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The history of www.indianajones.de or how to create a
successful website!
I started to develop my Indiana Jones website in 1999. I had
no idea of creating a homepage. After the first steps I saw
no chance to make an interesting and good looking site. I
had the normal stuff like pictures and facts, but there were
a lot of better websites on the net. To be honest it was a
disaster. So I stopped the project.
In 2000 I heard about an animation tool for the internet called
"Flash". At that moment everything changed. I bought
books and learned how to handle that program. Some colleagues
taught me the main rules of design. The joy was back and I
wanted to start another try.
At the beginning of 2001 I had all the basically knowledge
to create my own Indiana Jones site. First I went online with
www.indianajonesinformationcenter.com and a couple of months
later I got www.indianajones.de
Unbelievable but true, one year later , this unimportant little
website was one of the most popular Indy sites on the Internet.
In that year I had over 1.000,000 visits. The page grew from
month to month. Many new facts, pictures, games and other
stuff were added. But not only the content changed, the design,
too. With the new design I reached the next step to have one
of the best Indiana Jones sites on the net.The next years
were even more successful and interesting. Indiana Jones 4
was announced and one rumour was followed by another. www.indianajones.de
got more and more attention of the press. During the release
of the new Indiana Jones games and the DVD's many magazines
mentioned www.indianajones.de as the best resource page for
Indy fans.
Since the last re-design in 2002 two years went by and it
was time to give www.indianajones.de another look and identity.
After six months of hard work I was finally finished with
the new version of this website. But not only the design changed,
also the title of this site. The long 'Indiana Jones Information
Center' was replaced by the short www.indianajones.de
But that's not all. I have many other ideas in my mind. And
if there is any time in the future I'll try to enhance this
site with even more new features.
I want to thank all visitors and contributors for their help
and loyalty. Without these people this site couldn't exist.
Regards,
Marcel
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