LeeValleyLions.co.uk
Title
Lee Valley Lions EDI ice hockey - news, photos, player profiles, fixtures and results
Description
About this site...
This site was originally created as the Lee Valley Lions Nostalgia Site in January-March 2001, when it went live. I set up the site to remember the Lee Valley Lions team that played between 1984 and 1995, using my extensive collection of old programmes and memorabilia. The content was boosted with kind donations from other Lions fans and Lions players such as Vesa Pennanen. I totally redesigned the site in September-October 2004 in order to make standards-complaint code (XHTML Transitional) that would function with the widest array of browsers. The code was simplified and streamlined to make the pages load faster and more reliably. At the same time I added a theme changer to allow visitors the choice of viewing the site in Lee Valley Park colours or those of later-year sponsors, British Engine.
2005 saw the Lee Valley Lions reform. I began incorporating information about the new team into the site but it soon became clear from the forums that I introduced that the site's visitors were people interested in the new team, not the old one. As such, in September 2005 I decided to make the new Lions the main focus of the site and incorporate all the previous site content into a Team History section.
Photoshop CS and Fireworks MX 2004 were used to create the site design and graphics. Arles Image Web Page Creator was used in the original version of this site to create the photo pages (but the code was then modified and expanded as further pages were added). Photos were either taken/scanned by me or are used with permission of the copyright holder, where that person is known. All photographers and contributors have been credited on the relevant pages. In particular my thanks goes to Keith Berry, John Thorn, Jim Graves, Vesa Pennanen, Mike Ewer and Mel Grundy, all of whom have contributed two or more photos (many more in some cases) to the original Lee Valley Lions Nostalgia Site. All photos have been cropped/resized/adjusted using Photoshop CS.
