How long have you concidered yourself a webmaster?

[ŋєт™]

I started out on proboards in 2003 and got my first real domain/host in 2006. I've been running sites for a long time and I've learned alot.

[gray929]

i bought my first domain and hosting in December of 07. So I became a novice webmaster at that time. I started out with a lot of trial and error and eventually got the hang of things. I frequent many webmaster forums such as Name Pro's and Digital Point to learn all I can. I own a web directory which has worked out well. Since Google stopped endorsing directory submissions, I thought my revenue would go down, but its actually went up. I promote it every day and have developed a strong traffic flow on a daily basis. Of course, this isn't a project I'd like to have forever. I am always talking with a few of my online friends of ideas we could implement into a real website. Started a few of them but never finished.

[ŋєт™]

Yea I count myself lucky. I learned alot on my own, but I have a friend that knows a hell of alot more than me that helps me sometimes.

[Avtar]

I designed and uploaded my first website a lot of years ago. I think I believed I was a webmaster back then. But it was only until a few months later till I found out a lot more, did a lot more learning and research and finally put up a website that had... quite a lot of stuff in it. It was centered around the interests of my friends and myself. Football, News, stuff like that. I had set up an e-mail service with ZZN as well, was quite epic for a while. It was then that I was in talks with my school to build their website, it just never seemed to materialize though.

Oh well. So yeah, since I've been about 14-15 I'm thinking.

But real Webmaster? No, not even yet.

[Wrighty]

I created my first site at the age of about 12... HTML on Freewebs!


So in theory, I was a webmaster then!

[Pritchard [Epic][Girly Boy]]

Been a webmaster for a little over five years. Various RC forums, and related sites. Then my own sites, business sites, and many others.

[ScottCool]

I've been on computers since I was 11 and started freewebs a few years after, i'm 15 now
(Yes I was on PB at 11)

[ŋєт™]

Nov 4, 2008 8:08:54 GMT ScottCool said:

(Yes I was on PB at 11)

*gasp* I'm tellinnnnnnnnnn

[Avtar]

Nov 3, 2008 23:23:37 GMT Wrighty said:

I created my first site at the age of about 12... HTML on Freewebs!


So in theory, I was a webmaster then!

FreeWebs is used by probably 1/5th of all internet users. They're not all webmasters. Ask them what bandwidth is and they'll LAWL in your face.

[Saknika]

I got my first domain this past January. I'm still learning, but I definitely have the basics down pat enough to be comfortable with what I am doing. So... 2008? xD

[Infinite]

I haven't really been a practicing webmaster as of recently, but my first webmaster experience was probably a few years ago around 2003 or 2004 when I was 14 or 15.

I had used Geocities to try and put up my own website and template, but I guess you can't really consider that being a Webmaster. However, shortly after I bought the domain WorldWebDesigns.net and tried to start my own designing company, but managed to only get the under construction page/image up, and half of the website done before I lost interest, lol. I guess I can blame that on my short attention span as a 15 year old male, lol. #xd.gif#

However, through that domain I got my first introduction into Control Panel, FTP, etc. And from there kind of just picked up small things in Control Panel through trial and error.

After that, I have just uploaded and managed a few websites for some online gaming clans that I have played with. As of currently I am in charge of www.highpointgaming.com as I help to manage the website and created/maintain the forums.

[.Jordan]

i would say ive been a webmaster for about 6 years, i first started with a green day fansite then i created a less than jake fansite, both were up for about a year with quite alot of good content and alot of traffic, then my host went down and never got them back up. ive also owned a tutorial website which got about 1000 uniques a week. had a flash game site ut not been updated in about 2 years.

also had a few other websites and projects running.

id say im fairly experienced to a certain point.

[Bobby Hensley]

I never really considered myself a webmaster of any sorts. I know web development, SEO, etc. but I never quite made it my focus. Systems development was always my thing. But in terms of how long I've been developing web-based systems... it has been about 6 or 7 years now. I first started getting heavily into it when I needed a way to provide access to programs I was developing. That was back when I was good friends with AwesomeAndrew and was using Visual Basic 6.0 haha.

[TheDiaryRoom]

The first website I coded on my own would've been when I was about 11, I think. I just sort of taught myself HTML over a few years, which is why all this new CSS-based layout stuff makes no sense to me. I still live in the tables era.

The first time I ever really became a "webmaster" would've been 2003, when I opened my first Big Brother fansite. It was small and very ugly, but we all have to start somewhere.

And I'm glad I never went through the Freewebs/Moonfruit stage most people seem to have these days.

[ŋєт™]

Nov 7, 2008 12:51:45 GMT TheDiaryRoom said:

And I'm glad I never went through the Freewebs/Moonfruit stage most people seem to have these days.

lol don't get me started