An Introduction Survey

Here are my answers:

Name: Megan Jack
Age: 25
Occupation: Web Courseware Developer
Website URL: http://www.meganjack.com

What are your webmastering specialities? I consider myself to be a designer/developer - I love the challenge of creating something that's functional and attractive at the same time. Along with that comes an interest in usability, globalization, things like that... I'm not much into the promotion and marketing side of things.

How did you get started? It was the summer of 1997. I downloaded Nestcape Communicator Gold and was very excited to find out that Wow! I can make my own web page! So, I started on something in Composer, proceeded to get frustrated with the program and its limitations and got into the code pretty quickly. Then I was lucky enough to get a great co-op job doing intranet work and went on from there.

What else do you like to do? Hmmmm.... lately I've been spending a lot of time outside - swimming, lying in the sun, having a beer on the patio with friends... getting a great tan in the process! I like to read a lot too, watch sports on TV (I'm a couch jock!), do crafty stuff...

Name: Marc James
Age: 15
Occupation: student, web developer
Website URL: http://www.sports-central.org / http://www.sportscentralboards.com
What are your webmastering specialities? I deal with managing the day-to-day responsibilities of running a large content site. I update the site daily with cutting-edge sports fan analysis, insight, and commentary that goes beyond the scores. I also manage the Sports Central Message Boards (SCMB).
How did you get started? I was inspired off other web sites and my cousin who had one prior to me. I started off on a Geocities address - my current site was my first site, it was evolved a lot. I have had other sites along the way, though.
What else do you like to do? I'd love to do something in the computer industry, which I love, or possibly a sports journalism career.

Name: Richard Baugh
Age: 21
Occupation: Web Designer / Developer
Website URL: http://manic.room41.net/new IE version can't be bothered with the Netscape or Opera versions yet. Time thing.

What are your webmastering specialities? I pride myself on been unique. I keep upto date with most web related news and keep a cloes eye on the usability "code". I can make any sort of site ranging from simple html basic pages to fully working personal organisers with the works.

How did you get started? The beginning of 2000 is when I started to show an interest. I wasn't really bothered with the web all that much before then, THEN i saw some friends messing around with pages and thought... cool. I started with geocities, page builder and those sites were more than crap, then i found out about html and pretty much straight after i moved on to more advanced languages, and to sum it up... here i am today.

What else do you like to do? Getting pissed and going out on the pull is always good. My hobbie is making web sites but I do that all day at work anyway's so it's not so much of a "big" part of my free time. When i'm not socialising i'm busy playing quake online or just for a laugh.

NAME: Detox (not that proud of my name I want everyone to know it!)
AGE: 27
OCCUPATION: Web Development Engineer
URL: http://www.detoxdezigns.com
Specialties: I make a damn fine cup o' coffee! Design and front end work is what I love, I have had to get into asp pretty deep over the last couple of years or so and love it too. Basically I love working contracts for sme's (small to medium business'): designing and scripting the whole dang thing. After saying that I would say my speciality is not showing my clients what I really think of them when they are at their frustrating best!!
Start?: I got started in Web Dev because I was researching an essay at Uni on JFK assasination, I came a cross a really cool site (design-wise) and was hooked. Then when I needed to jump into a career to get money to finance my filmmaking i decided to get into IT. LOTS OF MONEY!! I did an Economics degree at Uni so I had to start basically from scratch. Got a contract with Compaq and BANG I was off!
Hobbies: Film-making, scriptwriting, anything to do with film. I love playing golf, watching the rugby and looking at the world from the bottom of a schooner of beer! And I keep my mind agile by coming up with excuses as to why I cant visit my wife's parents on the weekend!

Age: 21
Occupation: Yet another W-Developer/student
Website URL: www.kdive.ch (not official yet; in german)

What are your webmastering specialities?
well, i try to stay up to date with graphic and html stuff. but my heart's beating for perl.

How did you get started?
first of all i did some personal-pages (as hobby) back in '95. this time i worked full-time for a bank. in '99 i saw the job i have now, got it and did some learning-by-doing.

What else do you like to do?
there's not much time left, besides working and studying... some radio-shows, some reading, ... i really have to try not to 'work' too much...

Age: 29 (now I feel really old!!)
Occupation: Web designer (own company)
Website URL: south-online.co.uk
What are your webmastering specialities? Between myself and my husband we build websites for local businesses, including e-commerce stores & flash. We also do SEO work for them on a monthly contract.

How did you get started? I was made redundant from my bank job 2 years ago and out of boredom decided to build a website for the company hubby was working for (in Pagemill) which turned out ok & they liked it so I thought we could make money at this and as hubby is a natural born salesman (not the horrid slimey kind!!) he sells them & I build them. Still just the two of us although we've got soooooo much work on right now I don't know how we cope sometimes!

What else do you like to do? Although we are really busy work wise we are very strict with ourselves and make sure that we have at least a couple of hours a night away from "work" (hard when you also work from home!) I enjoy watching sci-fi stuff, DVD's and listening to music. We have just built a sauna and have a pool in the garden so enjoy both of those. Drinking vodka and hanging out with friends.

Name: taff
Age: 39 (feel better webmistress?)
Occupation: Web Designer
Website URL: sitesunseen.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
My strengths are in the design and usability department. I hand code HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc. I had every intention of expanding my personal knowledge to include more server side abilities such as Perl and PHP. I'd also like to venture into Flash. Unfortunately, one of the realities of self-employment is that there just isn't enough time for it all. As a result, I find it more cost effective to use the occasional subcontractor. Over time, I've developed a decent network of specialists.

How did you get started?
As a hobby really. I am a graduate of the University of View Source. I did a few personal sites as a learning vehicle and then a pro bono site for a local non profit group. Suddenly, people were paying me but I was having a hard time juggling this with the day job which I despised and was keeping me away from home too much. One day I sat down, did the math, and quit the day job.

One task I do not enjoy is sales. So recently my wife has come on board as my Sales Manager.

What else do you like to do?
Like the Webmistress, we are a couple working together at home. It IS tough to draw the line between work and play but we manage. I am a fan of jazz music, good movies, good food and good scotch. I'm also a fairly avid computer gamer.

Name:
My name is Loreta Robb
Age:
^^(^% lolololo
Occupation:

Full time at a lot of things, but most recently, as an IT student,2 years, in Perth, Western Australia
Website URL:

in process

What are your webmastering specialities?

I have figured out streaming music real well lololo

How did you get started?

accidentally stumbled over a computer 2and half years agolololo

What else do you like to do?

I enjoy playing UnrealTournament ocasionally with freinds, when the time allows, helping mates with probs on their computers, setting up OS'S for them, PhotoShop,Photography,the Internet.....

Name:Sonia aka:disastermaster

Age:36

Occupation:Paramedic-full time. Web design-part time.

Website URL:http://www.medicmom.com is my very first web site. I am a little ashamed of it but what the hey. I haven't updated it in forever. *shame*
My new business site is under major construction.

What are your webmastering specialities?I don't really "specialize" in any of it. Just give it my best shot to do it all. I have done a lot of reading on usability and color and hope to specialize in this. I also love DHTML but have learned that it doesn't work well with anything but IE.

How did you get started?I started homeschooling my daughter and collected so many favorites that they were cluttering my hard drive so I decided to build a web site to put them on. Hence...medicmom.com

After doing a site for a local fire department I was encouraged by a friend who had a web design business several years ago to start my own. He gave me tons of graphics programs, built me a smokin computer, helped me get set up as a reseller and said, "You can do it!"

What else do you like to do?I spend time with my daughter, participate in a remote control airplane club and am a volunteer and Instructor for a local fire department. I also spend lots of time in classes to keep my Paramedic license current and training up to par. I would like to get good enough at web design so that it can be my full time job when I get too worn out to be a medic.

Name: David J Webb : AKA DavidJaymz

Age: 21

Occupation: 3rd year Aerospace Engineering Student

Website URL: http://www.davidjaymz.com
not much there but lots more to come. Also nuneatondancentre.co.uk will be up soon...

What are your webmastering specialities? Not much. trying to learn lots at the same time JavaScript PHP perl etc etc...

How did you get started? Making a website so that I could trade my bootlegs... Now I'm making a website that will have everything on it, music, space, forums...

What else do you like to do? Learning to snowboard, reading all things space...

Name
Eric Roberts
Age
16
Occupation
Student, Hopefully Soon To Be Web Designer
Website URL
http://www.nearly-normal.com (Business Site, not open yet)
What are your webmastering specialities?
Tables =] I enjoy doing much of my work with tables. I suggest never opening the code of one of my sites, you wont be able to follow all the Tables =] Other than that I believe just generic HTML (not that special really...) and making it all look good. I also think of myself as good with CSS and matching link colors with layouts well.
How did you get started?
Wondered how I could make a web site like all the neato ones I was looking at. Then found Netscape Composer on my HD and used that for a while. Got hosted on Xoom (aka NBCi). Never did any work through Geocities or any editors like those. I pride myself in that fact.
What else do you like to do?
I would like to manage my own servers in the future, but as for other stuff I like to do now, mostly normal teenage stuff -- friends, parties (them nerdy ones where we watch TV and play computer )

Name: Shane Butcher
Age: 27
Occupation: Auto Mechanic 10 years
Website URL:http://www.jvj.addr.com
What are your webmastering specialities? Learning the ropes.
How did you get started? Love to create things. To see all of my hard work be admired and used.
What else do you like to do? I play with my 2 children, they're so much fun!!

Shane

Name:
Ben Michels

Age:
18

Occupation:
Student/Website Creation

Website URL:
Zacrifice.com (its coming soon)

What are your webmastering specialities?
Graphics, CGI/Perl, PHP, C++, ASP, Java, HTML, Javascript, DHTML, Wap, XML, CSS, Unix/Linux, IIS and Flash

How did you get started?
I got a computer about 7 years ago and go started from there i have just grown and then i found the internet.. and looked at all the sites i Could within a short time i ran accross Designsbymark.com and see everything he had done and when to all the links from his site and was amazed at what i was seeing so i learnt how to do Graphics and use my imagenation better hahaha

i then started hearing about Something called Programing was courise So i learnt it then Unix come then Linux and IIS so from there i went on and on and on and on hahaha

What else do you like to do?
I like taking Photos Mainly Stock type Photos sometimes portraits reading.. going to the beach (i like getting my arse burnt to a crisp LOL )
and other things i cant think of right now

not new, but anyway ...

Name:
anti
Age:
27
Occupation:
software engineer, mediator
Website URL:
loads, try http://www.webhome.de/anti/ for "my spot"
What are your webmastering specialities?
scripting, large sites (with perl+wml),
scripting, dynamic sites,
scripting, database based sites,
scripting,
and did I mention scripting ?
How did you get started?
huh ... that must have been in ... erm ... 1989 ?
A friend (a doctor) wanted to use (internetbased) email to keep his home and office systems in sync.
The whole thing is still running (now based on rsync).
In 1992 we started to sell ... ehm ... adult information via IP-based BBSs and that lead to the obvious....
What else do you like to do?
Snowboarding,
Riding my motorbike,
Skateboarding,
Drawing,
Writing,
Making the world a better place,
Teaching.

Happy ?

Name: Peter J. Boettcher
Age: 31 (Don't get me started!)
Occupation: Web Developer
Website URL: Personal: pjboettcher.com Work: unislumin.com

What are your webmastering specialities? I'm not crazy about the word "webmaster" but I consider myself to be very good at analyzing what a client needs, building an intuitive; but not boring interface, and then exceeding their expectations. Although it has nothing to do with the web, I'm also very good at doing the "I'm to sexy" dance!

How did you get started? When I got my first computer I immediatley learned how to program it (plain old BASIC and batch programming). Shortly after that I got involved with Desktop Publishing (it was HUGE in the eighties). Then I started learning Networking/mainframes/servers etc. Then when the web rolled around I found that I had almost a perfect skill set for programming/designing/installing for the web, kinda scary.

