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Dear ultimate players,
Ultilinks, "The Ultimate Starting Point", has grown a lot
since its start last February, with more than 500 pages listed and
about 30 daily visitors from all over the world.
Keeping it all in one page had become unpractical, because
the page size (more than 200Kb) would make Ultilinks too slow for
most users.
That's what led us to the decision of splitting it and (hopefully)
improve it.
Ultilinks and all its parts are now generated by java programs using
jdbc. So whenever a link changes or we add some more, we only need
to update one record of the DB (not 7) and all the pages will have it.
Also (and more exciting), thanks to the efforts of Chris Schneider and
Michael Hauber from Radical Zurich, "The Ultimate Starting Point" has
moved to a faster, better location. It is now hosted by DataCore, in
the earth of Switzerland. The new address is very easy to remember:
http://www.ultilinks.com/
In most browsers, that means you only have to type "ultilinks" to get
there.
We were really sorry to make the change, because we know that a lot of
pages either have the button or have a link to it and will have to
be updated, but we thought that since we had to move sooner or later,
the sooner the better.
To make it worth the effort, we gave Ultilinks a completely new (and
faster) look, and added some sections that we think you might like.
For more info, mailto:staff@ultilinks.com
The Teams Section - http://www.ultilinks.com (47Kb)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the new main page, with links to all-but-USA teams in the
world. Today it contains 200 links of 24 different countries, 180
cities, and the number keeps growing.
The Teams USA Section - http://usa.ultilinks.com (59Kb)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
With 50 States, 1 District and a whole lot of links (more than 230
today), the United States deserved their own section of Ultilinks,
with it's own domain too!
All The Rest - http://www.ultilinks.com/index2.html (49Kb)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Upcoming Tournaments, Federations, Educational, Useful, Online Shops,
Beach Ultimate, Magazines & Articles, Fun Stuff and Other Disc Sports.
These are the sections included in this page.
Search Ultilinks - http://search.ultilinks.com (18Kb, DB size ~26Mb)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
by Chris Schneider
The search engine uses all links known to Ultilinks to get web pages
related to Ultimate from the Web and create a searchable index. This
index can be regenerated automatically to keep it up-to-date and new
links added to Ultilinks will be included as well.
The search engine uses the freely available Harvest Web Indexing
software (which can be found at http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/)
to accomplish this task.
An effort was made to restrict the search index to Ultimate relevant
parts of the listed web sites to reduce network usage during the
index creation process and keep the database as small and as fast to
search as possible.
The Tree - http://www.ultilinks.com/tree.html (109Kb)
^^^^^^^^
This is a new page, intended for those who want to have all of
Ultilinks without having to get online. This is a all-in-one,
downloadable (maybe once a week?), tree-like version of Ultilinks,
containing all of the above sections (500+ links today), with their
addresses showing in case you want to print it.
ABC Teams - http://www.ultilinks.com/abc.html (86Kb)
^^^^^^^^^
This is another new page. It's the links of both the "Teams" and
"Teams USA" sections, sorted by team name. It shows each team's
division, city, country and, of course, web address.
The Go Random! Pop-Up Window - (28Kb)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Have time to spare? Want to see how frisbee in other parts of the
world is spelled like? This little window makes you open up to 10
randomly selected pages at the same time. Go ahead and waste your lunch
break!
Ultilynx - http://ultilynx.ultilinks.com (4Kb)
^^^^^^^^
"All of the above sounds really nice, but I am using an old browser
that doesn't speak Javascript. What do I do?"
Ultilynx is your friend. It was purposely intended for you (but also
for those who hate windows popping up or have a very slow connection).
As usual, Ultilinks offers free advertising for teams and tournaments.
Shops and Companies should mailto:advertising@ultilinks.com for prices
info.
Thanks using Ultilinks,
Peldi (peldi@ultilinks.com)
Chris (cschneid@relog.ch)
Note:Ultilinks uses Javascript and therefore it is best viewed with
Netscape Navigator 4.x or MSIE4.0. Netscape 3.x will work depending on
what release you have.
For those using an older browser, we suggest using "Ultilynx", "The
Tree", "ABC" and "Search", which do not use javascript extensively and
will show well on every browser (even lynx).
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