History

In May 2002, Vineet Chaudhary (Sultan) created ClanTemplates after becoming aggravated at the constant requests by other clans to make good looking layouts. Knowing full well that gamers and teenagers don't have deep pockets, clantemplates.tk was created in order to serve the Age of Empires 2 community for free. Within one month, requests for templates from other games such as Asherons Call, Age of Conquerors, Counterstrike and others began pounding the CT message boards. Andrei Martchenko (Pac) and Arihant Jain (jainarihant) became admins in 2003 and helped shape the beginnings of CT by managing the staff and fullfilling the demands of these gamers. In the summer of 2004, Joe Hansen (Nakor) joined as Senior Programmer and quickly moved up the ranks to become an admin and managing the security and integrity of the network. Most recently in 2005, Serenity (Melissa Mancuso) amazed the CT community with her dedication to designing and was awarded the admin position to fullfil larger goals of the network.

Starting with a 10mb AT&T personal hosting account in the beggining, the site quickly progressed to being sponsored by a hosting company and outgrew the sponsored bandwidth within a few months. The ClanTemplates.com domain was then sponsored by another individual in return for a custom layout.

Although we no longer make layouts for domains, favors or linkbacks, we have not forgetten our humble roots. Today the ClanTemplates.com network runs on two dedicated servers with 2.4tb bandwidth capacities and 100mbit lines and we continue to strive in providing high quality templates, signatures and renders for gamers and designers for no charge. ClanTemplates.com staff is renowned in the gaming world and our admins manage the constantly growing member base and serve the community to the best of their abilities.

The Network

There are a number of sites that fall under the "CT-Network" umbrella. Below is a list of all sites that are either owned, operated, or sponsored by ClanTemplates.

The Vision

Ever since Clantemplates was created our main aim was to provide free templates for clans and gaming-related websites. Since that time we have expanded into many other areas but our main goal has stayed clear; we aim to provide free and easy-to-use resources for people who are unable to create quality designs themselves.

In the coming years we hope to expand into other areas that will include the general public in our aim to bring free resources to others. We are constantly developing the CT website and community and in turn our community and website is constantly growing. Our current aim is to achieve 100,000 registered users. This may seem like a large amount but with the current speed of growth it is definately achievable.

Keep your eyes open for new features and sections at Clantemplates.com.