What else do you like to do? I love watching Formula 1, playing tennis, playing music (piano & drums), playing with my dog Bows, listening to good music, watching a good movie, playing video games, reading a good book, I WISH I HAD MORE TIME FOR THIS STUFF!!

Name:Mark Hensler
Age: 20

Occupation:
3rd year student, taking courses along the lines of programming, network administration, CAD, and whatever else catches my eyes.
Currently freelance web programmer. Looking for part time or full time work.
Website URL:
When I'm ready to publish it, it will be in my sig.

What are your webmastering specialities?
I also cringe when called a 'webmaster'. I prefer to stay server side, and leave the whole design thing to someone with an imagination. I 'specialize' in server-side scripting, and database design and integration.

How did you get started?
I don't remember. I played with HTML on and off all through JR high and high school. I then got bored of HTML, and wanted more. I remember seeing a clock on a website once, so I had to have on of my own. Found and tore appart the JavaScript that made it run. I basically went on a rampage 'viewing source' and dismantling it to find how it worked. That was the biggest part of my learning.

What else do you like to do?
I'm an intense online gamer. Spend a lot of time playing modifications for Half Life. Also play Age of Empires with my dad. I attend occasional LAN parties and whatnot.

Future:
I would like to sky dive and scuba dive before I take another nose dive. A 'beanless beanbag' just got here today from an Amazon order I placed. If that's any indication of how lazy I am right now. Unfortunatly, my life revolves around computers, and that's why I started this thread.

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Hensler
I also cringe when called a 'webmaster'. [/B]

Yeah, it bugs me too sometimes but I didn't know what else to put. And besides, this place is called the Webmaster Forums after all.

Quote: Originally posted by Megan Jack
Yeah, it bugs me too sometimes but I didn't know what else to put.

Webmistress????

Name: Adam La Rue
Age: 26
Occupation: Intranet Webmaster/ lead intranet design
for Fortune 25 Grocery Retailer
Personal Website URL: http://www.punkk.com
What are your webmastering specialities? Intranet design and usability. Jakob Nielson is my hero
How did you get started? I started doing websites for the bands i was in and was managing.
What else do you like to do?
I manage punk, ska, emo bands in Southern California. I also surf (going to Tahiti to surf for 2 weeks in March), snowboard (love the half pipe!)and hanging out with my hooligan friends.

Name:
Jack Michaelson

Age:
23, well actually tomorrow it will be 24

Occupation:
Student Interaction Design, Interaction Designer (parttime), freelance webprogrammer.

Website URL:
http://www.ruudonline.net

What are your webmastering specialities?
Give the people what they want, not what I want.

How did you get started?
I started to play with Corel Draw 3.0 when I was 12 or so. After a while that couldn't satisfy my needs, so I tried Photoshop and loved it (still). Then came the HTML and a bit later the CSS, javascript, ASP and a bit of ASP. Three years ago more and more people started to ask me if I wanted to desgin their interfaces (mostly for standalone applications or CD-Roms) and internet/intranet sites. Currently I have a parttime job (8 hrs a week), a study (40 hrs a week) and I'm working on three sites... and my girlfriend's complaining...she says she wants to see me more often (how could that be )

What else do you like to do?
I love snowboarding, indoorkarting and I very like to spin records. You could describe my style as 'From groovy Garage via obscure Deephouse to uplifting TechHouse with a little sniff of Trance"... My gods are Deep Dish, Danny Tenaglia, Zki & Dobre, Ferry Corsten and Armin Van Buuren who is actually a friend of mine since we were 12. He has a radioshow (A State Of Trance) on ID & T Radio. In that radioshow I present the Party Guide and I sometimes co-host the show or spin 1 or 2 records...

um....

Is that enough, or do you want to know more Megan?

:bday:

Party at Jack's place... He'll spin the records while the rest of us party.

Name: David aka Busy

Age: 32 in mid Sept

Occupation: Jack of all trades master of none, well ok of a couple. self teaching but sell framed pictures of stuff I've photographed over the years

Website URL: still using free hosts, nothing of real interest, maybe when i get my own domain ..

What are your webmastering specialities? I feel I am a natural in HTML, CSS and some dHTML, XHTML ... again probaly jack of some trades master of none

How did you get started? I was a freelance photojournalist but decided it wasnt me so slowly ventured into frelance photographer, I did some photos for a guy selling concrete birdbaths and gnomes etc that he wanted to post on a web site, I was curious as to how he wanted to use them (copyright and price etc) so had a look, it was a horrid site and thought I could do better, so I looked for a few HTM how to sites and started learning, even thou this was the first tiem ever on a pc, i picked up HTML real easy, soon to find myself teaching others, including my brother is is a computer engineer. I still have a long way to go but hopefully will one day work as a designer, or programmer. One of my main problems is trying to learn to many things at once when i should be doing one at a time.

What else do you like to do? still do photography for calendars, postcards etc when i can, dont enjoy it as much as i used to, when it was a hobby i loved it, when money, bills, paperwork came into it, it took the fun out of it some. i love riding trail bikes, love building model cars, was addicted to jigsaw puzzles once when i smashed me knee up, biggest ever did was 10,000 pce, can do a small 250-500 pce within an hour. I am a panelbeater (bodyman) by trade and love my pride and joy a '76 corvette which i rebuilt a while back, love hot rods, muscle cars ... I love to pull things apart, to see how they work, i still have an old clock i pulled apart when i was a kid, i keep it as a reminder that things can be put back together and work again (even thou this one is still in bits) and seems i love to ramble on lol

Name:
AhmedF [heh]

Age:
18

Occupation:
University Student

Website URL:
adswise.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
Dunno ... I am a jack of all trades, and a master of none

How did you get started?
First time I went online ['97], all I could think was that I also wnated a site.

What else do you like to do?
Secret

Name:
Keegan

Age:
31

Occupation:
Computer Consultant

Website URL:
Too many to list

What are your webmastering specialities?:
PS-4 yrs,DW 3 yrs

How did you get started?
In 1981 I made my first multimedia presentation with the land down under in Junior high school. We had a row of TRS80's, but we had one (cant remember the name, probally commodore, or apple workstation and with a timed tape of We come from the land down under, where women.... I made a music video to it, was pretty cool for age 11 and made everyone think I would be a computer wizard, I am just a hardcore web and computer tech today. I enjoy long hours in Photoshop and can easily whip up an 80 page site in 5 days. Logoing, navigation etc, maybe 4 or 5 tight php scripts. My love is photoshop and I enjoy making the sites I make in photoshop with Dreamweaver, melding those two applications into a web page is what I love to do. (thinks to self, databases, databases, NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO DA-TA-BA-SES! ARGH!, oh and if you see me say, Need Crack, BRB, it means I need some more Dr Pepper

What else would you like to do?
I hope to a have firm understanding in some sort of database and form programming environment. I am very interested in PHP and MySQL but find it difficult to devote the time to it enough to get the understanding to even work at bash with it yet.
Edit: Like the Crazy Irishman in Braveheart "Just answer the F*ing question" Misunderstood the last question, What else do I like to do? - I Mountain Bike up and down the river until I die, enjoy my two Yorkshire Terriers as if they were my kids, Drink Tankers Full of Dr Pepper, and listen to Art Bell. I enjoy visiting the beach, freezing, and sweating in a tent when I have a chance. I drink a no-whipped venti mocha about as often as I breathe. I think that is enough. WOW BONG ZING!

Keegan
coastdweller@Hotmail.com
886940 -icq

Quote: Originally posted by Keegan2
...with a timed tape of We come from the land down under, where women.... I made a music video to it, was pretty cool for age 11 and made everyone think I would be a computer wizard,...

I love that song! It always makes me really hyper. It took me forever to figure out what they were saying when they said "vegemite"!

I'm glad you all took the time to post this stuff - you all sound like interesting folks!

P.S. Sorry I missed your birthday Jack! Did you have some apple pie?

Name:
Marc (online, McPhilly or Philly) you guys can call me Mr.P , any of those will do.

Age:
17

Occupation:
Student, Freelance web dev/designer, part-time marketing guy for a local company, and anything that pays at the moment.

Website URL:
floppycd.co.uk
- my personal site to try and get work, I run other sites but I wont list them.

What are your webmastering specialities?
Urmm.. I hope im good at most of it.

How did you get started?
Project at college last year, had to build a website about our course. I've been offline twice since then, once for a coffee, and this weekend to go to a wedding

What else do you like to do?
Sleep, eat, smoke, drink, and telling clients to shove it. (only happened once, damn good feeling though, try it! ok, don't).
There is probably more, but I can't think.

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Here's a little getting to know you type survey. I hope everyone - whether you're new here or not - will post responses so we can get to know each other

[b]Name: Mike / kearsefreak
Age:30
Occupation:film director / throw stuff up on the web guy
Website URL: http://www.mikeashcraft.com, http://www.musicvideoinsider.com
What are your webmastering specialities?i'm a complete hack.....wouldn't say I have a specialty other than seeing a need and sticking with it until it gets filled.
How did you get started?needed site for my reels...created first site in Dec2000 and here I am
What else do you like to do?Direct, write, produce, webmaster, think, stuff, words, more stuff

So, post your answers and feel free to add more questions if you want. [/B]

Quote: Originally posted by McPhilly
[b]Name:
Marc (online, McPhilly or Philly) you guys can call me Mr.P , any of those will do.[/B]

Very nice name.

It is indeed.

French isn't it ? People keep trying to tell me it's Welsh
I was named after Marc Bolan (t-rex).

Nice to meet you Marc

Name: Steven
Age: 17
Occupation: Freelance Designer, and Local Computer Tech
Website URL: http://www.metatrox.com
What are your webmastering specialities? 2D, 3D, Webdesign, HTML, Interface Design, Flash Animation, and other stuff
How did you get started? about 4 years ago i got my first comp and i was already a paper artist and was amazed by what could be doen ont he computer.
What else do you like to do? Not much else really. i do a lot of church activities.

mjames, McPhilly -
You guys misspelled your names... it's suppose to be Mark. I can prove it too... read my sig.

2 on 1, I think your name is spelt wrong

Hi all,

I am Al (Toeng.com is my current site). I live in Columbus, OH USA. I am a college student, been working on graph des and web des for 5+ years now. I am an Asian, coming from Indonesia (a hot tropical country with lots and lots of coconut fruits).
I am graduating at March 2002 and so far, haven't found a job yet. I am working freelance for a IT consultant company (http://www.digital-atrium.com) now.

Anyway, my current site, http://www.toeng.com is for all GFX designers who do not have a medium to show their artworks or who wants to have more exposures for their works

=> yawning ...

Al, how's things in Columbus? I lived there for two years prior to moving here to Jersey. I liked it there, and more importantly, I had a cable connection rather than 28.8K here. You a Buckeye fan/student? I'm visiting your site now and am very impressed.

"Did you have some apple pie?"

No Megan, I was on a holiday and couldn't find in the stores there... I had strawberry pie... also very nice

Name: Ivana
Age: soon to be 29
Occupation: Youth Development Counselor & Web Developing
Website URL: http://www.rootssearch.net, http://ivana.hypermart.net, http://www.singleparentfriends.com, http://grab-it.hypermart.net, http://www.pa-roots.com/~lehigh/
What are your webmastering specialities?
Well...Good question....First of all, I like to design sites from scratch. I may use the Frontpage editor, but I find that manipulating tables and color scheming is rather the task. I also create my own graphics, headers, buttons etc. I never really liked taking from someone else. I also create my own Desktop Themes, Screen Savers, Web Templates, etc. I find that installing and customizing CGI Scripts is my strong point. Not too many people can handle CGI as others can handle PHP better. Oh well, that should be good enough to say.
How did you get started? I wanted to have my own homepage online, but things didn't work out when I had to learn html all by myself. I found a friend in England through a chat room that decided to help me out by creating a page and then teaching me little by little.
What else do you like to do?
Graphics, Web Development, Genealogy, History, Biographies, Arts, Reading, Dancing, etc etc etc.

