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About Digi Legends

Below is a brief history on the origins and history of this Digimon Frontier and Digimon Savers fan site.

On Saturday, June 14 2003, my first Digimon Frontier fan site was published on the web. It was called: The Digimon Frontier Network, and was hosted by Andrea of Dark-Stars.net.

I created TDFN for the following reasons:

• Many sites had rubbish content and many new ones at the time copied content from the few good ones that existed. I wanted to create my own unique character profiles and screenshots.
• Many people responded negatively to Digimon Frontier compared to previous series such as Adventure, Zero-Two and Tamers. Despite this I still liked Digimon Frontier!
• The majority of Digimon fansites are American! Bring on the Australian ones!

The site flourished and became quite popular, averaging 1,000 unique visitors daily. Sadly, sometime in December 2006, I decided to close down the site. The reason I gave to my visitors was due to personal and educational reasons. The personal reasons originated from the forum I created to accompany the site. Tensions between various members I knew very closely had caused me to burn out in addition to my High School education at the time.

March 2009

After some intense restructuring and getting to grips with web design again, my Digimon fan site was officially reopened on Friday, 13 March 2009. A new layout was created, and the site was renamed to: Legendary Digital Warriors.

Two major changes occured during this transition:

• Own domain and web space - fully paid for annually with greater freedom in bandwidth and storage.
• New Image Gallery setup - Coppermine Image Gallery is must faster than our old gallery system, and provides a far better commenting system.

Back in 2003, Digimon video downloads on this fansite were very popular because YouTube didn't exist until 2005. After all, streaming video back in 2003 was quite undesirable as the majority of Internet users were still on dial-up! Upon reopening this Digimon fan site I soon realised I needed to add more unique Digimon Frontier content that was difficult to find elsewhere. The Digimon Frontier Manhua is perhaps the most unique content I have ever added to this Digimon fan site because you simply could not find it on any other Digimon fan site online. It was well received so I believe there is still demand for such illustrations.

January 2010

The majority of changes made to the Digimon fan site in 2010 were geared towards the layout. Traditionally every layout I had created used tables! Back then it was the norm, because CSS support was not cross-compatible between browsers at the time. In addition many WYSIWYG editors and graphic programs encouraged this practice by outputting tables in page design through image slicing. Old habits are difficult to break!

So I decided to create a new simple layout using CSS without tables. I won't go into the technical details but it was a pleasure to code, and the load times were significantly improved.

The site was later renamed to: Digi Legends with it's own domain! This was done so the site could shift away from it's main Digimon Frontier name to allow it to focus on other series.

Name Change

On 21 February, 2010 the site name was changed to Digi Legends.

This was done to shift away from the pure Digimon Frontier focus, but also to give the site for the first time its very own domain. In the past subdomains were always used, so it's quite a benchmark!

Jedi_Amara, webmaster of Crest of Hope: Patamon's World is to be credited for coming up for that name after I spent days thinking of the perfect name. She only took minutes to refine it from my large list of ideas!

Digi Legends Vision

My goal is to make Digi Legends the biggest Digimon Frontier and Digimon Savers fan site out of the few remaining Digimon sites that remain on the web. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions or constructive criticism then please let me know using the Contact Form.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated!