Websites for a hobby?

[Caddyman]

Anyone else a webmaster here? I don't know it is would call myself a Webmaster maybe like a webnovice..r? haha

Yeah but websites is my hobby, I work FT in the Engineering field and run a few websites on the side. Maybe one day the sites will make more then i make now and i can be my own boss, that is my goal ultimately.

I started using forums probably 4 years ago, the first forum i was on was for modding cell phones, i liked it and thought it was cool i could so easily connect with other that shared my interest. I worked my way up on that forum to where i was a Co-Admin. The admin and I became friends and he kept bugging me to start my own forum, i was hesitant, eventually though i caved and started my first site and it was all down hill from there. Forums are addictive and the people you meet sometimes become very good friends.

I decided my first site would be about Delaware. I actually live in Delaware now, in New Castle. It was started because i was posting on another DE forum and some of the good people there hated it cause it was not, in any way, moderated and trolls abounded. I decided that TalkDelaware (TD) would be the site i started and I did. It really took off, i was surprised by the suport i got from other Delawareans and it is now one of the top sites in Delaware period. We are enrolled in the Adopt-A-Highway program and also made a Appearance at the Special Olympics Plane Pull this year.

Then i entered TD into a contest on a admin forum and won another license for the forum software i use. My friend Green Lantern suggested we start a similar site for PA so we did that, TalkPennsylvania was born. We have had some rough patches there with bickering but overall it is doing very well.

Since Green Lantern lives in PA and is a "local" he runs that site and I share any revenue with him, I made it this way so people on the site didn't look at me as greedy, cause im not, im just trying to help people in these areas connect. All the sites are absolutely free of course to join and participate.

NOW with a suggestion from another friend, Frogman, i have started TalkMaryland. For basically the same reasons as i started the other sites, to give people another place to come together and chat. TalkMD is still pretty brand new and i have some members of the other sites pitching in to get it on it's feet but I hope that it will be popular in time.

so that's my hobby, anyone else run any websites? need any help with them? i'm always down for helping people out wherever i can...

-Caddy

[MrX (Premo)]

Cant say I run any right now, but like yourself have was a moderator then an admin on a cell phone modding site or two. Its something that interests me, just never persued it any further. Good luck with yours

[Caddyman]

Mr. X, what sites? I stuck mainly to the Nextel/iDEN sites myself....

InsiderForums
LowandLoud
TheNextelForums
NextelModz
A little on HoFo but....eh....kinda too strict there....lol

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Caddyman

Mr. X, what sites? I stuck mainly to the Nextel/iDEN sites myself....

InsiderForums
LowandLoud
TheNextelForums
NextelModz
A little on HoFo but....eh....kinda too strict there....lol

Me too

Not like there were too many modding sites for the other carriers though.

I was on all of the above, plus DJJeffa , Nextel Elite (moderator) , Nextel Hack (admin), and a few others whose names escape me right now.

I still have a ton of Nextel parts at home in the attic, as well as a few phones.

[Caddyman]

Then you should recognize my username MR.!

I know Jeff pretty well, and Nextel Elite was spawned from the grandaddy of them all IdenBros (my first forum i was ever a member of)

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Caddyman

Then you should recognize my username MR.!

I know Jeff pretty well, and Nextel Elite was spawned from the grandaddy of them all IdenBros (my first forum i was ever a member of)

Mine was also the same.....

of course its been quite a while since ive been on any of them regularly.

[Caddyman]

yep, it's a small internet.....LMAO

[MrX (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Caddyman

yep, it's a small internet.....LMAO

Indeed

[kelb (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Caddyman

Anyone else a webmaster here? I don't know it is would call myself a Webmaster maybe like a webnovice..r? haha

Yeah but websites is my hobby, I work FT in the Engineering field and run a few websites on the side. Maybe one day the sites will make more then i make now and i can be my own boss, that is my goal ultimately.

I started using forums probably 4 years ago, the first forum i was on was for modding cell phones, i liked it and thought it was cool i could so easily connect with other that shared my interest. I worked my way up on that forum to where i was a Co-Admin. The admin and I became friends and he kept bugging me to start my own forum, i was hesitant, eventually though i caved and started my first site and it was all down hill from there. Forums are addictive and the people you meet sometimes become very good friends.

I decided my first site would be about Delaware. I actually live in Delaware now, in New Castle. It was started because i was posting on another DE forum and some of the good people there hated it cause it was not, in any way, moderated and trolls abounded. I decided that TalkDelaware (TD) would be the site i started and I did. It really took off, i was surprised by the suport i got from other Delawareans and it is now one of the top sites in Delaware period. We are enrolled in the Adopt-A-Highway program and also made a Appearance at the Special Olympics Plane Pull this year.

Then i entered TD into a contest on a admin forum and won another license for the forum software i use. My friend Green Lantern suggested we start a similar site for PA so we did that, TalkPennsylvania was born. We have had some rough patches there with bickering but overall it is doing very well.

Since Green Lantern lives in PA and is a "local" he runs that site and I share any revenue with him, I made it this way so people on the site didn't look at me as greedy, cause im not, im just trying to help people in these areas connect. All the sites are absolutely free of course to join and participate.

NOW with a suggestion from another friend, Frogman, i have started TalkMaryland. For basically the same reasons as i started the other sites, to give people another place to come together and chat. TalkMD is still pretty brand new and i have some members of the other sites pitching in to get it on it's feet but I hope that it will be popular in time.

so that's my hobby, anyone else run any websites? need any help with them? i'm always down for helping people out wherever i can...

-Caddy

Im def. a novice but I do it and get paid LOL I do the Memories web page MEMORIES Nightclub & Bar of Waldorf, MD but they are on a budget and only let me do so much and I'm building a new one for restaurant that will open soon.

[Caddyman]

Very cool kel, the more you work online, the more you learn. I am a HORRIBLE coder, but im good with gfx/photoshop