Site History

Site History

Last Edited: July 2008

Site Background

The Beginning and Beyond
Slipknot Metal was founded in 2000 by Ash. The first website was flash based with the use of Moonfruit.com. Moonfruit shortly started to charge its users a monthly fee and on September 28 2002 i decided to code the site in HTML and was hosted on a variety of free hosting service providers.

The Versions
In 2003, version 2 was released which was a huge improvement on Version1. Although i still hated it! So i quickly made another site later that year, and version3 was released. This layout started to get my site noticed and was improved again with version 3.5 since i didnt like the colour scheme. Version 4 was then made about a year later during the summer of 2004. This layout was the break through the website needed and was so popular that Slipknot Metal instantly became one of the biggest fansites on the web, and we instantly moved servers to cope with demand. During 2004-2008, alot of minor layout changes were made and the site is more popular than ever hosting a lot of information about the band.

In July 2008, after numerous layout attempts and development of over 8 weeks, Slipknot Metal finally released version 5.0, which we think is a step in the right direction . We feel we needed a new website to celebrate the release of the new Slipknot album: All Hope Is Gone and to honor that fact, the layout infact is called, All Hope Is Gone. The website is coded and written so much better and fluently. We've added tons of great new scripts to the Lyrics pages to make the page more user friendly. More new pages have been written such as the Nonagram and Slipknot Song list, etc.
(see layout pictures at bottom of page)

Version 5.1 was created about 2 weeks after the initial 5.0 header was made and before the version 5.0 was put online. We basically re-done the header so it was better and more sic. We replaced corey with an awesome pic of Craig and a re-designed Nonagram in the middle. We also added a shoutbox back to the site and moved the photos script to the footer because the side bar was getting cluttered.

Goal
The goal is to provide the latest news, the most unqiue pictures and an extensive video gallery for viewing and downloading. Slipknot Metal will and still is Spreading the Sickness to each new maggot that enters our site. Slipknot Metal will continue to run from years to come, aslong as Slipknot are still respected by all you fucking sic maggots.

Where are we?
Slipknot Metal is a WELSH fansite. Incase you dont no where that is, it's right next to England in the UK.

Expansion
Since Slipknot Metal got so big, that in the summer of 2004, i decided to release side project websites instead of cluttering up the Slipknot site with Stone Sour and Murderdolls.

Please check them out

www.stonesour1.com
www.murdermydoll.com

Other Info
Slipknot Metal is hosted on POWWEB

Layout Photos

Layouts1-3 are not proper screenshots because these were taking from web directories and not all images were still in existence so we've tried to get a good shot of our earlier website. Version 4.0 and above are exactly as seen.

Check out HIGH RES photos here

Version 1 (SPLASH)
slipknot metal version 1