THE SITE:
Well you've come to the place where I can finally speak about the site,
about SchizoGeri.
CURRENT VERSION: 6
CREATED: November 1st 1999 (The day Lift me up was released)
WEBMASTER: Santiago N.
LOCATION: Bogotá, Colombia
LANGUAGE: English. (Although the first ever release of SchizoGeri was in spanish)
NOTES:
SchizoGeri is the only Geri Halliwell site that has won the 'Celebrity Site of the Day' award on January 31 2001 ( www.csotd.com ).
We were on a period of hiatus for 18 months where the page wasn't updated because the webmaster was too busy with university work.
SchizoGeri is the longest-living Geri Halliwell site onlineVERSION 6:
You are currently looking at SchizoGeri V6. SchizoGeri 6 was born when the webmaster decided he wanted to continue working on his Geri Halliwell site for more time. The layout had been worked ages ago but the content wasn't ready. Santiago's computer was full of unfinished designs all of them eager to see the light one day. Finally the gray one called his attention and he managed to finish the whole site in record time. Using basic tools such as Microsoft's FrontPage and Jasc Paint shop pro the site was completed.
The version 6 of SchizoGeri is the one that makes the webmaster most proud of because he dedicated lots of time and hard work to get this version running. It's the first time the webmaster uses iframes in a website of his.VERSION 5:
CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE SITESchizoGeri Version 5 finally emerged on the middle of 2002. Probably not the best design from Santiago. He never felt too happy with the site although it kept the basic idea of all of the websites that he had created before. Simple and easy to surf was what he always intended. The site did quite good while updated in spite of the fact that some sections were undone. Santiago graduated from high school and time to keep the site running and updated was less everyday. The site wasn't updated anymore from the early 2003. This version of the site was hosted in Tripod. A pretty good server that months after the design was released filled every single page in the site with annoying ads and pop ups. The longest living design of this site, almost 2 years.
VERSION 4:
CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGEThe version 4 of SchizoGeri is one of the versions that the webmaster was most proud of. Using an idea and basic designing tools Santiago got a great looking website. The website was one of those that had it all. An incredibly big information zone and a really cool interactive area were two of the best features SchizoGeri 4 had. The page was online for about 9 months. The visitors kept coming to the site in a rush because it was probably the best Geri Halliwell site of the time.
VERSION 3:
CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO ENLARGEThe idea of a simple basic design not only brought Santiago to use frames for the very first time in SchizoGeri but also to use green which was not an easy color to work with. The site was recognized internationally as one of the best Geri fan sites online and won many awards not only from Geri/Spice sites but also from people who knew about fansites. This version of SchizoGeri was online for about 10 months and certainly made it possible for us to become a big Geri website. This version of the site made it possible to us to reach the 140000 visitors limit we had when we started.
VERSION 2:
The always good looking orange-black website. We basically took the ideas we had from the first english version of SchizoGeri and redesigned and organized them. It was nice to see the website complete and great looking. We moved to a better free server. The fact that we were the most updated Geri website online made it possible to reach daily visitors of about 500 on low days and over 1000 on good days. The design gave room to the new version that looked fresher and cleaner..
VERSION 1:
This version was originally going to be launched on February 1st, but I had it all ready before January 15th, I just looked for a server that gave me more than 15 megs and an easy to remember address, There was Free servers, It had a lot of advantages but a lot of disadvantages too, the best thing I saw in freeservers was the file manager, It was cool, the address .8m.com was also cool, I began uploading. I didn't like the banners that Freeservers put on the top of each page but what could I do???...
In January 31st I got an e-mail from Celebrity Site Of The Day that said that We had won the Celebrity Site Of The Day, I was the first Geri site that won this award, I was really happy, It was wicked... A beginner page just won one of the most famous awards of the net of entertainment sites. SchizoGeri also entered something that was called "The 500 Teddy Bear Sites Of The Day" at number 2, It stayed there for a while....., The page soon became a bigger site.... Geri released Bag it up during this design so I decided to make a special design, It was purple and pink , quite nice.... Everything went back normal and then I decided to make a new design , I had a big idea , and I made it reality..... I just had to say bye to the blue and yellow design.... It shut down on March 31st 2000SPANISH VERSION:
The page online lasted online 3 weeks. The server where it was hosted didn't show visitors the update that Santiago made. It was always updated but no-one could see the news or the new wallpapers or the new pic of the week. During those 21 days Schizo:Geri got over 200 visitors. Not bad for a beginner with such a bad site... The graphics were made in Powerpoint... The design was made in FrontPage express...
THE UNRELEASED DESIGNS:
Here are some unreleased designs we had. They were never finished and ended up being forgotten in an old folder in our computer. Check them out (Click to enlarge)
