Club Explore goes LIVE!!!

29th September 1.40 pm

Nearly 3 months after the development for the website began its finally ready to go live at 2.00 pm

A Website one may think is so trivial, there are hundrends of tools which can create slick websites within a couple of minutes and yet its taken us such a long time

Well there is another story with the website. Our first attempt at creating a website began in december of 2006. The idea was simple, quickly learn some powerful language of the intenet like perl, java etc and to toil day and night to develop unique designs and features and create a great site. We are indeed a set of very hard working people but then there is something called as doing smart. After trying to create some "Hello World" programmes on perl we realized the website would take a generation to develop. We then started looking at alternatives on the net and Eureka!! we found Joomla. Joomla is a powerful way to create a heavy content website or what is called a Content Management System.
Finding Joomla was like finding wings to fly over delhi traffic. We quickly began evaluating the various features of Joomla and how we could develop a website with it. However we realized soon that developing on Joomla a system that requires a very strong database support would not be easy. The wings were too small they just couldnt lift us off.

In May of 2007 the MBA grad who had started earning from a high profile job now decided that in order to pursue his dream seriously he would require professional support. Somebody who could worry about design, security and host of other issues. This required money and quite a bit of it. At that point a freind came to help, he decided to invest too, although he dint believe completely in the idea but he still decided

The Wings were back in business!!
Its one minute before 2 pm
See you in the virtual world

The Search

Who knows there must be some billion pages on the internet originating from some million sites. There are sites on every conceivable thing from details about ancient vimanas to how to grow fat. In this chaos of websites, how to come up with some website different from others?

We need to go back a bit in time somewhere in 2004, when one of us gestated the idea of Club Explore as an adventure club in the city of bangalore, directed at the students of various colleges in bangalore. The idea was to create a community of adventure enthusiasts, provide them with some basic training and then go out on weekend trips to close by destinations.
The club had a good response but could never see the light of the day. Why, u may ask. Each one of us dreamers stood on the typical cross road that life offers. Whether to choose between the safe haven of an MNC or risks and difficulties of a business?
With no experience and just a degree the idea took a back seat. Fortunately or unfortunately that only time will tell, the conceiver of club explore went on to join a very reputed chip design company in bangalore, while his friend went to join an reputed MBA school to enter the rat race some time in future and earn a comfortable income to make himself happy. Like the first love the thought of club explore never left the eyes. The MBA school grad made a business plan and sent across to various competitions but none of them showed appreciation for it.
Einstein had once quoted, 'Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.' We are no Einstein but then what the hell lets do it!!
And so the idea clicked in the head of the MBA school grad was the idea of the website and club explore merging together, and hence The Search came to an end…