Publicity
August 20th, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension in internet
magazine Com!Online |
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Several times in sequence the Star Trek Dimension had more than 500
pageviews per day - not without reason, as I found out thanks to the hint of a visitor. In
the newest issue (09/01) of the internet magazine Com!Online (the fifth most published German computer magazine), a
short article in the section "Bookmarks" with screenshot and evaluation
("very good") informs the reader about the Star Trek Dimension. This is the
first time that a more extensive report on this website is published in
the traditional media, after the Dimension had appeared in the link list of the German ComputerBild. |
Here is a translated version of the article:
"Humans and Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans, Cardassians and silicon-based
lifeforms populate the Star Trek universe. The final frontier - logged by Webmaster
in a mystic purple design. In several "projects", he collect for the fans
everything a real Trekkie needs: episodeguides, background articles, pictures and sound
files. He has turned his attention particularly to the episodes of "Voyager" and
"Deep Space Nine". The guides contain hundreds of files with up-to-date,
detailed information and reviews of the author. Time and again he takes a look behind the
scenes and discloses inconsistencies of the complex Star Trek saga. One of the highlights
is the LCARS database well-known among fans, which is based on the original design."
Open a larger, readable version by clicking on the screenshot. Also don't miss the
label right to the screenshot; it implies there would be a larger collection of
"GayTrek jokes" on this website ;-) |
Jun 11th, 2001 |
Trekstation gives award to Star
Trek Dimension |
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The Dimension has received the gold award of the German site Trekstation. Sincere thanks to the webmaster
Pascal Tillmans! |
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Jun 5th, 2001 |
Dimension receives gold award
from Starfleet Databank |
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The German Star Trek Site sf-databank.de
has givent their gold award to the Star Trek Dimension. Thanks to the webmaster! |
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May 4th, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension
"Website Of the Week" at Yahoo! Germany |
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Today, the probably most popular German internet portal Yahoo! features the Star Trek Dimension as Website Of the Week. According to
Yahoo!, this award is given to useful, funny, unique and attractive internet services. The
web editors explain their decision with the following, pretty comprehensive review of the
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"The final frontier - already at the times of Captain James T. Kirk and Mr.
Spock, Star Trek was a legend.
You should take some time, because at his website, Webmaster offers almost
everything a real Trekkie needs. In a multimedia-heavy, authentic layout, the visitor can
find a great deal of facts, background reports, pictures and sound files. He has
turned his attention particularly to the episodes of "Voyager" and "Deep
Space Nine". The author also takes a look behind the scenes. He tries to disclose the
inconsistencies and problems regarding the real of fictitious sciences of the complex Star
Trek saga, sheds some light on the reasons and offers solution proposals. One of the
highlights is the LCARS database well-known among fans, which is based on the original
design. The extensive project is completed by a free game simulating a phaser
practise." |
Mar 16th, 2001 |
New partner of Dimension: the
TrekZone Network |
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Since today, the TrekZone
Network is a partner website of the Star Trek Dimension. The TZN is one of the most
popular German "Star Trek" news site. Here you will mainly find daily updated
Star Trek news. Structured into 15 member sites the TrekZone offers in-depth and high
quality content on almost all topics regarding Trek. |
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Feb 26th, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension in
ComputerBild 05/2001 |
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In the newest issue (05/2001 from Feb 26th, 2001), the German magazine ComputerBild lists the Star Trek
Dimension among the "100 most current internet adresses". This is (to my
knowledge) the first time that this website is mentioned in the traditional media, after
both Fireball and Yahoo! as popular Internet portals have
featured the Dimension. |
Feb 28th, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension receives
"Paris Nights" award |
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The Star Trek Dimension has been given the award of Paris Nights.
Sincere thanks to the webmistress Elli, especially for her extensive comment on the site: |
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"We got a new winner! Star Trek Dimension is a unique work
of trek and webdesign. The content is creative and immense, and tackles many sides of
trek. From DS9 to Voyager, from cartography to the mechanics, you can all find it here,
together with link, pics, downloads and much more. The site is available in both English
and German. A must see for each trek fan.
