Since The E Club's creation back in 2009, E's Blog has always been the source for updates around The E Club. The E Club World was also created in 2010 to provide updates from across The E Club Family as well as more miscellaneous topics. But when The E Club left Moogo in September 2010, a problem began to coalesce: The E Club 2.0's host, WebStarts, couldn't match the Moogo site's blog capabilities, so the E's Blog posts from the original Moogo site had to be moved to a static page separate from the new blog. Eventually, this became More Blog. When The E Club 3.0 was created, I also had to integrate the posts from The E Club 2.0 into More Blog. Because that one page is six years' worth of posts, some accompanied by images and YouTube videos, More Blog is by far the most sluggish and inefficient page on The E Club 3.0; while other pages take around 1-3 seconds to load, More Blog tops 10…
I am incredibly proud to introduce The E Club's brand new logo to the world! It can be seen in place of the old one on the top bar banner, at the bottom of the homepage, and as the new favicon. I designed it to be the modernization of the old logo from The E Club's inception in 2009 - circular instead of rectangular, with one thin, multicolored "E" instead of "The E Club" in blocky, shape-based lettering. Creating a beautiful contrast to the black background, the vivid colors from the original logo as well as a deep but bright blue create an abstraction that makes the new logo so simple yet so much more at the same time.
The new logo will continue to roll out over the next few weeks, but for now, make sure to look for it across The E Club Family!
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…
Lots of good things are at The E Club Family Websites! Many of The E Club Family Websites are located at subdomains of The E Club, including The E Club Lite, The E Club World, and The E Club Arcade. We've also created s.theeclub.info, a URL shortening system inside of bitly. The E Club's top bar banner and Events Calendar are improved. One of our biggest updates is the birth of The E Club Social (social.theeclub.info) and The E Club Social Beta (theeclubsocial.wall.fm). Since I think Google trying to compete with Facebook, looking almost identical to each other, is wrong, I decided to see if I could play a big role in the social web. The E Club Social was created with Forumotion.com on July 2, 2011, and The E Club Social Beta was created with Wall.fm on August 27.
Plus, Moogo, The E Club's old creator, is shutting down in September 2012. The E Club moving to WebStarts was certainly good…
Lots of blogs have feeds, like the old The E Club did. The E Club used Feedburner, and even put some AdSense for Feeds ads in the mix. Ever since then, I have always wanted another Feedburner Feed, but this time, it was harder since The E Club's Blog was not set in XML Format. So, I used the URL of the feed WebStarts provided from those orange buttons, and it worked. Now, you can subscribe to The E Club's Feedburner Feed!
Now that The E Club is on Facebook, why not do more? On December 3, 2010, The E Club joined Twitter, @TheEClubInfo (https://twitter.com/TheEClubInfo). The Twitter gadget is installed in this blog! Look under the Facebook widget.
The E Club has joined Facebook on November 24, 2010! The E Club already has THREE followers (even though I'm not a follower of the page since I don't have a personal Facebook profile, I am still The E Club's biggest fan), and some updates written by yours truly...me. So, what are you waiting for? Become a fan of The E Club using the box to the right of these new entries! Also, you can go to https://facebook.com/TheEClubOfficial (The E Club's Facebook page) and click "Like".
Welcome to the NEW theeclub.info! This is now a registered domain site using http://www.webstarts.com. Everything is being moved here because Moogo is becoming so greedy that they will shut down all free websites soon, and even the personal package costs an arm and a leg. I would NOT recommend Moogo, anymore, that is. So anyway, The E Club.info uses WebStarts' Pro Plus package, and it is still under construction. Enjoy!
I haven't been writing that much about Mario, Star Trek, or science on this blog lately. Instead, I wrote about new technologies on The E Club. It doesn't mean that The E Club dropped the Mario, Star Trek, and science stuff and replaced them with technology, it means that you will have a better experience here at The E Club. This is another one of those entries, this time, being the greatest achievement in technologies on The E Club. A Universal Sign-in Box! This box was improved and tested a few minutes earlier in the Test Labs, a members-only page, basing the box on the Google sign-in box, and a code I found in Yahoo! Answers. I just "blended" a little bit of the Google box code, and all of the Yahoo! Answers code, to create... THE E CLUB'S UNIVERSAL SIGN-IN BOX BETA!