Name:Japhi Ryder
Age:24
Location:Vancouver
Occupation:student

Website: http://www.coastangler.com

Specialties: ya right...total newbie learning as I go. I specialize in spending an amazing amount of hours getting relatively little accomplished.

Interests: cheap red wine, some good smoke and some Neil Young

What else do you like to do:I'm interested in website promotion/internet marketing and such.

I hope to learn alot from the members of this forum...looks like a real helpful group, and I look forward to contributing what I can.

Quote: Originally posted by Japhi

Interests: cheap red wine, some good smoke and some Neil Young

"Featuring Neil Young now on organ on the song that Neil wrote. It's called the Sea of Madness:

How can I bring you to the sea of madness
I love you so much it's gonna bring me sadness

I've never seen you through these eyes before......"
(Woodstock, 1969)

Just have to say that every time I hear "Neil Young."

Welcome

Thanks for the welcome Megan.

"Tell me lies later,come and see me
I'll be around for a while.
I am lonely but you can free me
All in the way that you smile"

Neil is God.

Hello everyone.

I stumbled upon this site yesterday and after reading some interesting posts, I thought that this could be a cool place to hang out on the net. Here is a little bit about myself...

Name: Sanj

From: Toronto, Canada

Age: 28

Occupation:Freelance Web Designer (soon to be Developer as well)

Website URL: http://www.sanjayparmar.com

What are your webmastering specialities? Photoshop, hand coding HTML,
Javascript, Flash, Illustrator, and Interface design.

How did you get started?

I saw a few pages when I first started surfing the net in 96 and thought to myself, "I should be able do something like this."
I remember opening up Netscape Composer and sitting on it for like 12 hrs straight until I finished my first site. After that, I was hooked.

I used FrontPage in the beginning, but realized that if I am going to consider myself a real designer, I should learn hand coding and thats what I did. Now I make a comp of sites in Photoshop, slice it myself using guides and then hand code using Allaire Homesite or notepad.

What else do you like to do?

I love to surf the net, work out in the gym, snowboard, go dancing to house music clubs, hang out with my wife and friends.

Look forward to speaking with all of you!!

Sanj

Welcome! That sounds just like the way I got started! I really like your site. Neat metal effects.

Name:armina kristine vicente
Age:20
Occupation:Internet and multiplayer lan game cafe manager and owner.
Website URL:www.2bc4u.com
What are your webmastering specialities?none so far... SOON!
How did you get started?i'm just starting!
What else do you like to do?surf, surf and surf... go to the other site forum, learn some PS tutorials on the net. and more!

Greetings & salutations

Although I cannot really consider myself 'new', I haven't been here in a while and it is kinda slow where I am -- so...

Name:Vincent Puglia
Age: a full deck, soon to have a joker
Occupation: breathing
Website URL: in my sig
What are your webmastering specialities? 'specialities'? None that I can think of.
How did you get started? It began in a bungalow at Coney Island, Brooklyn with a breath and a slap...oh, sorry..it began with an IBM 360/30...oh, you mean...had nothing to do one day, so I figured why not?
What else do you like to do? teach, learn, think, and remember how stupid I really am (the last being the most difficult to do)

If you really are interested in whom I am, search for my name in the various forums, specifically the web authoring/javascript one.

Vinny

Name: Marc D
Age: 22
Occupation: Network Admin
Website URL: http://www.graphicrevolutionz.com <-- not up
What are your webmastering specialities? Scripting
How did you get started? Did a site for brother When microsoft office first came out, and got sucked into other things
What else do you like to do? Movies, Travel,

is my intro hi everyone

Welcome to TWF Marc, hope you enjoy the forums.

Name:
Paul Curtis
Age:
31
Occupation:
IT Manager
Website URL:
Nothing completely mine except the intranet site
What are your webmastering specialities?
I'm really just getting started on the Web Authoring side of things but i've been maintaining web and mail servers for a while now.
How did you get started?
I got started when i helped a friend develop a site djdimension.com.au. I'm not doing the up keep but alot of the base stuff is still mine
What else do you like to do?
Work keeps me busy with lots of other computer and non-computer stuff but I make sure i go Hiking and camping often. I also love getting stuck into a good book and/or a good beer. And considering i'm about to head into another Australian Summer these will all be taking up a bit more of my time.

Nice meeting you all!

Welcome Paul, nice site btw!

Name: SABERk
Age: 23
Occupation: Network Adminstrator / Webmaster
What else do you like to do?

I like to watch sports. I live in Toronto, I am a big Toronto Maple Leafs fan. I also like Basketball.

Hello everyone, I am new here. I would like to introduce my self as SABERk. I hope to contribute and help fellow posters and hope that you too will return the favour! I am a Network Administrator, Webmaster and am currently on track to getting my Oracle OCP DBA certification.

Welcome to TWF SABERk, that's great that you're getting Oracle certified, you'll be able to help out in the database forum!

Welcome to TWF, seems we are getting a whole bunch of Canadians recently - has Megan been out press ganging???

We're just taking over, you know Welcome SABERk. I'm sorry that you have such poor taste in hockey teams

lol
and hey, where's the european part of TWF?!
jack, help me!

Am I no longer classed as European??

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
Am I no longer classed as European??

sorry, of course you are! probably more than i am as swiss guy...

Mmmm chocolate, yodeling and cuckoo clocks! hehe

I think I'm the most European person here.. I believe UK and Swiss don't go with the Euro on januari 1st, 2002 right?

switzerland doesn't even want to join the eu...
but that's political stuff...

so, we're three?

There are more of us in the UK. Mcphilly is one (Wales) and cute_chic51 is from London and I'm sure there are others but I can't think of their names!

As far as I know we aren't changing to the Euro either

Name:Guillermo
Age:21
Occupation:webmaster//neophyte UNIX nerd
Website URL:Don't look yet, it's a surprise -http://www.valleypages.org/
What are your webmastering specialities?:confused:I'm not sure I would be able to answer this question... I suppose it is services (finding services that mesh with sites) and HTML coding.
How did you get started?In 19ninetysomething, I discovered the internet thanks to my stepfather's dialup account and laptop. About a few weeks later, I made my crappy site on Angelfire. When I hit 19, I enrolled in Digital Imaging at my local community college and didn't learn much from them. Currently in a university, wanting to jump into Perl scripting and programming.
What else do you like to do?No work, no money, no life.

Welcome to TWF!

Thank you

Name: Karl Andrew
Age: 16
Occupation: Not sure, webmaster?
Website URL: [Not ready yet]
What are your webmastering specialities? Err.... HTML, JavaScript, Bit of PHP, Graphics to an extent.
How did you get started? Went out somewhere, and while walking thought, "How difficult can it be to make one of those web pages thingies?". Rest = history.
What else do you like to do? Lots. WAP, ASP, Flash...

Welcome TechSited! I can't wait to see your site when it's ready

Welcome!

Name: Sandra Barnes

Age: 19

Occupation: Webmaster, I guess..lol

Website URL: http://www.geocities.com/sab2000sab

What are your webmastering specialities? I don't know...lol I love making the graphical things on the site and do all the basic stuff. When I want to add complicated stuff and can't seem to get it going (which happens occasionally...lol) I yell for my dad to come get the bugs out! He is my "technical support" lol!

How did you get started? With Geocities Web Page Builder...(oh the shame!!!) It was up in about an hour, stayed up about an hour then my dad said "Take that down! You are going to learn how to make a webpage!"...lol So he sat down at one computer and me at the next one and he showed me the basics of coding. Then he left me with Coldfusion 4.0 and said have fun!!!...lol!

What else do you like to do? Well, I love to draw!!! You can look at some of my drawings at http://www.geocities.com/sab2000sab/sandrasart.html They are showed in a Java Applet so it might not work on all browsers... They don't look that good on the web, though! I basically like to do ANYTHING that has to do with art, graphic design, photography...you get the idea!...lol I love playing with Adobe Photoshop 6.0! I don't see how I got by doing graphics before without it!...lol I sing in a 300 person choir called the Michigan/Ohio Concert Choir. We just got done (this weekend) with our ten Christmas concerts! (Shooo, I am tired!!!) Other than that I enjoy life and try to help others do the same!

Welcome Sandra, you've got quite some pictures online

Name: Alahnna
Age: 30 (just turned)
Occupation: Marketing Communication Specialist
Website URL: http://www.aldabdesigning.com/

What are your webmastering specialities? Not sure yet.

How did you get started? 1997. Was delighted to discover that Netscape's browser package had a web page design program - Composer. Didn't like the lack of control and decided to learn HTML. At the same time I took on-line classes with ZDU to learn Paint Shop Pro.

What else do you like to do? Listen to music. Write. Take naps.

Question: So, does this serve as my intro or should I post a formal one?

No, that's great! I don't know if you read some of these further up, but that's excactly how I got started with web designing - Netscape's Composer!

Welcome to TWF Alahnna!

Hey Megan. That's too funny. What do you currently use to work on your webpages?

Thanks Jack!

My goodness you two! You have been around forever. I wish I had known about this place a long time ago.

Name:
Abhishek Reddy

Age:
16

Occupation:
Webdesigner, I suppose. Working on a site for a client (my first ). Also do part-time work for the school (maintaining network) - includes intranet for which I do some coding.

Website URL:
Been working on it for AGES... maybe someday.

What are your webmastering specialities?
HTML, JS, dHTML, ASP, PHP, VBscript, VB, C++, Perl, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop.

How did you get started?
First exposed to the internet three years ago at a cyber-cafe (in India). Got hooked on e-mail and chat. After moving to NZ two years ago, I started toying around with Yahoo Geocities Pagemaker ( blech).
The rest is typical: Read lots of tutorials, got better hosting, joined several forae, stayed up several times until 3am consuming dangerous quantities of Coke, blah blah blah. And here I am.

While not at the computer or at school, I read, read, read, play cricket/soccer/chess and write. I listen to music that I can actually make out the lyrics of first time .

Quote: Originally posted by alda.b
Hey Megan. That's too funny. What do you currently use to work on your webpages?

Homesite with a little bit of Dreamweaver

Name:
Bertie

Age:
26

Occupation:
Business man(I like to think I am)

Website URL:
http://www.itc2002.com
http://www.londonhousefarm.com
http://www.eurovat-refunds.co.uk

What are your webmastering specialities?
HTML, Dreamweaver, Fireworks.

How did you get started?
First surfed the net in 1994 and thought it was cool, then about 5 years later decided to make a site for my new business.

What else do you like to do?
Get caned.

Welcome! Do you mean caned or canned?

I think he means caned (past tense of cane) as in to get blotto/drunk as in enjoying oneself

Name: Robin Hall
Age: Nearly 25
Occupation: Web Developer / Sales&Marketing / Sales Mgt
(I work for a small company so I do a bit of everything)

Website URL: elandigitalsystems.com -
due to go live in january. I maintain pccard.co.uk but I didn't do the origional design.

What are your webmastering specialities? Um... I don't manage to be too specialist as I don't have as much time as I would like to concentrate on the web stuff. I like to think I can do a bit of everything. (Jack of all trades, master of none?)
I'm learning some PHP and I'm really keen on CSS though I've still got a long way to go with it.

How did you get started? At university - that seems a very long time ago now! I'd done a little bit, then one summer job they plonked me in front of a computer and said 'there you go, please build us an Intranet site'. I learned SO much stuff, the most important thing was that if you don't know, somewhere on the web you can find out.

What else do you like to do? Act! (I'm in the Bench Theatre, if you're passing by the South Coast of the UK and would like to come and see Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, let me know!)
I like baking to relax but too much relaxation is bad for the waistline.

Welcome aboard You must be from around Havant then???
Can't wait to see your new site!

