Take the tour -- Festivale online magazine

About Festivale

Festivale online magazine has several basic sections:

A Reel Life: the Film Section;

Bookroom: the Book Section;

Technology Bytes: the Technology Section;

Festivale Guidebook: the Pictorial Guide to Melbourne and Victoria;

The Online Shopping Mall; and

Cover Stories.

To see the contents of the current issue of Festivale, click on the Contents button, or the word "contents" on any clickable heading. If you are not familiar with clickable images, use your mouse to move the pointer over the image above. Note how the pointer changes shape over some parts of the image, those are 'hot spots' which, if you click on them, will transfer you to another part of the current page, the current site, or even to another site.

Cover Stories

To see all previous Festivale cover stories, use our yellow search boxes, they appear all over the site (search for the phrase 'cover stories').

Once you've looked around the site a bit, you'll probably just want to know what's changed. The change history has a list of upload dates, each with links to the major pages changed on Festivale that day. To get to this page from elsewhere in the site, click on the what's new button (see left), or the words "latest uploads" when they appear in a clickable heading.

You can register the page and be notified of each upload date. Several pages on the site have these buttons, including the list of film reviews, and pages that we expect to change in the future.

We welcome constructive comments about the content of the site, and most pages have an e-mail button (see left) or textual link. Book and film reviews have buttons that link to reader comment forms. If you find an error on a page, please let us know by clicking on the bug report button and completing the form. For sites as large as Festivale (over 400 files) it is impossible to test everything, so your help is appreciated.

Pictorial Guide to Melbourne and Victoria

The guide is slowly growing as we visit various places of interest. We are starting from Melbourne and working our way out.

The pictorial guide includes:

A series of clickable maps, many of which have links to other parts of Festivale and to other websites that may be of interest. Try zooming out and in to get an idea of where the subject lies. As a general rule, zooming in takes you to progressively more particular maps until you end with an information page. Many maps have 'hot spots', usually any items of interest are listed under the map as well. When a related map or item of interest is underlined, clicking will either take you to an information page, another map, or display an image. Click on your back button to return.
There is an index of all maps on the site.

Illustrated entries for public park and gardens, historical sites, museums, etc. There are lists, many with instructions on how to get to the places by public transport.
The master list is the front of the Pictorial Guide

Cover stories are often photostories which follow a theme, for example, Melbourne at Night, and a great if you just want to look at photos. Cover stories of this kind are listed in the Pictorial Guide. All cover stories, including interviews are listed in the features index. Click on the index button from any page to get to that index, or to select a specialised index such as book reviews.

Film Section

The film section includes:

A regular column, A Reel Life.

A database of Australian release dates (Coming Attractions) is updated regularly, and links to current information or reviews on the site are added almost every week.

We review most films that are released in Melbourne, usually by two people. Once you get to know a reviewer, you can often judge whether or not you will enjoy a film. Sometimes a reviewer who always has the opposite opinion to your own can be the most useful.

Prior to a review going up, we often put up the review page with such information as we have, for example, crew and cast credits and the official website, if known.

Links to movie sites, including Australian cinema sites.

Buy films, posters, and related books from a range of well-known stores in the online shopping mall

For those of you who are interested in live theatre the also the Stage Left theatre section edited by Tim Richards has spun off to a separate site

Online Shopping Mall

Looking for places to shop online? The online shopping mall is a great place to start. The mall includes a stores page, which has entrances to all the online stores in the mall.

The books page has entrances for stores that sell books, plus links to interviews, reviews, and our author pages.

The movies page has entrances for stores that sell videos, DVDs and soundtrack CDs, plus links to interviews and reviews. Festivale has links directly to online stores from our reviews pages.

The online stores also sell toys, electronic goodies like cameras, furniture and much more.

Book Section

The book section includes a cover page called the Bookroom. An automatic transfer page sends you to the latest version. Use the contents button to leave the section. Some users may need to double-click on their back button to prevent being returned to the Bookroom page.

Also in the book section are book reviews; and

A regular column by Australian fiction writer Sally Odgers called Sally's Reading Corner.

Buy films, posters, and related books from a range of well-known stores in the online shopping mall

Technology Bytes

News and reviews, articles about computers and the web, recommended links for children are among the subjects which are part of our technology section.

Gamers can read Phil Wllodarczyk's column in the Gameroom.

Free downloadable files

We regularly change the following:

A wallpaper image, with 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 versions.

A screen saver

Other snapshots of Festivale include:

the old tour

textual site map

Festivale Online Magazine
Celebrate everything!
www.festivale.info
ISSN 1328-8008
Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Last tested: 1-Sep-1999

Last updated: 2-Apr-2005

Last compiled: Last Compiled:15-Mar-2010
Entire site refreshed: Dec 2008-Feb 2009 | Site URL transferred: Jan 2005 (previously www.festivale.webcentral.com.au)