This box was designed to be based on a Google sign-in box, with a green background, dots in place of password letters…
Now that we have both Ask.com search technology and Google search technology on The E Club, Yahoo! Search has arrived! All of these search bars from different companies are on The E Club so you don't have to go to a million different websites to search one thing. You can get the codes for the search bars at the E-Store! The E Club is, after all, the Mario, Star Trek, and SCIENCE (INCLUDING TECHNOLOGIES) Website. Here are the Yahoo! Search bars: Yahoo! Web Search Bar:
Just like both of the Google Search bars in "Custom Search 2?," the above Yahoo! Search bar enables you to search the web, but this one allows you to search both the web and The E Club!
The E Club is going through this "search bar revolution" right now. It is going towards new company search engines like Yahoo! and Ask.com, and maybe more of Google, so there is now an Ask.com Search bar on The E Club (below)! (Note: The results are on Ask.com, not on The E Club.)
There's a SECOND Custom Search on The E Club? Well, not exactly. I just found a code for a Google-powered search engine where you can surf the web and The E Club. Here it is: (no longer exists) As you can see, it is powered by Google. I've seen this engine and Custom Search on websites all over, now. Next, I need to try this new thing out! P.S. You can hardly read the words next to the bullets, right? Well, the first word is "Web," so you can search all of the internet, and the second says "http://theeclub.info," so you can search The E Club.
The only difference with this search engine, CSII, as I call it, and Custom Search is that the results aren't on The E Club. Here is the link to the website I got this from: www.digitalpoint.com.
NEW FINDS FOR THIS SEARCH ENGINE: Search engines similar to this are given to Google AdSense users (including The E Club) where Google can display…
As you can see by the NEW Top Bar image, The E Club has switched to a convenient new service called SnackTools. With this, The E Club now has a cool Top Bar image and a photo slideshow on the front page. SnackTools has three beta divisions - BannerSnack, the free Flash banner maker; PhotoSnack, the free photo slideshow maker; and PodSnack, the free Flash playlist maker. The E Club only uses BannerSnack and PhotoSnack. PhotoSnack was used by The E Club just today.
Go on snacktools.com for details of all beta products.
New: If you want to help The E Club and The E Club Lite and purchase some cool stuff at the same time, now's your chance with The E Club's new E-Store! You can purchase FREE stuff in a few steps! Go to the second content block on the right of the regular text, and click on the link that says "Read More" next to a product and a segment of the description of the product.Read the description of the product, and if you like it, press "Add to Shopping Cart" below the picture and the description of the product, or, if there's a drop-down list of options next to that button and you want a product in a different color, style, etc., click on the arrow and find the option you are looking for. Then press Add to Shopping Cart.After that, the description of the item is still there, but this time, it says "Price: $0.00," and it confirms your order. Then press "Proceed to Checkout." It is a link to…
Thanks to Google and some searches, The E Club and its partner website, The E Club Lite, have some useful technology on them. The E Club Lite has Google Maps on it, Google Translate, and a Google Search bar, all thanks to Google. On here, there are Google Translate bars on it, and Google Search bars. With Google Maps, you can look for some place where you know where it is, but you don't know where to go. With Google Translate, you can translate The E Club and The E Club Lite into different languages. With the Google Search bars, you can search anything you want, right on The E Club and The E Club Lite!
If you've been looking around The E Club, you probably noticed that there are lots of YouTube videos. They contain information about Mario or Star Trek. There is also one on the front page for the Featured Music Video. They are all from Mario games, except for the Unification Special here on the Blog, and most of the screens have link versions somewhere on The E Club. At the end of each video, there is a list of related videos. Click on one to watch it on the screen. Go back to the original or look for more videos. Below is a video of the Mario game Super Mario 64. Enjoy! Also, most videos except for this one will be changed every month. After you watched a video, there are pictures of related videos below the regular screen. Click on one of them and the screen will change its video into the one you picked. To go back to the main video, just press the back button, (usually on the top…
Hey, visitors! Are you on some long vacation and you are bored? Well, you can have about *HALF THE FUN* from The E Club if you type in: www.theeclub.moogo.com on a Blackberry Phone or an iPod Touch! All of the tabs will be available, but things like the photo album block and the Mario Flash Games won't be available. Enjoy The E Club's Mobile Service! --News for this mobile service on May 1, 2010:-- E's source of technology backups for The E Club, The E Club Technology Developmental Service, (TECTDS) courtesy of Moogo, the creator of The E Club, has given both The E Club and The E Club Lite a special technology implanted in them that will make The E Club and The E Club Lite's quality on mobile phones, excluding the iPod, which already makes the quality show, so go on now! See the difference!
*This service is provided by The E Club Mobile Co., a division of The E Club.*