Welcome to TWF! Nice to see more Brits around here

Name: mehdi iraqi

Age: 26 in february

Occupation: recent graduate looking for job

Website URL: designready.co.uk

What are your webmastering specialities? nothing really! i try to learn things depending of my needs.

How did you get started? it all started about 2 years ago when i was doing my MBA in london, i wanted to build a website for students at my uni schillerstudent.co.uk and i got hooked since then.

What else do you like to do? scuba diving, kendo, swiming, travelling.

name: yer price

age: gracefully, if possible

occupation: had enough 'a that in the forties

url: http://ememi.com

specialties: copyediting

how: applied for job teaching people how to build websites - figured I should know myself before interview

else: respond to questionnaires in web development fora

Name: Douglas
Age: 16!
Occupation: Designer/programmer
Website URL: http://redmelon.net/ (currently being re-designed..)
What are your webmastering specialities? err..well I look after a few peoples' sites, do a bit of design (currently doing a few peoples logos..one from this forum!) and PHP etc, experience with CPanel, Plesk, WHM, vB, Snitz Forum..
How did you get started? In notepad
What else do you like to do? AOE, badminton, VB ...and Girls (or even one in particular )

Want to know more?! I do interviews at $220/h!!

Regards,
Douglas

PS: this site is sloooooowww!!!

Name:Franco Frenette
Age:20
Occupation:Webmaster in the making , work at a bank also
Website URL:media-discounters.com
How did you get started? General interest and curiosity
What else do you like to do? Train

Oooooooooooh what fun!

Name: Sara

Age: 37

Occupation: Work-at-home Navy spouse and mom

Website URL: Work in Progress
Plus all the ones in my signature. And I just bought a new one for a blogging community.

What are your webmastering specialities? I'm just learning how to do scripts, learning CSS and PHP, but I'm good at the editing and making the graphics! DreamWeaver, Top Style and Paint Shop Pro are my best friends.

How did you get started? Back in '93 I built our first site on AOL. Then, Geocities. Finally we got our own domain, now I'm a domain junkie!

What else do you like to do? Read, watch movies, shop, relax with the whole family home.

Welcome to TWF you all!

Name: Wiliam Stephens

Age: 19

Occupation: Full-time Web Developer

Website URL: http://www.fbagroup.co.uk/ (company site).

What are your webmastering specialities? My speciality lies in Perl programming and database work to power sites, although lately I've been dragged into project management. I've always been a more of a hands-on kind of guy, and as I'm now managing a team I find it difficult to find time to go under-the-hood and get my hands dirty - which I really really miss.

How did you get started? Been working the internet since I was young. Been around on usenet, arpanet since I was 9 or 10. Fascination grew from my fathers keen interest and now I am a complete net junkie.

What else do you like to do? You mean there's a life beyond my monitor? Nah! I don't believe you.

Name: Mark Eckenrode
Age: 27
Occupation: Martial arts instructor
Website URL: http://www.abudokan.com
What are your webmastering specialities?I wouldn't say I really have any except that I'm quite good at learning while practicing. Oh yeah, you could probably say I have a mean cut-and-paste
How did you get started? I didn't like any of the other martial arts communities on the net so I built one that I enjoyed hanging out in
What else do you like to do? I love to read a good book though I honestly can't remember when I was last able to enjoy one. Always enjoy the sport of 4-wheeling. Love my dog (he's a 3 month old pitbull terrier named Kenobi. And, of ocurse, martial arts.

Welcome Mark! I'll have to tell my friend about your site - he's really into martial arts and things like that. He's got 3 black belts I think....don't remember exactly...

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Welcome Mark! I'll have to tell my friend about your site - he's really into martial arts and things like that. He's got 3 black belts I think....don't remember exactly...

Please do. I'd be happy to welcome him to aBudokan. And thanks for the kind welcome here.

Welcome to all the newcomers

**I have a black belt, but sadly its only to hold my pants up :D**

**I was going to become a comedian but everyone just laughed at me :(**

Name:Brock

Age:15

Website Url: http://blake.prohosting.com/~redneck4

Webmastering Specialties: I know HTML, that's about it

How I got started: Wanted to put pictures of animals on the net so others could see them.

What Else do I like to Do: Hunting, Fishing, Bowhunting, Shoot my bows, shoot my guns, hike in the woods, play baseball. I hate to be inside. I only work on website when it's dark outside.

Welcome to TWF Brook

Name: joenov aka nicestguy, }tHoL{-Nicestguy-[RN] and the man formerley known as nicestguy

Age:34

Occupation:1st mate (tugboats) merchant marine

Website URL: stanwoodbottles.com

What are your webmastering specialities? I think I know what HTML stands for and I've dlded cuteftp

How did you get started? Got trellix web as free program on comp when bought it a year ago decided to open program about 4 months ago, decided to burn trellix 3 months 29 days ago and learn HTML, decided to buy Front Page first thing tomorow

What else do you like to do? I like to dance (ballroom, Latin, Country Western and can fake a mean argentine tango)play a few online games, work with hands refinish furniture paint etc.

Quote: Originally posted by joenov
days ago and learn HTML, decided to buy Front Page first thing tomorow

WAIT!! WAIT!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!! Seriously - if you're going to go out and buy something at least get something decent (like Macromedia's Dreamweaver). It is, however, quite easy to do this all for free using a freebie code editor and your own brain FP is notorious for writing bad code and all sorts of other things you don't want

Yeah, Megan is right. Check this first.

Thanks for info, I will be getting dream weaver in future and delete the notions for a quick fix with front page. It probably will go well with the macromedia flash paperwight cd and manuals that I have now. (I often want to fly before I can crawl) Gonna gut it out and do some retooling /formatting of stanwoodbottles.com Started from scratch earlier and just getting rid of that color scheme and the green and pink palm trees has done alot of good. not up on web yet but looking good on comp and going with links on side and body to right. Thankyou for the advice lots of help and ive only been a member about 8 hours. thanks joenov

We aim to help and it's nice to hear that we are There are also plenty of us who do use Dreamweaver so if you have any problems or queries then post them in the relevent forum and you are sure to get all the help and advise that you need.

you have a 14 day break on dream weaver questions, wont go into details but brother works for comp and edu company and can get software for me much cheaper and i will see him shortly. If you ever need to know anything about what to do when on a tugboat in the gulf of alaska in 40 foot seas and 100 mph winds just let me know. I may not get back to you for about a month or 2 because i could be on that tug but will when I return. thanks again joenov

Quote: Originally posted by joenov
If you ever need to know anything about what to do when on a tugboat in the gulf of alaska in 40 foot seas and 100 mph winds just let me know.

Will bear that in mind, thanks

Name: Heather
Age: Just 12
Occupation: Let's see... I'm a student, a violin player, a piano player, a soccer player, a volleyball player, a scientist, a basketball player, a track runner, a cross-country runner, a sunday school teacher, a tutor, a baby-sitter, a missionary, a website runner...
Website URL: http://jclcds.tripod.com/
What are your webmastering specialties? Well, borrowing other's scripts... (LOL) I have mastered HTML, and am trying to learn JavaScript and PHP and DHTML and whatever else I can learn.
How did you get started? Well, I was asked to make a website for my Latin club, and that's what I'm doing!
What else do you like to do? Look at my occupation.

and I thought I was "busy"

OMG 12, now I really do feel old. I have jumpers older than 12!!

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
OMG 12, now I really do feel old. I have jumpers older than 12!!

Even I feel old. Welcome, you're well on your way and it's great to see others starting young. I was 12 when I started.

We didn't even have a computer when I was 12! We got our first one when I was 13, a Commadore 64

I was 10, ha!

I remember when I begged my dad to buy an atari-console because my best friend had one. But he refused and said if I wanted something like a console he would buy a real computer so I could learn how to use this modern stuff And so I got my first one, an Atari 600XL, 16Ki(!!!)b RAM and a tape-drive to save data. Taking around 5 minutes to load up 10Kib...

Oh btw, my name is Patrick, 27 and from Germany. Perhaps somebody still remembers me, I am one of the TWF-Grannies, coming back after a year or so absent...

later

Patrick!!!! Where have you been???? Welcome back!

Hey! Welcome back Patrick!

What ya been up to?

Well I first started visitng this fine website over a year ago so I guess this is long overdue.

Name: Mike
Age: 30
Occupation: Television Producer. That's right, my profession has no relation to web-authoring what-so-ever.
Website URL: In order of priority...
CharlotteMLB.com - first high-profile site
http://softball.at/charlotte - not completed as of this posting
Mike.Sussman.com - my personal family site
geocities.com/pstv2 - my first website
(I gotta stop making these things )
What are your webmastering specialities?
None really. I guess I can say marketing and promotion.
How did you get started?
Unlike most of you, I didn't take a single class. I just taught myself thru the best teacher available... the internet itself (including TWF!!!). As the link says above, my first site was, and still is a Geocities website I started in 1996 to help my college alumni keep in touch with each other. Then I made another site, and then another, and so on. I'm not a web professional and I've never made a dime from it (although I'm not against the notion ). It's just a hobby that I find fun.
What else do you like to do? I love to play competitive slow-pitch softball, watching the New York Mets, and television (both professionally and as couch-potato)

And I added another question:
Anything else? I live in Charlotte, NC (southeast USA), but I was born and raised on Long Island (suburbs of NYC).

Name:Michael Halbrook
Age:29 (no really, I am (for now)
Occupation:Stay at Home dad & Web Developer/Host
Website URL:http://www.michaelhalbrook.com
What are your webmastering specialities?HTML Layout, Intermediat PHP developer
How did you get started?Started out doing a website for my Church 7 or so years ago.
What else do you like to do?I'm a stay at home dad. Who has time for more than one hobbie when doing that? Okay, I cook too.

Welcome to TWF Michael,

Where abouts are you?

Quote: Originally posted by mhalbrook
[b]What else do you like to do?I'm a stay at home dad. Who has time for more than one hobbie when doing that? Okay, I cook too. [/B]

Good for you! You don't see too many stay at home dads around! Nice to see some people breaking the gender mold

Welcome to the forums!

I'm in Vancouver, USA (Washington)

As to the Stay at home dad thing, I can make money from home doing web development and hosting (though so far not much since I'm not wanting to draw much attention to myself until I get my licensing out of the way). My wife made at the time close to $17/hr and I was making $8/hr. The math clearly dictated that we'd fare better if I stayed home. We'd have had to pay half my paycheck just for Child Care, there'd be more wear and tear on the car, and our tax bracket would be lower if I quit or went part time (actually I went part time, 20hrs week @ Kinko's until they scaled back on hours, in 5 months I've worked 4 days). So now I'm 100% stay at home, doing web development and hosting.

Name:Joe Nicora
Age:1976(26)
Occupation:New Media Developer
Website URL:nicora.com,gen1design.com,meierinc.com
What are your webmastering specialities?Cold Fusion/Graphic Design
How did you get started?Taught myself HTML, joined a local ISP --> then worked under a prodigy for about a year...
What else do you like to do?Spend time with my kids.

pic : http://www.nicora.com/me.gif

Well, we have two dads spending time with their kids. Good for ya'll!!!

Hi mhalbrook and nicora. I have seen both of you around here. Just haven't had a chance to say hi. :wave:

Nice picture, maybe we should start a photo gallery of us all??!!

Yes, I was going to comment on the nice looking pic too but didn't want to sound too forward. But since Webmistress broke the ice.......nice pic there Nicora! You are just toooo cute.

Quote: maybe we should start a photo gallery of us all??!!

Now that would be interesting.

I remember we did that in the 'get to know your fellow memebers thread' a while ago. it was fun

Did we I can't remember that!

Anyway here's me. I'm the one on the left by the way!

I forgot. It was another post. Here it is:
http://www.webmaster-forums.com/showthread.php?threadid=12751&perpage=15&pagenumber=6

But it seems that everybody removed the pics by now.

