The ToffeeWeb–Evertonia Merger
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Announcing a new era: two major Everton websites are combining! |
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TOFFEEWEB AND EVERTONIA |
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 ToffeeWeb.org
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The earliest of all Everton websites on the internet |
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PLUS |
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Evertonia.Com
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The Everton website with the best design and layout |
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EQUALS |
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ToffeeWeb.Com
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A new site and a unique combination: Only the Best |
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Over the past seven years, ToffeeWeb has grown to become a major
undertaking – devoted to factual up-to-date information, statistics,
reports, and intelligent opinions on everything to do with Everton.
It also represents a unique and growing archive of Everton records from
the recent internet era.
The emphasis has always been on content, with a relatively simple layout originally created by Marko Poutiainen that was designed to load quickly – featuring a minimum of graphics, javascript, and other heavyweight internet window-dressing. But time stands still for no-one. Broadband is on the march, and Marko is no longer actively involved in maintaining the site. That awesome responsibility has increasingly fallen on the current Site Manger, Michael Kenrick, who collates the diverse site content from his home in Seattle, on the US west coast. |
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Evertonia.com was created by Lyndon Lloyd, and continues to be managed by
him despite huge changes in his personal circumstances over the last 18
months. Lyndon got married, he got a proper job, and he also left
England to take up residence on the US west coast – in San Fransisco.
Any watchers of the Internet can't fail to have noticed that the coverage provided at full-service football websites has tended to evolve into a cadre of essential sections: News, Current Season, History, the Club, the Fans, Comment... the formula is now almost cast in stone. Neither Evertonia.com nor ToffeeWeb.org could buck this trend, so the decision was made to combine this overlapping content to form the core for the ultimate Everton website – by the fans, for the fans. So the idea for ToffeeWeb.Com was formulated... |
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The sensible and logical way forward was to combine the two
websites. And that is exactly what we have done. The new
website features a smart and incredibly functional layout that Lyndon has
developed and evolved through numerous iterations of Evertonia.com.
It is now applied to the comprehensive in-depth Everton content that
became a watchword for ToffeeWeb.org.
The new site makes full use of more advanced web technologies: javascript, Active Server Pages, database integration... For future development, we intend to bring you:
And what of the change to a dot.com entity for ToffeeWeb? That signifies a reality that advertising and other commercial ventures must be harnessed in order to provide some recompense for the increasing cost of webhosting for larger and larger websites. The content of the site will retain the objectives established at ToffeeWeb. During the transition period, some older content will still be found at the old ToffeeWeb.org domain. We hope for your continued support, and we want to encourage your feedback, particularly if you experience problems browsing the site. We have created this website as a totality of what WE want from an Everton website. Let us make it even better by telling us what you would like to improve the site. |
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More about ToffeeWeb can be found in the About ToffeeWeb section. |
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Lyndon
Lloyd |
Michael
Kenrick Site Editor ToffeeWeb.Com |
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Last updated: 01 December 2008 |
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