It takes some time getting used to all the navigation symbols
and I must admit, I was confused at first. But the site map explains all quite well, so
you all can enjoy this page." |
Feb 18th, 2001 |
Three reasons to celebrate:
award of "Voyager Delights" received |
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The Star Trek News Site Voyager Delights has awarded its "Award of Excellence" to
the Star Trek Dimension, for the "time and efforts put into the website". Many
thanks to "Quie"! |
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#2: Ventury.de gives Dimension
its year 2000 award |
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The German Star Trek Site "Starfleet Intelligence Agency" has
given their "Year 2000 Platin Award" to the Dimension. This is the explanation
of the webmaster of the site:
"We have the opinion that www.stdimension.de
is a very extraordinary website, since topic-specific projects provide very in-depth,
unique information on the Star Trek universe. Moreover, the site has a very
convincing and clear layout. The design seems to beam you right into the Star Trek
universe, leaving you with the impression to be in the 24th century..."
Thanks alot! |
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And finally: Star Trek
Dimension exceeds 40,000 pageviews |
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Again the day has come the Star Trek Dimension can celebrate a new round
number of pageview: 40,000 since the counter was started in late August 1999. This
anniversairy is so special because the new 10,000 hits have occurred in less than two and
a half months, in contrast to 4 months for the last 10,000! This result was mainly
possible because of the constant increase of daily pageviews since December 2000, up to
140 per day in this month. Many thanks to all visitors and webmasters who have contributed
to the Dimension's success! |
Feb 5th, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension
"Website Of The Day" at Yahoo! Germany |
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Today, the German search engine Yahoo! features the Star Trek Dimension as
their Website Of The
Day. Beside a link Yahoo! visitors find a short description on the according page:"Star
Trek Dimension - Graphically complex site dealing with the series and the technology. (in Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Horror > Star Trek)"
With this mention, the Dimension finally gets a (meaningful) entry and a better
position (among "Most popular websites" of the section Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror > Star Trek)
in the well-known German index.
Therefore, it wasn't a surprise that the Dimension got the most pageviews up to this day:
414 according to Spacehits. |
Jan 24th, 2001 |
Bravo Fleet RPG gives web
design award to Star Trek Dimension |
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The largest Star Trek role play game in
the internet bravofleet.com has awarded their
"Bravo Fleet Award" to the Star Trek Dimension. Sincere thanks to Fleet Admiral
Mike K'Wor Bremer! |
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Jan 22nd, 2001 |
Star Trek Dimension receives
Cochrane Award |
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The Dimension has been decorated with
the "Cochrane Award" of the Star Trek site Starfleet Supply. Thanks to
webmaster Mike Riley! |
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Nov 27th, 2000 |
Star Trek Base decorates Star
Trek Dimension |
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The German Star Trek website Star Trek Base has awarded their price in gold to
the Star Trek Dimension. Many thanks to the
webmaster Christian Dittrich! |
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Sept 24th, 2000 |
Star Trek Dimension receives
Unimatrix 0-1 Award |
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The German Star Trek website Unimatrix 0-1 has decorated the Dimension with
their award in gold. Thanks to the webmaster of the site! |
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Sept 9th, 2000 |
Star Trek Lives Award given to
Star Trek Dimension |
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The Star Trek Dimension
has been decorated by the German Star Trek website Star
Trek Lives with their Star Trek Lives Ward.
Thanks to the webmaster Matthias Krackau! |
This site has been decorated with the
"Star Trek Lives Award" in August 2000!