So where's yours then Jack?

If I think about it, I'll post it tonight, but only if you promise me to post yours too .

I already did on the previous page - here!

Oops, looked over it.
anyway: This doesn't only look like a link, it even is one!

Name: Clint Willard
Age: 33 or 34, something like that.
Occupation: Day - GIS map maker. Other - President of Capital Web Studio
How I Got Started: Back in middle school days my dad bought me a Timex Sinclair touch pad computer with a huge 16k of memory that I started learning QBasic and developed my first log rolling down the screen game. It attached to the black & white T.V. and read off of cassette tapes. In school I continued this on an Apple II in the library and taught others as part of a school curiculum thing.
After leaving my dad to live with my mother, I droped computers completely to become a troubled party-going teenager. My next experience was a guy she married that had a Commador, attached to a color T.V.! This was my first experience with the old BBS. I was about 18 at the time. Nothing happened really. I soon moved to waste even more of my life in Tennesse, even became homeless for 6 months.
I moved back to dad's and started college with doctor in mind. Moving after about a year to help my mother and stepdad in thier new video rental business. To run it actually. Doing this I got back into computers, but in a bookkeeping way. I even learned to use PC Anywhere to connect to the other stores. I was about 24.
I married at 25 and left the video business for a more lucrative resturant management position. By age 28 or 29 I had a modernization thing happen. I drop the sucky resturant thing and worked for NCR Corp. to stage POS computer systems. We bought a computer and went online AOL style (AOL sucks!). The modem was a blazing 1400, we made sandwiches between page downloads. After upgrading to the new 56k I began to form an interest in how this web stuff was done. I new about files and stuff, so I thought there had to be a way. I found the VIEW SOURCE option!!!! Then research pointed me to put this stuff in a notepad with an .html extension. I clicked the file and was hooked. Look at what I did!
Now I run a Celeron 333 with 192megs of Ram, 16megs of ATI video, and 10gigs of HDD. I use Win98 (upgrading to 2000 pro soon) with Apache, have PHP4 installed along with MySQL and Perl. For images I use PhotoImpact 5, for programming I use HTML Kit (the best) (FrontPage is for kids), and just recently added Flash 5 for splash and more.
I have my A+ cert. and have plans for others. As a business, I've designed about 6 sites for pay and have 2 in the works now. Plus I do networking for another business as a contractor. This is from word of mouth, I haven't even got advertisment or a business card. But I do use a contract to protect me legally and worksheets for the clients. I charge about $300 for a basic 3-4 pg site. My wife has the most expensive so far at freeastrology.net. When I get this Flash thing down, $500 will be my lowest price.
Anyway, I hope my biz takes off or I get hired by a good design company in the future.
What else do I like to do: See above
Site URL: capitalwebstudio.com
See me: capitalwebstudio.com/allme.jpg

Whew! That's a long intro! Thanks for letting us know so much about yourself Welcome to the forums!

Howdy neighbor! Welcome to TWF.

Thanky fer tha howdy. Nice sites ya gurls haf. Hum, butterflies, my mother love butterflies.
Megan, did you know you can make those Flash links keep pulsing for a sec. when the mouse outs? Right now they just stop in thier tracks on mouse out. No biggie, I still have a ways to go too.
Anyway, I hope to be a big part of this forum in the future. No one I know in person either cares nor understands anything I do. HTML what? Do you know what its like to learn something complicated and do something neat that others just say, hum. So, expect to see me posting around, networking would be really cool.

Welcome to the forums Clint, hope you enjoy yourself here

Name:Barb Lange (hence the silly user name)
Age:30
Occupation:Consumer Relations
Website URL:GetMeHosted.com
What are your webmastering specialities?Sadly, I have no webmastering specialties. That's why I need the help of a community such as this.
How did you get started?Customer Relations is my chosen profession.
What else do you like to do?Anything related to the internet. Although, when I want to relax, it's in the kitchen, baking.

Welcome to TWF, Barb.

Welcome Barb! :wave:

Welcome to TWF Barb. Where abouts are you?
When do we get to sample your baking skills?

Welcome to all the new faces around here! I have been busy and late on my welcomes, sorry y'all!

Sara

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
Welcome to TWF Barb. Where abouts are you?
When do we get to sample your baking skills?

I'm in Michigan. And ya'll are welcome to stop over any time.
Of course, if you opened a kitchen here, we could all just meet there.

Name: Bob
Age: Middle
Occupation: Midlife crisis, 9 years on web, 23 years in computer field, now an executive recruiter and part time web developer.
Website URL: A bunch of half done projects. You can always start at http://www.bobcosta.com . The most interest activity is at http://www.bobcosta.com/bcportal, where you can watch me build a CMS portal system that will integrate into vBulletin. At some point, this project will hav eits own URL at http://www.phppp.com

What are your webmastering specialities? Database stuff is where I am most entertained. Weak at visual aspects of web, strong at DB design (currently use MySQL), getting strong quickly at PHP

How did you get started? You have to be kidding.

What else do you like to do? Walk, Run, Shoot, Dig, Eat, Drink, be Merry

Welcome to TWF Bob,

How's the mid-life crisis coming along??

Welcome to TWF Bob! Looks like you were computing when when my mom was beating me over the head as a rowdy teenager. LOL

Julia- if it was going well, it would not be a CRISIS !!!

D-M. Actually, I wrote my first program in 1962 at the age of six. It was in machine language, and was for my older sister's junior high school class in computers. But the assignemnt was boring, so I made up my own project and had her do the testing on it. It worked.

OK, I feel another random desktop screen shot session coming on...

here's mine
http://www.nicora.com/Untitled-1.jpg

don't laugh

he yall, I'm brand new here:)

Name: Jo

Age: 16

Occupation: 11th grade student going nuts cause exams are in 2 weeks, baton twirler 5 times a week, gymnast and coach once a week, daughter, sister..stuff like that. Oh and I do websites for gymnasts.

Website URL: well, I have bunches but they're all on jogys-web.com

What are your webmastering specialities? lol I have none. I have low self-esteem when it comes to my sites and I still think my sites look like pagebuilder crap lol

How did you get started? Well, my very talented friends were all doing it so I did the thing my parents taught me NOT to do and I followed the crowd. And I wanted to do sites on Canadian gymnasts cause I love my home girls:)

What else do you like to do? Baton, Gymnastics, Study so I won't fail math, go to movies and well, stuff teenagers do.

Welcome to TWF Jo. Hope you enjoy participating here and looking at your site I think you have talent! You & Megan will probably have a lot in common as you're both from Cananda, both into Gymnastics and both build websites about it!

Hey Jogy,

welcome to TWF! Nice site, but you might wanna change 'aboot' to 'about' in the links section

Quote: Originally posted by Jack Michaelson
Hey Jogy,

welcome to TWF! Nice site, but you might wanna change 'aboot' to 'about' in the links section

heh Jack. It is actually a North American "in" joke. Many Americans are convinced that us Canadians pronounce about as "aboot"

Oh and, welcome to TWF Jogy!

ok! learned something today

Quote: Originally posted by Jogy
How did you get started? Well, my very talented friends were all doing it so I did the thing my parents taught me NOT to do and I followed the crowd. And I wanted to do sites on Canadian gymnasts cause I love my home girls:)

Cool! Great to see another gymn fan here Are you excited about Nationals this week? It's too bad that we probably won't be getting TV coverage or anything Do you know anyone who is going? We've got a couple of people reporting for Gymn.ca (including Kate Richardson!) but that's about all the info I've got

Welcome to TWF!

Name: Saeed Sarvi
Age: 2x
Occupation: Webdeveloper
Website URL: http://www.sarvihosting.com/

What are your webmastering specialities?
I have been working with web development for the past 7-8 years. Some of the stuff I work with: PHP, Perl/CGI, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, ActionScripts, PhotoShop, DreamWeaver, ASP, VB, MS SQL, Unix/Linux and more. You can say I do a little of everything I'm also (or was) the founder of FlashPlanet.com which was sold to Internet.com in early year 2000 which was about when I stopped working on it. Since then, I have been working a little with Hewlett-Packard, Exodus.net, etc, but mostly as free lancer and on our own projects.

How did you get started?
I got interested in programming back in the BBS era. I started with coding PPL for my PCB BBS with ANSI/ASCII graphic.

What else do you like to do?
I love spending time with my fiancé, watching movies, eating (I tell ya it's her fault! She's making too good food, I've gained 10 KG in the last few months :lovesick: ), hmm.. You got me thinking about food, now I'm hungry again..

*click*

Wow! That's quite an impressive background! Welcome to TWF

Name: They call me.........................Shecky

Age: 29

Occupation: designer/artist/computer salesperson/Mac specialist (ya know, ya gotta make ends meet =) )

Website URL: [URL=http://www.abrasivedesign.com ]abrasive[/URL] (nothing there yet, working on it)

What are your webmastering specialities? Flash design, layout, look and feel, user interface design, Flash navigation/animation, analogy and metaphor, critique.

How did you get started? Been a designer and artist all my life, after dabbling in architecture during my formative years, i discovered fine art, and then New Media a few years ago and started to design various and sundry things, most of whice are no longer online. Unlike a fine chianti, they did NOT get better with age. I am very much a designer and artist more than I am a programmer/coder, so my skills lie in the design of a site and interface, not the code of one. I love to work in Flash, for its animation as well as user interface capabilities. I tend to work on highly designed projects that are many layers deep of a design process and methodology.

What else do you like to do avid film buff, and coffee addict. When i am not doing web based stuff i am usually at a Starbucks with a a copy of "I.D." or "Metropolis" or at my work studio creating something.

Welcome to TWF shecky!:wave:

Join right in and enjoy your self.

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Cool! Great to see another gymn fan here Are you excited about Nationals this week? It's too bad that we probably won't be getting TV coverage or anything Do you know anyone who is going? We've got a couple of people reporting for Gymn.ca (including Kate Richardson!) but that's about all the info I've got

Welcome to TWF!

I was really excited about Nationals, a lot of the people I do sites for were competing but really, only Jen, Amanda and David did as well as they could! About TV coverage- I agree, it sucks really. I'm happy we get US Nationals coverage though. What a surprise though, to see Danielle win!!

I've been doing so much updating on all my sites but Amelie's site is on another server and it's down right now so there are no results, it bugs me really. I hope I can get it fixed soon!

Megan Jack, I just couldn't resist this, sorry
Proud to be a Californian, it may be America Junior.

Name: Andrea
Age: 27
Occupation: Writer
Website URL: http://www.andilinks.com/index.htm
What are your webmastering specialities? Organizing and editing content.
How did you get started?
In the early morning hours of September 11th I was in my bedroom/workspace happily pounding away on my keyboard working on a frivilous but probably lucrative writing project. My Dad pounded on my door and told me to turn on my television. I closed the Word Window, turned on the TV and watched it until January. I never reopened Word on that computer, I never resumed work on that project.

In January I finally decided to do something.
I bought a new computer and began surfing the Internet seeking ideas about how I could best use my particular skills. I got bogged down trying to reorganize the HTML bookmark file that I imported from the old computer. I didn't want to use the cascading menus, I wanted to organize the links onto pages. I barely knew the difference between an HTML tag and a DKNY tag at the time so I am pleased that within two months I had a website and within four months I had my own domain and twelve pages...

Will Andilinks ever make money? Not in any way that I can imagine, and that is fine because I can support it. But if it should ever make money or be instrumental in my making money, I'll take the money.

Andi

LOL...loved your post Andrea.

Welcome to TWF Andrea

Name: Andy Kettle
Age: 20
Occupation: Web Designer
Website URL: http://www.andyspad.net (my homepage)

What are your webmastering specialities?
Making sites look good, originalty from time to time i can code in perl, php, and mysql plus im pretty hot on unix as well (i'm modest too!!!)

How did you get started?
It's a hobby that went haywire!

