Volleybox.net History

What were the beginnings of Volleybox.net? History of Volleybox.net written by one of the creators.

In October 2006 I recorded several amateur movies during the Poland - Cuba game which was the final test of the Polish volleyballer's form before going on the World Championships in Japan. Proud of my works I placed it on the Video Google portal and added them to several sites collecting the best films in the net. I noticed then that there is no site in the Internet which would gather films exclusively on the subject of volleyball. Some time later I entered on YouTube a profile by a user from Canada who in his "favourites” collected the best movies about volleyball. This way the idea of creating Volleyball-Movies came to my mind.

I began working on the site in May 2007, however after several days I realized that the basic knowledge of HTML is not enough to create an Internet portal. To do this it was necessary to know the language of PHP and databases. I turned for help to my colleague from the contemporary high school class - Paul. Paw-e-l finished the layout of the site and enabled the possibility of adding movies to the database. Neither I nor paw-e-l did not think about further co-operation at that time. A very simple site on which one could only send propositions of movies and watch them, was placed under the link www.volleyballmovies.pl. 14th July, 2007 - this is the official date of starting Volleyball Movies.

The first movie which was added on the site was a movie about Marshall. It turned out later that uploading the movie was the best decision ever. No other movie did not popularize our site as much as this one. The secret consisted in the fact that the movie was placed on the Video Google portal and not as majority of movies - on YouTube. While watching movies on YouTube it was very easy to get the direct link, however in case of films from the Video Google it was impossible, therefore someone wanting to see Marshall's incredible elevation had to enter our page. The link to our site appeared on many foreign portals and forums about volleyball.

The popularity of the site encouraged us to introduce next news and ideas. We discussed with paw-e-l new ideas concerning the site during school lessons... Paw-e-l added the option of finding movies and automated the option of highlighting the movies on the main page. On 24th December 2007 the site was visited 100.000 times. On 14th January 2008 we added the possibility of placing comments on the page. Volleyball Movies has had the most popularity, and till this day nothing has changed in this matter, in Poland, however the page was visited also by many Americans, Canadians, Germans and Frenchmen. The first movie creator was volleybalon, then our team was enriched by the person of a volleyball fan from the Greek Patras - kaka199322. After one year of existence in the Internet the page was displayed on top positions in Google (however exclusively under the key word " Volleyball Movies”). At that time, the period of validity of the domain was coming to an end. As poor students we wanted to save money not prolonging the validity of the domain, but repurchasing it one more time. We did not know about the existence of men whose work is to buy other popular domains (and they have the right to do it). Our ignorance was punished. The volleyballmovies.pl domain was repurchased and till today it is a "parking of links”. We decided to begin everything all over again. From the beginning we built the position of the portal in the Internet. On 30th September 2008 the portal was launched under a new address: www.volleyball-movies.pl. After about 3 months majority of the former visitors found out about the new address of the site.

As time flied new ideas of page functioning were coming to our minds. Paw-e-l proposed creating a new version of the site which would operate the system of users. The graphic project was finished around April 2009 and works over the functioning of the site paw-e-l began during last year's holidays. The new version of Volleyball-Movies.net was launched on 6th October 2009 and it was paw-e-l's work. Since that moment I have been inventing new ideas with which I make paw-e-l miserable, because he has to implement it on our page :) The newest functionality of the site are fanclubs (introduced on 25th September 2010). At present, we are thinking about adding a few options in the fanclubs.
The page possesses a team of 11 movie creators who create professional volleyball movies, popularizing our portal. The biggest role, however, is played by our fans who watch movies and for whom our movie creators make their works, and the administrators introduce new ideas on the page.

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