gofromhere.com - History

Work on building the 'BETA' version of gofromhere.com began in early August 2004 at some thirty eight thousand feet above the North Atlantic Ocean as the sites creator, Simon Jones, flew to America.

Simon Jones From his room in Hotel71 in Chicago, with spectacular views of city behind him, Simon continued work on the site to get the early BETA version completed and online as quickly as possible. Within two days the site was ready for 'soft launch' enabling Simon to get back to actually get back to enjoying his vacation in the USA.

While the name was fresh, the multi search engine concept was nothing new to Simon. Earlier in 2004 he sold a similar website that provided the inspiration and building blocks for gofromhere.com. With the seven years spent on that previous site, gofromhere.com already had a considerable experience to draw upon.

Simon Jones With the BETA version of the site live and being extensively tested, Simon enlisted the help of a fellow web designer, Michael Koch, to radically re-engineer the site. Michael himself was looking for such a project in order to have a 'real world' example of how to convert a table based HTML site into a modern CSS driven website for an article he was writing.

Although Michael's version of the site didn't look all that different to the BETA, it had essentially be completely redesigned from top to bottom. This new version of the site was faster loading, more efficient and W3C standards compliant. Simon then took the new XHTML version of the site and continued its development.

Each of the sites twelve featured search engines were re-reviewed, and a whole raft of new links were added to the site. With the extensive updates complete the site was ready for its official launch in December 2004.