** Member Poll - How did you find The Webmaster Forums? **
by greg, Thu, 2008-07-03 18:14
Search engine when looking for a webmaster forum
22% (2 votes)
Search engine when looking for something else
33% (3 votes)
Link from an article at A Padded Cell
0% (0 votes)
Blog comment or forum signature link
0% (0 votes)
Social bookmarking site (StumbleUpon etc)
0% (0 votes)
Other (please post)
44% (4 votes)
Total votes: 9
Jack Michaelson posted this at 07:53 — 4th July 2008.
He has: 1,733 posts
Joined: Dec 1999
Got here more than 8 years ago. Nobody heard of Google back then, so I guess stumbled upon TWF by using AltaVista. I was looking for HTML, CSS and javascript resources for an internship I was following at the time.
Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)
Renegade posted this at 00:51 — 4th July 2008.
He has: 3,022 posts
Joined: Oct 2002
Got referred here by Abhishek Reddy, another moderator here at TWF
It was when I first got started with the web and he recommended TWF so, since then, I've stuck around
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 22:15 — 3rd July 2008.
He has: 1,502 posts
Joined: Sep 2006
Party at the admin's place!
decibel.places posted this at 20:26 — 3rd July 2008.
He has: 1,494 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
I was looking at adapting a VBulletin site to Drupal and found Liam's articles and project there at drupal.org so I followed the link to TWF
Megan posted this at 19:44 — 3rd July 2008.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
It was just over 9 years ago (! Nine !). I would read any html/web design/webmastering site I could find. Of course, there weren't so many of them in those days. I believe I came across the what-next site first, which at the time was a general webmaster resource site. I got to the forums from there. See the big link to the forums on that page there? Yep, that was the olden days.
At first I mainly did critiques. I found it fun and liked helping others with their sites. I'm generally good at being critical
(ha ha) Then I was asked to be a moderator in the critiques section.
Unfortunately the thieves who stole webmaster-forums.com have a robots exclusion so we can't see what the site looked like back then. I remember though
It was blue. Well, not really blue, but white background with lighter blue header area.
Oh, the nostalgia
By the way, we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in the fall. Any ideas for events or prize donations would be appreciated.
Megan
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greg posted this at 19:21 — 3rd July 2008.
He has: 1,581 posts
Joined: Nov 2005
Although it was nearly 3 years ago, I actually remember I was looking for a webmaster forum to start learning how to code.
Although, I didn't really do much for a year of my membership as I got busy with another project un-related to www.
kazimmerman posted this at 19:07 — 3rd July 2008.
He has: 698 posts
Joined: Jul 2005
Yeah, I'm with Greg K. When I first stumbled upon this website (though not through that service), I can't remember exactly what my motive was, but I think I was looking for an answer for an HTML problem I was having at the time.
Kurtis
Greg K posted this at 18:40 — 3rd July 2008.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
Crap, that was over 4 years ago.... My memory sucks, but I guessed at what it most likely was....
LOL
-Greg
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