![]() 25 years of Andalucia.com 17th of April 2021 |
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HAPPY 25th ANIVERSARY - ANDALUCIA.COM
17th of April 2021
Andalucia.com held a Webinar to celebrate their 25th Aniversary on the 17th April 2021.
Introduction Flamenco Video
The 4 minute countdown introduction was specially filmed for the occasion. Thanks to Peña Flamenca Estepona for extending to us the use of their stage and facilities. Thank you for the beautiful dance and kind words by Eliza González and traditional guitar music inspired by the poetry of Gabriel Garcia Lorca coposed and played by Gaspar Rodríguez. The video was captured by Frank Knipschild of Quanvision with sound recording by Hugo Toscano. If you would like watch it again we will embed it soon on this page.
The webinar opened by the master of ceremonies Martin Sutton, Managing Director co-founder of TLDz (Top Level Domains Zone) Martin is a former risk manager for HSBC Group, managing the global domain name portfolio and risks associated with online fraud and security, brand protection and enforcement. Martin also led the bank’s application for the .hsbc top-level-domain. TLDZ helps companies safeguard their critical digital assets.
Founder, Chris Chaplow presented ‘Andalucia.com - first 25 years’ sharing, visuals and anecdotes from the 25-year journey. The 'Keynote' presentation was based on the presentation beautifully created by Sarah Gatward for our 20th Anniversary. Chris removed some of the swish transitions for this Zoom presentation edition, however the content was the same Thanks also to Andres Lopez Sheridan for help with webinar sound and production beind the scenes.
Here are some useful sources and references from the presentation.
Tizz.com was Chris' first domain name and website launched on 25 October 1995.. Chris mentioned he attended Search Engine Strategies Conference - London. He still has the conference workbook and Google is not even mentioned. It is all alta Vista, Excite, Webcrawler, Yahoo.
In Search of Andalucia - informative and humorous travel-book covers the Málaga Seaboard. authors Chistopher Wawn and David Wood. Illustrated by Michelle Chaplow Launched at Hotel Puente Romana in Marbella April 2000.
Andalucia Calendar, here is the website of the calendar inspired by James Whaley of the Hurricane Hotel in Tarifa. We do still have a few collectors copies in the office if anybody is interested.
Andalucia.com Forum was set up by student, now BA Captain Edward Chaudry in 2001.
On our 10th Anniversary we returned to Villa Tiberia Marbella.
Andalucia.com is powered by Drupal Content Management system and hosted by Blacknight in Ireland.
The Jerez Strategy Day held at Casa Viñas de Alcántara, Jerez.
20th Anniversary - Treasure Hunts in Estepona and Casares and visit to the Corominas Necropolis museum.
Coronavirus in Andalucia, News and Statistics about Coronavirus in Andalucia. A regularly updated page that received 20.000 view a week.
Andalucia.com is currently fourth most popular Travel Destination Website worldwide.
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25th Anniversary Toast
Thank you to everybody who tuned into the 25th Anniversary webinar. We look forward to many more years ahead.
Chris, Michelle and the Andalucia.com team