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Es war einmal...die Champmaniacs-Story!
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A rainy morning in april '98. With learning for a big test this &
the following days on the top of my task-list also a quite boring day.
Around midday I was running out of options what to do instead of learning,
and suddenly I got the big inspiration everybody gets once in a life - and
forgets very fast, if clever enough;) Champmaniacs was born! Or TK's
Championship Manager page, as it was called first.
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Knowing nothing of how to do a homepage (I really used the Netscape
Composer for my first steps!), it all started on may, 21st with this
design.
As you can see, if you click on the screenshot, the design is not the only
thing that improved within the last years - my english also is a bit better
now... Though, as I already hear you say - yeah, there's still a lot to
improve:)
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The first month the design changed at least once every week. Though, some of
the designing masterpieces didn't even manage to survive 24 hours.
On the left you see one of the better attempts I've been damned proud of
that time. Unfortunately there were some problems with the links which I
was unable to solve, so that after a few days this design disappeared
again.
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In july then, the black/green combination was born. With the design on the
right, I finally found a look I've been happy with for nearly six
months!
Unfortunately, as I'm writing this, the old counter of that time doesn't
work anymore, so that you can't watch it in full brightness;)
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The beginning of the new year then just saw a small change. As the old menu
contained too much red, I felt I had to create a new one in a black/green
look.
First it has already been planned to change the name of the page to "jez'
champmaniacs" for january '99, but as Sports Interactive delayed the
release date for CM3 to april, I also decided to delay the new design &
the renaming to april/may:)
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In april '99 then the long awaited CM3 was released. After the old design
of "TK's Championship Manager Page" survived about ten months with some
minor changes, I decided to create a completely new & better design.
Unfortunately a new design + opening all the CM3 sections was a bit too
much work, so that the following eight months "jez' champmaniacs", as the
page was called from now on, appeared in a design I've never been able to
complete. Though, if your eyes are good enough, you'll notice that the
background picture didn't change since that time!
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For the new millenium the next big step was done. On january 1st, after a
nearly one month break in december '99, champmaniacs was the proud owner of
it's own domain - champmaniacs.de - and appeared in a new design.
After some problems with hosting the downloads champmaniacs became a member
of the SoccerAlliance later in the year, so that I now didn't have to
upload all download-files every two weeks because 'Xoom' or 'Crosswinds'
deleted them again. Now champmaniacs was finally as big as I never wanted
at the time I started with "TK's Championship Manager Page".
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Well, I think you don't need a screenshot of the current design - but
anyway...:)
After sixteen months then it was time for a change again, as I also noticed
some minor problems with the old design. Though, as I've been quite happy
with the old look, I first decided to change just a few things. And also if
it now looks like if I'd just changed those few things, I can guarantee you
there's been changed much more:)
Now let's see what the future will bring!
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