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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:14:54 +0100
From: Peldi <peldi@mailbox.dsnet.it>
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Subject: New Year? New Ultilinks!
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Introducing... a new Ultilinks for a new year.
http://www.ultilinks.com/
New and improved features:
1.We can now list ALL teams (even those with just email)
2.The Front Page is brand new, dynamic and "browser-sensitive"
3.The site is 25% FASTER
4.Interviews
5.Picture of the month
6.Improved search engine
7.Sponsors, we are ready!
Future features (soon to be added):
8.Free Home Page hosting for your tournament
9.Ultilinks - The BillBoard
The above in details:
1.We can now list ALL teams (even those with just email)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's right. We changed Ultilinks so that ALL teams with an email
contact can be listed, not just those with a web site (the way it was
before).
This means that the Ultilinks database could easily double its size if
we wanted to. But we are only going to do it if YOU want to. Unlike the
address of a web site, emails are a personal thing and we don't want to
list emails without permission.
So if your team doesn't have a web page and you still want to be listed
on Ultilinks (good idea!), go ahead and ADD your link!
Another privacy issue: all the emails listed on Ultilinks are now coded,
to avoid indexing by search-engines or non human agents. For example the
email address "staff@ultilinks.com" will appear like this:
Ulti*staff@ultilinks.com*links
To make it work, people will have to take off the Ulti* and *links
parts.
It's a bit of a pain, but we don't want the emails listed to get more
unsolicited emails (i.e. SPAM) because of us.
2.The Front Page is brand new, dynamic and "browser-sensitive"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, the most striking difference is the new Front door. It is more like
the front page of a newspaper, with most of what you need, just one
click away.
It shows the number of links divided by continent, a list of cool pages,
a built-in search box, and lots of other things:
-The content is dynamic (it changes every time you go there):
This means that every time you visit Ultilinks, you will get 5
different random links to choose from, a different banner, a
different set of web-statistics and a description of a different
section of ultilinks.
-The page self adjusts to the browser you are using:
Even if a good 79.74% of visitors to Ultilinks use Netscape3 (and
later) or MSIE4 (and later), there's still a 20% of users with
browsers that do not understand Javascript.
This means that 20% of you are not be able to use the "Teams", "Usa",
and "The Rest" sections. Even the previous Front door had some
problems (the banners didn't work).
Well, we fixed it!
The new Front door now "understands" which browser you are using and
shows you only links your browser can interpret well.
-The TeamFinder
This is another new feature: on the front page you will get an small
box with all the teams listed around the world sorted alphabetically.
If you are looking for a particular team, this is the fastest way to
reach their site!
3.The site is 25% FASTER
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yep, we try our best to keep the downloading time as short as possible.
The "Teams" and "Usa" sections are about 22% faster to load, while the
"Go Random" pop-up is an amazing 90% faster!
4.Interviews
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just for your pleasure, every month we will interview an "ultimate
v.i.p." ;-)
This month we interviewed Jumpi from CotaRica Rimini, one of the main
organizers of Paganello.
5.Picture of the month
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Another thing we added is the "Picture of the Month". Every month we
will show a very cool ultimate picture. So go ahead and send us your
fantastic high catches or super-ho lay-outs!
For a month, your picture will be seen around the world by about 100
people every day!
6.Improved search engine
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This changed about a month ago, but it shouldn't go unnoticed. Thanks to
Chris Schneider and Michael Hauber (both from Radical, Zurich), we
switched to ht://dig, a search engine which is much more stable than
what we were using before and with a rating system!
The address didn't change: http://search.ultilinks.com/
7.Sponsors, we are ready!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Julian Durand (from the Wizards Geneva) joined the party to become
Ultilinks.com marketing and sales manager.
He says that Ultilinks is an advertisers' dream: lots of worldwide hits
every day, a very definite audience (ultimate players) and a very useful
service.
If you are a potential sponsor go ahead and write him at his new address
mailto:ultilinks@digitalsmile.com
He will tell you that we can now log click-throughs, that we split the
banners of each page so that the top one is for sponsors and the bottom
one is still free for all teams and tournaments, and lots of other very
interesting info.
And now about future features (soon to be added):
8.Free Home Page hosting for your tournament
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We noticed that a lot of tournaments only have an email address.
Since this means a lot of work both for the organizers and those who
look for info about it.
We thought it would be a good service to host tournament home pages for
free.
The TD will set it up with all the tournament info (name, location,
dates, format, etc.). Teams (and pick uppers) will be able to register
through the web page, and the TD will be notified when teams do.
If it's an hat tournament, players will be able to register as well.
No HTML coding will be necessary. People will simply fill out forms.
The TD will be able to edit it as many times as needed, to keep it very
updated.
The address will be something like
http://www.ultilinks.com/tournaments/name_of_your_tourny.html
9.Ultilinks - The BillBoard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is another vague idea. Do you know the forum at www.frisbee.de?
Well, we would like to do the same thing for people to post messages
about their newly founded team or new web page. It doesn't want to
replace rec.sport.disc or all the local mailing list at all, it would
just be another way to advertise globally your team's new web site or
email address.
We'll keep you posted on these new features in the near future.
Thank you for reading this far and happy new year,
Peldi
PS.Ultilinks is hosted by DataCore Zurich (http://www.datacore.ch/).
They also host the WUCC99 site (http://www.ultilinks.com/wucc99/) and
the Paganello web site (http://www.paganello.com). They give us a great
service for a very good price.
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mailto:peldi@ultilinks.com
Visit Ultilinks, The Ultimate Starting Point!
http://www.ultilinks.com/
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