What was your first website you created and when? I helped my friend to run a gaming fansite, he didn't want it so I actually owned it and later sold the website for £10, and that was when I was about 12, so about five years ago. However my first website I actually created was a portfolio, it was really bad and the content was crap but learnt more HTML through that way, which benefited me amazingly.
My first wesite was a forum. I was a member on a forum for around a year and then became a mod on another forum. After some time I realised I may be able to run a forum myself, four years later I run twoforums and admin on 3 others. Money made to date is zero, but I'm not doing it for money I'm doing it for the love of OK OK, I'm crap at making money :wink:
It was a free site not that you can really call it much of a site and it was just a personal one for my girlfriend, it didnt really have any purpose but it was fun making it back then. I was about 17 roughly so 5 years ago now.
The first website I ever run was a joint effort with a person I knew online. It was called The Frozen Realm and was a poetry site.
My first website was a forum we put together with three other friends from a clan, cuz we were kicked out of another one for a browser game called Ogame. Someone mentioned that invisionfree was this cool company that let peeps make sites for free. We got one going called DarkMatters, and its the same site we use now, cept we now pay big bills . Our first and only forum, first love! DarkMatters gogo
First web site I ever made was a personal site on Tripod.com. It was effectively a blog (before blogs were ever around) I had pages of pictures for family members who lived far away to see along with various tid-bits about life and observations and thoughts. I found it was a really good way to learn basic HTML because the process allowed both graphic and straight code design, so you could do it graphically and then see the code behind it, so it kind of taught you as you made the site.
First website was a personal site created on my ISP user sites using there website builder. Then I created my first real site on Xoom . A programming source code sharing site. Mostly dos apps and games created with basic and qbasic. Then when Windows 95 was released the site morphed into a visual basic site. Shortly after I added a forum to the site. That was in 1998 using Matt Wrights wwwboard. Opened a few more sites along the way and sold a few too.
It was for a course in college, but I had set up ftp servers before then and was on IRC a lot. Back before instant message clients, and the days of an old windows program called wintalk.
In 2001 I created a forum called lotr-boards before the first film came out. Somewhere around 2003 or 4 I handed it off to the head moderators because I had lost interest in the topic lol.
2002 - randomkinkysquad.co.uk (RKS) ^A silly college related project, where I learned the ins and outs of phpBB2 and got my taste for forum administration. RKS was an [unoriginal] project of 10 or so college friends, including me, doing stupid shit in front of a camera and posting it on the internet (well, back in 2002 before youtube that was kinda cool!). The forum was never really open to the public but became quite popular around college and gathered quite a crowd together. 2003 - thediscussionforum.com (TDF) ^This was my first proper attempt to create my own discussion forum and one I so wish I would have maintained, because back then it grew quite quickly and was quite active, and there was still room for new 'general discussion' type websites then. I closed it down because I only had one vB license and wanted to use it for my next project, which neatly leads me on to; 2004 - 2008 - startrek-online.net (STOnet) ^I read about a new Star Trek MMO being developed and wanted to create a fansite, we built the site around vBulletin, developed a really neat and unique custom style and within a couple of years grew into the major fansite with thousands of members and hundreds of thousands of posts, with daily interaction from the game developers and a huge host of content. Sadly a number of events lead to its eventual demise, not least the fact the game studio making the game we were a fansite for collapsing. Eventually Star Trek Online did get picked up, finished and released by another studio, but by that time I and the rest of the staff of STOnet had burned out and washed out hands of it all. 2005 - 2006 - sitonthefence.net (SOTF) ^This was a politically charged forum that I started about six months or so after STOnet, we started it up as a phpBB board, converted to IPB and eventually got another vB license for it. The site was custom skinned and had some really intelligent, regular contributors but unfortunately fell by the wayside as STOnet became my primary focus. As with TDF, I regret not keeping on top of this and maintaining the site because again I believe we could have built something really great and well positoned, we were I believe one of the first sites to really embrace the idea of user contributed blogs, as well as jumping on the podcasting wagon nice and early. There have been various other domains and forums I've owned but aren't really worth a mention, mainly related to games I've been playing at the time. I was also a moderator of many other forums in my time as an admin of my own and was well into the scene for about five years between 03-08 when I closed down STOnet. Have not really done any administration since then, but am thinking about it now... hehe.
Made my first site about 10 years ago using basic html. It was a gaming website dedicated o game enhancement and code hacking. We had a froum for it too, it was pretty good but it died out after an inevitable server crash...10 years later, I have another growing gaming site that has already surpassed my original in almost every way.
I always wanted to ask, who did your skin? As for my first website it was something on Angel Fire (free host , no control panel or FTP), I can't even remember what it had on it.
It's Schot, he's the other admin and is guru tech and does the custom stuff. You can see the progression of skins he's put together for us over the years here: Brief History of DarkMatters gogo
My first was an IPB 1.3 from forumer, the topic was on mud trucks and 4 wheeling and I think that was 4-5 years ago. The idea of vB being better was a weird science to me then as that is what everyone on admin sites seemed to talk about as I knew nothing of forum software, but I am happy I didn't go vB and now on IPB 3.1.4
I made my first forum in 2005 on one of the freebie foum sites. After a year I decided to move to 'proper' hosting and launched the forum on SMF. Everyone followed over on 28th Jan 2006, but we could not take the existing posts with us. We have had some major fall outs over the years and most of the members have now left, but there are 5 or 6 of us who still post daily, so, for sentimental reasons I won't close it.
LOL I was 14, so that was... 1998 haha! I was using like one of the first models of WebTV and discovered that I could create a website. I used the free space provided by webtv, my domain was something like http://hosting.webtv.com/users/hosting/shawn_gossman/webtv_tricks/ lol. I learned HTML in about 3 weeks, that's all it took lol. I made a site where people could trick out webtv with keyboard codes, colors and such...just neat little unknown tips and tricks. The site is long gone but it was wonderful to think of it again so thanks for the post also about a year later, I discovered forums and went to proboards and made forums there, then freepgs.com and made a phpbb2 forum and then went to smf then to mybb then to vb and ipb