What else do you like to do?
I'm a bit of a style freak, so i love modifying my car! (yes, i'm a boyracer and proud of it!! )

Welcome to TWF Andy! Your site looks really great. I love the little character you've used in the logo

Welcome! :wave:

I'm not actually new. I've had an account here for a couple of years, but I haven't been posting here for a while (although I lurk around from time to time). I decided I'd jump into this thread, though, because, well, I can never resist a good meme.

Name:
Bonni Elizabeth Hall. Yes, I use all three names on a lot of things. I picked my name out myself, so I use it.

Age:
38 (born in 1964).

Occupation:
Freelance Web Designer/Pixel Pusher

Website URL:
http://alicorna.com/
http://elizabyte.net/
http://bonni.net/

What are your webmastering specialities?
Pixel Pushing, but I'm reasonably competent with very basic Unix server administration and the "business" part of registering and maintaining domains. Unfortunately, I'm also good at customer service. It's unfortunate because it means that I'm the one who always has to do it!

How did you get started?
I made myself a homepage back in 1994. The first incarnation of it was non-graphical because I didn't have a graphical browser (didn't have the right connection). When I did get around to getting the right connection set up, I downloaded Netscape 1.1 and got out my Paint Shop Pro (I think it was about version 3 at the time) and made myself some graphics because most of what was "out there" and available was pretty dorky, IMHO. For a few years I kept making web pages and reading online tutorials and generally learning as much as I could about web design, and then after I got a job at my ISP (mostly tech support, but also eventually system administration), it just sort of snowballed into a full-blown business.

What else do you like to do?
Read (history, biography, historial romance, science fiction, and occasionally Ann Rice), take photographs, travel, play with my kids, pet the cat. I still push pixels for my own enjoyment, as well.

Guess that's about it.

bonni

Welcome Back! How in the world did you manage to choose your own name?

lol, I just read that and thought the exact same thing! Reincarnation perhaps??

Heheh. No, nothing as interesting as reincarnation. I just filed a bunch of paperwork and went to a brief court appearance and ta-dah, new name that I chose myself.

bonni

BONNI! Yay you are here!! You are too cool with your name. Heh.

*hugs*

Sara

Name: Kristin Lynch
Age: 35
Occupation: Web Producer, CyberInk
Website URL: http://www.goerie.com; several other sites (also http://www.kristinlynch.com but there's nothing there right now since my own site is always at the bottom of my priority list)
What are your webmastering specialities? I am not a language person - I have very little experience with Perl, CGI, Java, Javascript, etc. I create/maintain the majority of my work through simple text editor programs. Maintaining GoErie.com and our client sites requires a lot of organization and attention to detail. I generally work 60+ hours/week but I love the work so much that some of that is my own fault. Most of what I learned has been self-taught or by taking the initiative in other jobs to learn as much as I possibly could.
How did you get started? I have worked with computers since I was 11 years old. I knew growing up that I wanted to work with PCs, but of course the Internet as we know it didn't exist back then, so I sort of fell into this particular field. I've worked with hardware - can build PCs and troubleshoot 'em, etc., and have worked in or at least dabbled in a variety of PC areas (networking, etc.). I've used BBSs and other 'pre-modern day Internet' tools. After I got my first dial-up account through our local ISP, I took a tech support with them and eventually became a systems administrator. I used that experience to learn about Internet protocols, etc. (the back-end stuff) and some Linux. One of my jobs eventually became updating the ISP's web site. I really enjoyed that part of my job and I completely learned those skills from scratch. A year later my current boss contacted me about becoming the Producer for a new company he was starting - and because the job focused on the design/development/management of web sites, I was attracted to the opportunity. I've been with the company now since its creation almost 6 years ago.
What else do you like to do? All kinds of geeky computer stuff, news, The History Channel, photography, golf, biking, following the New York Yankees, The Beatles, watching movies, being an all-around couch potato and homebody.

Welcome to TWF Kristin :wave:

I know what you mean about spending more time than you should working!

Hope you enjoy the forums.

Welcome to the club Kristin!

:wave:

Hi Guys,
Well, my name is Mitch and I'm the lead developer of http://www.sitetell.com. I live in Sydney, Australia and I'm a web developer. I love PHP and Linux and I'm currently learning advanced Java concepts....

Oh no! Another Aussie!!

Welcome SiteTell.com!

PS. try to post in the correct forum next time

Welcome to TWF :wave:

Welcome!

Name: Danny/Daniel/Dan
Age: 14
Occupation: Silly Student
Website URL: http://www.companyreviews.net
What are your webmastering specialities? Ermmmm, nothing
How did you get started? I think i started in a drag and drop then tried to learn html.
What else do you like to do? I like to post a forums, listen to music in cluding marilyn manson, korn, kittie, placebo, ozzy, slayer,, cradle of filth and i like to make new friends and watch stupid shows on the TV. but i also like to make a fool of myself.

Welcome to TWF :wave:

oh thankies

Name:
Rob Weathers

Age:
24

Occupation:
Web Designer

Website URLs:
http://www.defiantgraphics.com
http://www.a1va.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
Animated Banner Ad Design
Custom Site Layout

How did you get started?
In 1995 I was working as a multimedia specialist and I was assigned to learn HTML and create the company website.

What else do you like to do?
Play video games, do family stuff with my wife and 2 kids, and watch movies.

Welcome!

Thanks Jack!

Welcome!

Name:Hoppy
Age:42,Wow I look SO good too.
Occupation:Home-father,
Website URL:http://hopnhel.com
What are your webmastering specialities?:Absolutely none,self taught last 4 months,installing,configuring,html basics and heck I help a lot of people who think I"m some sort of computer genius(poor misguided fools)Four months of trial and error really.
How did you get started?:I'm trying to re-educate(was there a 1st time?)Myself since having a leg amputated and have discovered there is not a lot of employment for a 1 legged labourer.
What else do you like to do?:I'm a sports nut,family days at the beach,bbqs,have quality time with the Wife,helping people just because I can.

Name: Katherine Venra

Age: 27

Occupation: ISP General Assistance Administrator

Website URL: http://www.stclandirectory.com & stmoddirectory.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
Umm...pure plain old html, with some flash, java, .asp and other bells and whistles...but my main experience is advertising them

How did you get started?
Took over an old triple framed site with my cousin that was ran by my late sis, then proceeded to tear it apart to the current look and style

What else do you like to do?
Online gaming, eating out, clubbing, telling people i work for AOL and watch them as they run away screaming that i am a she-devil

Aussie_hop -- very cute nick, lol. Sorry to hear you're going it one step at a time (*groan*) but welcome here! Lots of brains to pick, and do contribute your valuable perspective in the critiques forum, where real users are so needed.

Katie, lol... AOL! No!! lol... well, welcome anyway. I have to admit, it's probably a good thing for the web, because I'm quite enjoying Netscape 7.

Suzanne

Welcome aboard Katie. Where in Scotland are you? or are you Scotish & living in Sweeden or Sweedish and living in Scotland??

Born in Stockholm, Sweden...now living in the west coast of Scotland

I've been a registered member for a little while, but have only just begun posting and am really looking forward to helping out others (and being helped out myself!)

Name: Kristen
Age: 21
Occupation: student (BA - information management)
Website URL: http://13th-hour.net
What are your webmastering specialities? graphics mostly. I'm starting to get a handle on CSS and am attempting to learn PHP.
How did you get started? a friend had a website and I thought it looked like good fun, and here we are!
What else do you like to do? I recently bought a digital camera and am fast becoming a serious photography nut. Other than that I just design, work, study and play with my cats.

Welcome back to TWF Kristen. What kept you away for so long?

It wasn't so much that I was "away", merely that I forgot I had joined up and that this fabulous board existed (I'm foolish like that)!

Glad to have (re)discovered you!

Well I'm sure now you'll be making up for lost time! Certainly loads to read through if you get the time

hello.
Name: Ian
Age: 16
Occupation: student
Website URL: none(im still just trying to learn more of it and i help out on a bunch of other sites sometimes)
What are your webmastering specialities? i only know html, but i am trying to learn javascript then probably css or something.
What else do you like to do? i just like being funny, seems to be what im good at.

Glad to have you aboard

Welcome to the forums, jammin

Heya ppls

Name: Dave
Age: 25
Occupation: Webmaster
Website URL: n/a
What are your webmastering specialities? Intranet development and planning. So far have been developing in asp/vbscript/php/wsh/sql/mysql/access(bleah!)
How did you get started? I opened notepad one day and....
What else do you like to do? Anything related to 3d graphics and automatic weapons. Also play American Football.

Be gentle with me....

Hi hagar!

any relation to Sammy?

nope;-) more of a relation to the horned viking variety lol

Welcome to TWF Hagar and I hope your not horrible

im only horrible tuesday through thursday 3pm -10pm, fridays before 3pm and saturday to monday after 4pm unless monday is a public holiday which changes said times by 1 hour in advance, except for daylight saving months which alters them by minus 1.5 hours. Long lunches may alter hours of horrible operation, on said days notice will be given 24 hours previous. This may or may not move forward all hours to adjust for said notice.

Can I be a microsoft lawyer now? pleeeease? lol

LOL

Am I the only one who's worried about his thing for automatic weapons?

Umm.... welcome to the forums (and please don't shoot anyone )

whats wrong with liking guns? although i prefer explosives to guns they are both fun

I don't think that we need to go down this road!

ummm 3d graphics + automatic firearms = ummm Counterstrike/UT anyone? LOL
the world is not to be taken literally, nor seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.

besides i play american football, i dont settle things with firearms, i settle them with tackling.

Name: Sam "Colonel Failure" Bennett
Age: 29
Occupation: Web Producer
Website URL: BombThePast (non-work - forgive the coding it's over 18 months old)
What are your webmastering specialities? Total site creation - graphics, template, coding, content. Tools used : Photoshop 7, Homesite +. That's all. Nothing else. Maybe a bit of flash to spice things up occaisionally, but that's it. Languages - HTML, PHP, SQL, CSS and the usual assortment of odds n sods.
How did you get started? Taught myself web design in order to make a website for my gaming clan. 6 months later I was working freelance, 1 year after that was working for an ISP, now working for gargantuan games company.
What else do you like to do? Gaming, obviously. Bonsai and catamaran sailing.

Welcome to TWF Sam :wave:

Where in the UK are you?

Depends when you ask - during the week I'm in Surrey, at weekends I'm in Suffolk

Welcome, Colonel! Glad to have you aboard

Hey, I like this idea. I was just about to try and think of stuff to tell you about, because this is my first post, but now it's all taken care of. I like this place already

There are many sections too. I think I will find lots of useful information. Hmmm ..93K On Alexa. Not bad..

Name: Leonard Wass, aka MrLeN

Age: I am 27 (about 7 years older than I'd like to be)

Occupation: web Developer

Website URL: newezone.com
What are your webmastering specialities?: I am pretty front end. I'm not too interested in getting too deep. I am more interested in promotion methods, SEO stuff, optimizing sites and graphics etc. However I can install the average script, and clean up some javascript here and there as well. I know how to implement Perl, PHP, SSI blah blah.. All that stuff. I am employed as webmaster for a Melbourne based software company. I like to make fast search engine friendly sites. I do try

Um, My post was too long, so I have to break it up (sorry)

How did you get started? Gee, this story again? I hate telling this bit. Ok, I purchased a computer so that I can play CIVILIZATION! Ok, so shoot me! The Amiga 500 kinda became well ..old. Then one day, (took many years for that day to come) ..I kinda got sick of CIV, and had a look through my ISP admin area, where they mentioned something about saving a notepad document with .html on the end. I tried it. "WOW - A web page". So I forgot all about CIV and spent the next few months stealing code from all the sites that I could find. Eventually, I got so used to the code, that I just started writing it (still in notepad). It wasn't for a good six months that I became aware that there are such things as teeeext eeeeditoooors (duh). (Enter Arachnophelia). "WOW - Look! It has colors, and cleans my code!" .."I Really like this web dev stuff!" ..By now it was too late. I was scrounging through javascript code sites, downloading 100GB (lol - may as well have) images for my sites that took no less than 1 minutes to load. I had midi's and wavs running. I was right into it. I used frames in frames in frames (aughh!) ..javascript all over the place. ..but I was having lots of fun! Well, gee to cut a long story shot, eventually (15 months ago) I applied for a webmaster job, and got it. Now I don't have to paint houses anymore. (I was a painter).

