Six years ago, I created The E Club to share the best Mario, Star Trek, and science information. Now, having entered more fields like social networking and online arcade gaming while still staying true to its original purpose, I couldn't be more proud of where The E Club has come. But it doesn't stop here. This year is Mario's 30th anniversary, and next year is Star Trek's 50th, so great new stuff is on the way!
On September 17, 2010, when this site was created, The E Club registered its first domain name, theeclub.info. This made it easier to access The E Club and allowed us to make the majority of The E Club Family Websites subdomains of it. Now, we've made The E Club even more accessible by giving it a second domain name (with no subdomains though): theeclub.tk. The .tk top level domain (TLD) comes from the small, South Pacific island of Tokelau, and we picked it because it provides free domain names and theeclub.tk is two letters shorter than theeclub.info, allowing for increased accessibility. We partnered with site host IM Creator to host the new site (due to technical issues we couldn't redirect it here), which uses an iframe of The E Club to create an almost exact duplicate of the site.
We hope you enjoy theeclub.tk along with the rest of The E Club Family! NOTE: theeclub.tk has been…
Today's the day! The E Club is now half a decade old. Though the original site is long gone, its mission lives on through the fourteen websites now known as The E Club Family: to provide great information about Mario, Star Trek, and science. The E Club Family has also disrupted many other areas as well, such as social networking and sharing, online gaming and shopping, video sharing, various technologies, and so much more. The E Club Family has come so far in the last five years, and I'm proud to say this will always continue on. Even as it expands into even more new areas, The E Club Family will forever be a great resource for Mario, Star Trek, and science.
Even though The E Club World is The E Club Family's official and more active blog, I still use this blog as a means of sharing updates and events on The E Club itself. This page also had blog posts from the original The E Club, but they have been moved to the "More Blog" and "Even More Blog" pages here on The E Club. This change is because the old blog posts contain a lot of slow-loading content such as Flash banners, YouTube videos, etc., which in turn slowed down the loading of this page. Visitors also couldn't see the old blog posts until they scrolled down to the end of these blog posts, which could cause confusion. Now, this blog has its own page, and the old blog is still on the site but in its own pages.
Enjoy this update!
The E Club was long overdue for a new look. Now, it's got one. I have redesigned everything on The E Club (except for the main menu) so that the site looks seamless and even more awesome than before. In this redesign, The E Club Ad Creator (a page with a form to create ads, not The E Club Advertising), PrintMedia, the ENews subscription box on what is now the Quick Polls page, The E Shop (not the two sites, just the page on The E Club), and more were phased out to simplify and beautify the experience.
I hope you enjoy the new look.
Throughout almost all of The E Club's history, The E Club itself almost always had a search functionality that allowed users to search The E Club and later The E Club Family. It started out as FreeFind, and The E Club later switched to Google Custom Search, which The E Club Family still uses today. When The E Club moved to WebStarts, the Custom Search engine was still there, but there was one problem that the original The E Club didn't have: The Custom Search boxes were in different places on each page. This probably caused much confusion.
Today, I am pleased to say there's a new way to search at The E Club - on most of the pages (except the home page and this page), there are Custom Search boxes above the main menu of The E Club, just below the banner at the top of the page. We are also still tweaking the search engine so that it can reach its full potential as the official search…