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Aug 2nd, 2000 |
1st birthday of Star Trek
Dimension / 20,000 hits exceeded |
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Today is the birthday of the Star Trek
Dimension. One year ago the website was launched at www.stdimension.org,
and already about three years ago (September 1997) I've created the first pictures and
texts for the Star Trek Dimension projects. This anniversary is celebrated with numerous
updates and surprises - read more in the news. Here, however, I
want to thank all those who have especially supported the Star Trek Dimension, helped with
their suggestions and made the website more popular with their publicity during the last
12 months: Bernd Schneider of Ex Astris Scientia, Timo S. Saloniemi, Masao Okazaki, Lance
Nutter of The Trekker, Sebastian Lorenz, Heribert Ke�ler, Andreas Kuempel of the Mc-Kinley-Station and, of course, Michael Seither of STVK & Daily Trek. |
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These days, the Star Trek Dimension has
another reason for celebration: the 20,000. hit has been determined by the counter on the
main page continuously working since August 8th, 1999 (20 days after the online launch of
the site). That means that the Star Trek Dimension got 10,000 pageviews in only 4 months,
in contrast to more than 7 months for the first 10,000 hits. |
Apr 9th, 2000 |
10,000th visitor in the Star Trek Dimension |
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After only 7 months and 18 days, the 10,000th
pageview has been counted today on the frontpage of the Star Trek Dimension. The counter
had been established on August 22nd, 1999, about three weeks after the offical online
launch of the Star Trek Dimension on August 2nd, 1999. I'ld like to use this major event
as an opportunity to cordially thank all my visitor, especially those who gave support,
advice, suggestions, but also critical remarks and drove forward the development of the
Dimension how it looks today: Bernd Schneider, Lance Nutter, Timo S. Saloniemi, Masao
Okazaki, Matt and many others. The "online life" of the Dimension having started
8 months ago as a quite extensive, but still a lot smaller and more theme-specific site
(mainly as Star Trek database), it is now undoubtedly the more sophisticated and complex
in its topics. Furthermore, at the beginning, the site was rather insignificant with less
than a dozen hits per day, but in the meantime, the Dimension has nearly 70 pageviews per
day on average and has therefore established in the World Wide Web as an technically
orientated Star Trek website. Once again my thanks to all people who have supported the
Dimension, and to the next 10,000 visitors! |
Apr 2nd, 2000 |
Star Trek Dimension receives Sektion 31
Award |
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The German website Sektion 31 has given their award
for the month of February to the Star Trek Dimension. Thanks to the webmaster, Benjamin
Niermann! |
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Jan 21st, 2000 |
Corona newsletter #60 features Star Trek
Dimension |
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The newest issue of the largest German Star Trek
newsletter, the Corona Newsletter with over 8000
subscribers, contains an "WebWatcher" article about the Star Trek Dimension,
introducing the website with the following evaluation: "Die "Star
Trek Dimension" ist eine Webseite, die qualit�tsm��ig ganz oben mit dabei ist. Ein
Blick lohnt sich also auf jeden Fall, denn es gibt in der "Dimension"
wahrscheinlich nichts, was es nicht gibt." (source: Corona Newsletter #60) |
Jan 11th, 2000 |
Star Trek Dimension among 5 finalists in the
Millenial Trek Award competition |
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From over 400 Star Trek sites, together with 4 other
sites the Star Trek Dimension has become a finalist in the Millenial Trek Award. An
excerpt from the announcement at the coordination site of the competition: "The
time you've all been waiting for has finally come!
Here are the finalists for the Millennial Trek Award's grand prize:
The finalist sites most voted were nominated favouring those sites with more votes,
higher cumulative rating, and greater number of unique voters. The site selected by the
Coordinator's warrant is a site deemed by yours truly to be worthy of consideration, but
has somehow not made site of the month, and is not well-known enough to have won the vote.
I want to make sure and go through every site in award scheme, so that I know I haven't
overlooked one. I will announce my decision as soon as possible here on the website."
(source: lcars.simplenet.com) |
Dec 5th, 1999 |
Star Trek Dimension recommended by the
search index fireball.de |
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The German search engine Fireball lists the Star Trek Dimension in the section
"Art & Culture / Film & Cinema / Film" on the very top of a page with a
recommendation. The description of the list item:
"Die Site ist ein absolutes Muss
f�r alle Fans der Kultserie. Sie bietet neben einem tollen Design eine riesige Datenbank
mit Infos �ber Personen, Schiffe und Equipment, au�erdem Episodenguides, Sounddateien
zum Download und vieles mehr." (source: Fireball) |
Oct 9th, 1999 |
Ex Astris Excellentia Award received |
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The Star Trek Dimension has received the Ex Astris
Excellentia Award for September 1999 from the website Ex Astris Scientia. Sincere thanks
to the jury, who explains its decision with the following evaluation:
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"This site is new on the web, yet,
the author, Webmaster, has spent almost two years for research and preparation. The
result is one of the most convincing Star Trek sites. Star Trek Dimension's database
covers virtually everything you always wanted to know and even more - or have you ever
heard of a Nesterowicz particle emitter? The information is embedded in a well-working,
fast-loading and visually pleasing LCARS menu. In addition, the projects section offers
several in-depth discussions of various Trek topics, by far exceeding a mere reproduction
of known facts. Have a look at the Subspace Manual and Star Trek Cartography which succeed
in assembling the puzzle pieces of canon info to a picture of the Star Trek Universe. We
especially appreciate the balance between the richness of information and the graphical
presentation throughout the whole site. Currently Star Trek Dimension is mostly written in
German, but the author is frequently translating new sections to English. If you look for
more than just Trek information, this site is highly recommended - once you have
discovered it, you won't leave so soon." (source: Ex Astris Scientia) |
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