What else do you like to do? I am pretty boring I guess. When I'm not at work, or making my own sites, I am usually watching CNN, or reading the CNN website. If I've got any time left I'll watch WWE

I am finally cured of my CIV adiction, which dates back to the C64! ..but I think I jumped out of the frying pan, into the fire LOL ..maybe I should get back to playing Civ. (Civ III is out now, and they just released MP - Drewls!). Hmm.. Maybe I could spare a few hours on the weekend ??

MrLeN

Welcome to TWF Leonard :wave:

Thanks. It's nice to be here

I have added a link to this site to my main section template.

I think that many of my site visitors would like to come here too

MrLeN

That's very good of you, thank you Leonard

Hi everyone!

Name: Alexander Enoch (Xander online, Sandy IRL, 404 to some, 'that idiot' to most )
Age: 16
Occupation: Student / Web Developer
Website URL: http://www.aistudios.co.uk / http://www.ef8.net / http://www.webspacedirect.com (literally started yesterday)

What are your webmastering specialties?
Umm... jack-of-all-trades really, pretty good in HTML, PHP and MySQL with some skills in photoshop, javascript, ASP and learning java itself... Just started my own hosting business too...

How did you get started?
Built a website on homestead years and years ago and just progressed into the realm of actual design...

What else do you like to do?
Music, movies, hang out with friends, get drunk at every possible opportunity, dramatics (got an audition for the role of Niko in Zorba next week :eek: ), overuse elipses, play a bit of chess too

"The problem with first impressions is that you only get to make one" ... oh well

:rainbow: Xander

Hi 404,

Welcome to webmaster-forums

MrLeN

Welcome, MrLeN and 404.

Quote: overuse elipses

Me too...

Quote: Zorba

the Greek? The movie theme tune is one of my favourites.

Welcome Xander :wave:

My Mum's side of the family is from Aberdeen (well New Macher actually). Good luck with the audition!

thanks! Yup it's zorba the greek, i have to sing butterfly for the audition, doubt i'll get it though as this is the first time i've gone for a major role, and there are some really good people there...

Quote: My Mum's side of the family is from Aberdeen (well New Macher actually).

wow, i live about a mile from newmachar... small world

Dyce?

Well good luck for the audition and let us know how it goes

Welcome, new guys!

I think this is the place where I can say HI to all of this forum members. I like this forum, looks very nice; I'll spend some time here, I'm preatty sure about this.

I'm a geography student from Romania, Bucharest and I'm really interested in web design and all that stuff.

So, hi to everyone and thank you for your fast and advaiseble replies.

Welcome! Sounds like your background is similar to mine - I was studying urban planning when I got interested in web design.

Welcome to TWF, cocoalex.

Name: Jason Faddes
Age: 25
Occupation: PC Tech support / Web design
Website URL: http://www.m-learner.net + http://www.mooreorg.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
I have knowledge of ASP, VBscript and MS SQL. I use MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, MS ASP WebMatrix (Trying to get to grips with ASP.NET)

I Have used Swish but would like to be able to learn Flash and Actionscript.

I also wish I could do graphic design, but I was never very creative and didn't do so well in art class.

How did you get started?
3 years ago I was asked to produce a basic site for a customer. With many challenges along the way, I began to aquire new skills relatively quickly and realised that I enjoyed doing it as well as aquiring some very happy customers.

What else do you like to do?
Walking, Cycling and trying to get/keep fit. I enjoy boating in the summer months, and allways open to new experiences. Still waiting for an opportunity to skydive and bungy jump. Just don't list dangerous hobbies or sports on a resume or life insurance application.

Welcome to TWF Jason :wave:

Yet another Canadian then, you lot planning to take over here? lol

I'm not very interested in bungy jumping, but I do want to try base jumping sometime. Maybe hang gliding too.

Thanks for the welcome. Webmistress I am actually from Surrey, England. Born in Cheshire and raised in a small village near Leatherhead. I had worked for a company called Photo-me and serviced Photo Booths around, Surrey, Hampshire and East-Sussex.

I came to Canada 3 years ago after meeting my Canadian wife.

Hey Mark. Do you skydive ? Jumpers first skydive hundreds of times from aircraft before attempting to BASE jump, which is undoubtedly the world's most extreme sport. Would love to do it too !

Nope, never skydived. Not yet.

Name: John
Age : 41 (yes im old)
Website url :spisas
What are your webmastering specialities? : None really, but somehow i get by
How did you get started? : A friend, an it manager, got me a computer, introduced me to the web, about 2 years ago. Making my own website has evolved this past few months, from a free hosted netfirms thing, to a now free hosted and ad-less(the it manager)website thing.
What else do you like to do? :Spend time with my wife and family, im basically a family oriented guy, i love them, what can i say. I do like cinema and books, and love rugby union, even though Wales are rubbish at the moment.

Glad to have you aboard John and you are not old, my hubby is 43! Glad to have an adult join us!

What part of Wales are you from?

Name: Owen
Age: 14
Occupation: High School Student
Website URL: http://www.silonetwork.com

What are your webmastering specialities?
When I first started webmastering I used to frontpage my tables, but now I can hand code them.. I've been learning PHP for the pst few months now and I'm getting quite good. I'm glad that I dont have to hand code each page now, all dynamically driven. I'm good with psp7, but I'm thinking I should switch to Photoshop. But, PSP8 is coming out in the next few weeks so I'll think I'll stick with Jasc instead of Adobe.

How did you get started?
I first got started when I got frontpage which I think came with IE. I created a few meaningless sites with bright colors and annoying animated gifs and too much javascript. I moved onto a gaming site which I stuck with for about 10 months, but unfortunately the competition was fierce, so the site went down the drain. At this stage I was still using Frontpage, the graphics program Arcsoft Photostudio 2000 and the featureless SSI.

A few more small insignificant sites came along, as did my skills in my new aquired graphics program PSP7. With some more work, and my effort to better understand html, about 6 months later my site is what it is now. (The Webmistress: I'm gonna keep the blue! )

What else do you like to do?
I love playing soccer and basketball. I also enjoy athletics, such as long jump and the 100m sprint. You'll find me at the movies a couple of times a month and the rest of the time I'll be at school or right here in front of the computer.

Hello
Webmistress, im from the Rhondda, a true vally boy, but in a few months im hoping to be in california, as my wife is originally from there and we hope to be back there this year.. wish us luck
Take care.

Good luck

Are you moving there for good or just a visit?

Name: aj
Age: 19
Occupation: student
Website URL: http://www.geocities.com/adsholepromote
What are your webmastering specialities? just a newbie
How did you get started? just like others...got hooked up in yahoo pagebuilder until i checkd out some html codes and then of course, some html tutorials.
What else do you like to do? i have an underground punk band, im curious in website business, i like to learn and be a professional webmaster.

Name: Joe Nicora
Age: 27
Occupation: New Media Developer / Application Developer / Graphic Designer
Website URL: (will be soon: http://www.seemecreate.com)

What are your webmastering specialities?

I like to think I have a little of everything, with exception to editing and copy writing. I'm a programmer, graphic designer and creative director.

How did you get started?

I started while I was driving truck and got my first CPU, I was facinated by the web and spent hours viewing source code and leaning how it worked. I landed my first job in 2000 at a local ISP (Amerion), then I started my own business a year later, then merged with a larger company a year ago.

What else do you like to do?

I love spending time with my kids and girlfriend. I go to the gym a lot, and like to go out clubbing every now and then. I'm pretty out-doorsy, lots of camping, boating and fishing. here is a pic of myself and GF, don't have any of the kids here at work. http://63.166.206.4/seemecreate/graphics/meandcarrie.jpg

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
Good luck

Are you moving there for good or just a visit?

to live

Occupation:
programmer mf(mainframe,as400 and of course the web)

Age: old if you ask my kids

Website URL:current one http://www.alienwebproduction.com
new one in the works http://www.alienwebproduction.com/servlet/newPageServer?pageName=newhome

What are your webmastering specialities?
HTML, CSS, xml, xslt, Java. MySql, Oracle, VB and DB2 not just for the mainframe anymore.

How did you get started?
Wife likes to surf alot looked at some of the sites said to myself hey I can learn that. Took a 9 month course had my first site up in 2 days now redoing it takes much more time when you learn the things you thought you knew the first time around.

What else do you like to do?
Play guitar, drums, keyboards with and without my kids. Play ball with my sons. Family hikes. Romantic evenings with my wife which are far and few in between any more. Kids what was I thinking???LOL

Name: varies depending on where you know me from
Age: i think mid-gambit (now leet's see who understands my use of outdated terms... i have a knack for losing people by using terms and sentaces structures that, while perfectly correct, are either old or so high level it's actually harder for others... i've been told it's a result of my brain processing oddly as a result of not having a short term memory)
Occupation: looking for one
Website URL: none yet
What are your webmastering specialities? let's see. i know html, reteaching myself php/javascript becasue o how long it's been since i used them. i know java, c , scheme, lisp, perl...ummm... i think there's more but i'm not gonna bother remembering right now
How did you get started? computers or websites?we've had a computer in my house since i was about the age of one and i've always had a technically oriented mind. (woo hoo gotta love apple IIe. did someone mention commadore 64? i remember those fondly. do you remember intellivision? kalecovision? yeah. i can spit off a shitload of systems whose companies that make them don't even exit anymore. i'm that old.) webmastering? i took a course via vhs for fun. used netscape composer and quickly started cursing it out for it's failures. played with literally all the free editors around and found they were worse, so by the end of the week i had taught myself html and was using the most simplistic text editor i know of: notepad. now if someoen wants a real editor, don't get something like frontpage or dreamweaver. they add their own code and remove you form the actual code. they are meant for people that don't know stuff. use emacs or xemacs (if you're reliant upon the borg i feel bad for you.) xemacs.com (might be .org) and get the best PROGRAMMING editor i have ever found. it's made by REAL programmers. the kind that know how to program without debuggers. all it does is "pretty printing" (text indenting), syntax highlighting, and parenthesis matching. if you need more there's an issue you have and if this were back in the 80s when the local idiot was not able to walk into the public library, dl a worm editor and make a worm, then you wouldn't be programming. sorry, but todays editors are made for the braindead to use. the result is rather sub-optimal code with absolutely no modularity. the modularity is the reliance of the younger people upon debuggers to fix their code.you can get debuggers to plug into xemacs if you need them, as well as compilers, but i suggest learning how to code for real... and not using them...if you do that right you'll find debuggers annoying as they try to fix your mistakes before you've finished the block and made any.
What else do you like to do? hang out with friends, listen to music, play REAL football (i refuse to call it by what the rest of america calls it... then again, my home town was at least one-third portugese immigrants and they all called it what it really is. that fake stuff popularized by the nfl wasn't as popular in my town)

on that photogallery thing.. i have 3 php pages i'm willing to donate that will allow the webmaster to make sub-directories to the picture directory.. i guess one per person adding tot eh photo collection. the index.php calls a page gallery.php that turns subdirectoried into galleries and uses a third page that creates thumbs on the fly

oh yeah, here's a personal pet peeve: idiots that think they know how to use animated gifs... twice over when they use them as a background. there's only ONCE i ever saw it used acceptably as a background. it was a water gif used as the background to a poem about water. the only other thing on the page was the link back. so many people think they can use animated gifs. then they do so many animated gifs the page looks ugly. and worse off, the idots that have those things to trail the cursor. i say things because i've seen images as well as text. it's distracting at best. the first thing you learn in any design class is that you have to consider focal points. have too many and you've lost everything.

and i have a thread on me... http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21735 incase you're still interested in getting to know me

Here's my profile.

