the author.

     For the time being, I have disabled the video feature. I hadn't uploaded videos because its too bandwidth consuming and will potentially slow down the entire website. But if things change, it will be enabled asap.Since we have a good collection of songs and good number of people who visit this site on daily basis, its time to start using the forum more often. To bring in to the  attention of everybody, I pulled the latest topics to the home page. Hopefully we all will find that a useful feature. Previously, I had to shut down the forum due to spamming. Some hackers found out the way to bypass the image verification and overflow the forum. Therefore, as a security measure, it will now only be opened to the loyal members of this site.

     If you want to listen refreshing songs when you are bored or are being too lazy to even find songs and play, just click on one of our wide selection of playlists. One of my favorite is "Sada Bahar Geetharu". More songs have been added, so keep checking back once a while. This playlist was originally created by Bibek and now jointly managed by Bibek and Smriti. So, if you are enjoying it, be sure to thank them. I am sure they will appreciate it.

      Everybody enjoys using facebook and twitter. So I decided to get badge from both social network giants. Be sure to become the fan and follower of our facebook and twitter page respectively. Let your friends know that you are fan of dhakatopi nepali music collection. Spreading the information among your friends helps to grow our community, boost our enthusiasm to work harder, and let Nepasese music community to do better. If you find any page missing, non working, let me know immediately via contact us feature so that appropriate steps are taken immediately.

Sincerely,

Anil