Grandmaster — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 19:54:37 +0000

Ive been designing sites for about 2-3 years. Started my 8th grade year. I had a geocities site about battletech.

I then made a small game chet site, that lasted about a month, then i made ultimate web, ohh baby, what a site. About that time I made a battletech site, it was very nice, had alot of info, and for a geocities site, it got about 80 uniques a day. It was a nice site, i made using a old program, MGI Photosuite.

I then bought 21studios.com. I started making it, and currently the 3rd design is up there now. I also made a bunch of fun sites, like graphic-forums.com, and xtutorials.com, and this is were i am now, sitting at my computer, waiting for a basketball game..

mjames — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:33:28 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
Wow, when I read the first few responses I was rather shocked by how new many of you are (not that newness seems to have too much correlation with skill level).

PErsonally I've been doing web development for about 7 years although the first year or two was nothing major. As for the type of development, I work full time, part time, or by contract depending on my work load and the rest of my life, so yes, web development is a 'full time' job.

Well, Ted, some of us are still young and so we of course haven't been in the business for as many years as adults. I am now 15 and doing this for 4 years is quite a long time.

Ted Sindzinski — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:24:51 +0000

Wow, when I read the first few responses I was rather shocked by how new many of you are (not that newness seems to have too much correlation with skill level).

PErsonally I've been doing web development for about 7 years although the first year or two was nothing major. As for the type of development, I work full time, part time, or by contract depending on my work load and the rest of my life, so yes, web development is a 'full time' job.

anti — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:09:20 +0000

I sold my first website in late '94.
Things were far easier back then.

I never did webdesign as a fulltime job,
but I financed my university years with a few sites.

Nowadays I only play around and do some scripting if someone needs it.
You still can get rich, but it's too much hassle.
Having a permanent contract and playing the stock market is much less strainfull to your body and the risks are so much lower.

trungson — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:54:14 +0000

I've been online since 1998 but did nothing about webmaster stuff. So all just started about a year ago.

adalt — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:07:48 +0000

Hi,
Nice to know a bit about everyone else here, I have been a web****** for about 4 months so I don't use the "m" word yet.
I really have learnt alot from everyone so thanks alot & keep up the good advice

Tony

Mark Hensler — Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:56:35 +0000

Welcome to TWF billtown! Stick around and enjoy the atmosphere...

Megan

billtown — Sat, 24 Mar 2001 06:42:34 +0000

You got the good money then Megan ! I never spent any time working with Flash. I was looking for somebody last year to do some Flash works for me even if I'm a webmaster and I'm good with scripts like CGI and PHP

Parker — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:40:55 +0000

I've been on the web for 4 or 5 years and doing sites for 3 years.

Brian Farkas — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:46:28 +0000

Nice topic, Marc!
I've been on the Internet for about 6 years, and started doing web sites in 1996. My first web page was very simple, and I started out by uploading the pages to my AOL account. Honestly, there weren't very many good free web space providers around back then, so when Hypermart came out with a package offering a subdomain and CGI access I jumped on the opportunity. From Hypermart, I got on a paid host, started reselling hosting, switched between a few different paid hosts and finally ended up getting my own server.