Name: Steve
Age: 43 (now I feel old)
Occupation: Student (learning website design)
Website URL: HTMLJunction The Gunners Gallery
What are your webmastering specialities? Dont know yet.
How did you get started? I went to a game forum and noticed that People were posting some pretty cool flags in their sigs and thought it would be cool to have a repository that everyone could see, so I started out with a free site at Angelfire and just went from there
What else do you like to do? Hunt, fish, read, cook, spend time with my kids

This seems like a pretty good place for webmaster info, I'll be coming around often.

Welcome! I hope you enjoy the forums

Name: Neo Jones
Age: 19
Occupation: Student / Web Developer
Website URL: http://www.webmastersjunction.com | http://www.realfreesite.com
What are your webmastering specialities?
I love designing the layout & contents for the site, further more I love working with PHP!
How did you get started?
It all get started, when I was chatting with my e-Friend about web developemnt, he gave me an idea to build our own site, so I start working with him (although we live in differnet parts of the world) Our first site ResourcesBox.com runs for a year, but after a year we shut it down due to low traffic and low funds!
After a year we again start a new site RealFreeSite.com, and with all of our hard work it gain lots of traffic (60,000+/month). We recently launch a new site WebmastersJunction.com to help other webmasters!
What else do you like to do?
I love reading books, hearing to Rock music and enjoy watching action movies!

Welcome, Webloard! I've taken a look at your site and it looks like you've got a good resource going. Glad to have you here?

Thanks Megan!

Name: Hi, i'm Angela
Age: somehow I got to be 24 lol
Occupation: designer/host
Website URL: http://www.divasites.com http://www.hostingdiva.com and tons more LOL but those are the main ones....
What are your webmastering specialities? custom designs for small/home businesses..... designs that dont look like crap LOL.
How did you get started? My daddy bought me an HTML book when i was 15 after I begged and begged him. I made my first webpage about 12 hours later lol. Got my first web design gig when I was 18 and i've been doing it ever since
What else do you like to do? I like to dance, i was a dance major in college (practical i know) I like to hang out with my husband and kids.... http://www.poojie.com and I dig star trek

Welcome to TWF Angela - glad to know there's another female joining us and one that likes Star Trek

Whoo--hoo! The women are taking over!

Just kidding, guys, we'll go easy on you

Welcome, Angela

Name:Tracey Rosenblath AKA Paisleyskye

Age: 34 (but don't tell anyone)

Occupation:computer book author/columnist/consultant/webmaster

Website URL: icertify.net is for IT certification candidates and tjrconsulting.net is my web hosting company. Also, http://pages.ivillage.com/traceyrosenblath is just a site about me.

What are your webmastering specialities? I don't have any - I'm here to learn

How did you get started?It just seemed a natural progression after being so involved in IT certifications over the years.
What else do you like to do? I have no idea - I'm still trying to learn this.

Name: Ryan

Age: 18

Occupation: Graphic Design Student

Website URLs: jcri.com | sdsii.com | resortpools.net (coming soon) | whitewidowdesign.com (my personal site coming soon)

What are your webmastering specialities? Specialties eh? I wish I had one specialty, but I like to dive in to anything.

How did you get started? I got started a while ago when I found Composer in Netscape. I threw together some stuff, and got hooked. I began messing with many HTML editors and whatever was available back then. I evolved from there.

What else do you like to do? I also like to hang with friends, and of course go surfing. Not to mention the ladies They all want me.

Ah, composer That's how I got into it too. Didn't last long with that!

Welcome to you to, paisleyskye (and I even spelled that right without looking!)

Welcome to you both :wave:

Name: Patrick
Age: I would rather you guess
Occupation: Student/Programmer
Website URLs: Both sites are being developed (URL's are being kept secret). Both will be soon released and I will tell you first thing
What are your webmastering specialities?
My specialties are PERL and PHP.
How did you get started?
Well first i just wanted a personal websites so I took online tutorials and learned HTML. Soon I started to play online games and I always hated them eventually and decided "Wow it would be great to program my own game". That gave me the insperation to learn Perl. I then met programming friends who incuraged me to learn PHP. Thats basicly it
What else do you like to do? I play soccer, play with image creation, hang out with friends, and read

Quote: Originally posted by Fcreature
Age: I would rather you guess

hmmm... 24?

anyway: welcome

I would guess ... mmmm ... twenty-six. Or am I confusing Patrick with someone else??

Btw, when I surfed into the woods here (ouch!), I glanced at one of the Moz banners and thought it said something about not being "frightened by cheese."

http://ememi.com/tmp/img/ani/twfani.gif

Name:Robert Hatalla
Age:36
Occupation:Disabled Licensed Vocational Nurse, now full-time Multimedia student
Website URL:roberthatalla.com - this is just a basic ranting of my pain I made long time ago and havent paid attention too except corrected spelling few weeks ago. I am currently working on a site
What are your webmastering specialities? I am new to this stuff, but relish in the art of multimedia
How did you get started? After breaking my back and not being able to work anylonger, I had to find something to do with my life, so I bought my first computer little over 3 years ago and started learning about it and found out what I liked to do with them. Websites, director, premier are my favorite thigs
What else do you like to do? I like to listen to music (classic rock, metal, all stealy dan, pink floyd and KISS, basically most music), I also love NHRA, hot rods, and watching grass grow, j/k (lot of freetime on my hands).

Welcome to TWF Robert :wave:

Name:Staci
Age:27
Occupation:unemployed
How did you get started? Lost my job and have been out of work for almost 2 years so I decided to go with something I've played with and love doing.
What else do you like to do? I'm an ebay addict, love searching for antiques and going to auctions and my newest interest is kayaking.

Welcome to TWF Staci, that's exactly how I started up in the web design business!

Name:Wally

Age: VERY VERY OLD

Occupation: Draftsman

Website URL: cruzan.info

What are your webmastering specialities?
I have made about 6 websites, i am into learning html and maybe
some of the others. websites i like to make are hobby sites which
are a little more free form and easier to make...

How did you get started?
use to run an old time BBS(dialup)

What else do you like to do?
fishing,hiking,knives,survival,gardening,doggies,
map making(games) and world making(games) and the USA..

Welcome Sid :wave:

Very very old? Lol, I presume we aren't going to get a quantitative answer from you?

very very old in internet terms is 5 years isn't it 10 tops

Welcome :wave:

Squid! You sound like you have a life! What are you doing at a webmaster forum?!

Well, it's good to see ya here, el squidderino.

I'm online during the weekdays. I'm not online weekend nights.

Megan wrote: Here's a little getting to know you type survey. I hope everyone - whether you're new here or not - will post responses so we can get to know each other

Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Website URL:
What are your webmastering specialities?
How did you get started?
What else do you like to do?

So, post your answers and feel free to add more questions if you want.

Name: Michele (Mommiegeek)
Age: 32
Occupation: PC Hardware Monkey
Website URL:Um, which one?

Personal family homepage: http://www.thebumbargers.com

Personal fannish site: http://www.alt-realities.net

What are your webmastering specialities? I like to think that I'm good at concept, although not always good on the execution. I come up with good plans though and try to translate them into workable web pages.

How did you get started? I wanted to have a website for my favorite television show at the time (Highlander), so I learned HTML by reverse engineering

What else do you like to do? Spend time with my daughter, write, watch television, and play my latest addiction - Spider Solitaire

Name: Magnus
Age: 33
Occupation: Owner of a company
Website URL: http://www.affiliatenetwork.com
What are your webmastering specialities? A little bit of everything, marketing.
How did you get started? Interested in programming and the combination with Internet was sweet!
What else do you like to do? I'm a family man...have 4 kids.

[Name:Robert
Age:31
Occupation:Webdesigner(or as I like to call it web programmer)
Website URL: http://www.0pn.com
What are your webmastering specialities?PHP Baby
How did you get started?I'm a self taught GEEK. Started in 6th grade with a texas instruments computer that didn't even have a hard drive *gasp*
What else do you like to do?There is something besides the web and computers???? O yeah I remeber I used to ride roller coasters, watch musicals, go dancing,fine dining,travel. Gosh what is this a personal ad? I like to take long walks on the beach--hehehe.

Welcome, Robert.

Your "what else" list reminds me of an old quote I read long ago. "'I like to travel and eat exotic food' in geekspeak translates to 'I sometimes visit the fridge and eat what's not mouldy... and often even what is mouldy'".

I started with 80's Club and Rap, but today I prefer to play with trance, euro, techno, house... stuff like that! You?

cool! I like listening to digitallyimported.com during the day

Name: Fahad
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Website URL: http://www.boogle.tk , http://www.boogledirectory.tk & http://www.siteofwriters.tk
What are your webmastering specialities? HTML, Scritpiong (php..)
How did you get started? Don't remember??
What else do you like to do? Just making sites of new kinds and enjoying getting heavy traffic for my sites.

Welcome, fahad!

Name: Brian
Age: 28
Occupation: Entrepreneurial stuff
Website URL: http://www.netflavors.net
What are your webmastering specialities? Basic design, HTML, Internet marketing
How did you get started? I used to work for an ISP, dabbled in HTML, etc., did the department Intranet page, did pages for relatives, etc.
What else do you like to do? Nothing else! (j/k) Sports, read, watch those home improvement shows on cable.

Name: Blinger

Age: thirty something

Occupation: ESL instructor

Website URL: http://blinger.org

What are your webmastering specialities? Don't have any. I'm just a hack. All self taught. Basically a computer geek who didn't own a computer until 3 years ago.

How did you get started?I live in Korea but my parents are in Canada so I started with Geocities making a site aobut my life here. Didn't even own a computer at that time. I did it on my office computer or at a internet-cafe.

What else do you like to do?photography, study, read (3-4 books a week)

Welcome

Age: 30
Occupation: Systems Analyst
Website URL: cyberstorystudios.com

What are your webmastering specialities? I am technically an application developer, my 9-5 job includes Database, Vb, coldfusion, java/vb script and ASP programming. What I really enjoy best is developing interfaces and web site creation has been lots of fun.

How did you get started? 2001 my employer initialized a goal to migrate all the existing applications we had been working on to their respective web based equivalents. My interest in ASP was born, I have really enjoyed it. I just recently realized that maybe just maybe this could be my gateway to job independance and working my own schedules and on my own terms. I am a webmaster newbie that has a lot to learn in reference to how the "web" business is done. Hopefully one day I can live the dream some of you are already living. I am learning by the tons in these forums, thanks to all who post.

What else do you like to do? I love spending time with my children. I have a 2 and a 6 month old, that love the theather, music, reading and ofcourse the playground.

Age: 21
Occupation: Freelance Web Design / Programmer; Webmaster
Website URL: http://www.boredomsucks.net
What are your webmastering specialities?
I'm certified in HTML, JavaScript, PHP and am getting ready for MySQL certification. I use Macromedia Fireworks for designing web pages. Overall experience in web design; programming sums up to 7 years.
How did you get started?
I got started out using AngelFire(Lycos) free web pages. I didn't like the designs and I couldn't get anything out of the page maker so I fiddled around with the source-code option. Terrible text/link based web pages were my specialty.
What else do you like to do?
I like to work... WORK WORK WORK, none of that silly wimp work, HARD WORK. If I'm not working then I feel like I'm worthless. Right now I'm out of a job and just freelance web designing BUT everyday I see myself doing nothing so I create a design, image or script for now reason. haha
Are you married?
LOLOMGGHAHAa..NO1111!! (i do have a special girl that i'd like to marry one day )

Welcome, Charles! Hang out here for awhile and you'll learn a lot about web design!