Was your first website a forum?

A few pages on Geocities, about 5 years ago. Darkest blue background with white letters, along with every crappy html tag such as <font> and <center>

 

Some poor site on AOL hometown, then a really early form of my current site. Said current site had actually gone through about four or five iterations before now, so my first website was definitely not a forum. Heck, I don't think I knew what a forum was or how to get one back then.

 

I'm proud to say that I never got involved with AOL, and I've never used free hosting (not bragging, just thankful).

Unfortunately my first site was on Yahoo! Hosting and it included my domain name (which is still locked up to this day, and this was many years ago.

In my previous post, instead of Photoshop, I meant that I used slices and HTML from ImageReady.

 

Funny last time I checked two of my first domains which I registered for a one year period many years ago, probably 2001-2002, are still registered by Yahoo. I'm guessing they're hoping I'll come back for them and they'll make a bundle off of me wanting my old domain.

 

I'd love to have my old domain back, but I doubt I'll ever see it again. There's no way I'm paying whatever exorbitant amount they'd want.

 

Yes.

I started out using a FREE forum host and then as I learned more and more within a year I was hosting my own vBulletin forum I am still learning today and my forums come along way since 2006 but I am delighted in how much I have learned from others and how far my project has come along.

I think forums are a passion of mine over any other websites/scripts I do love a good social networking script though like PHPFOX. lol

Rick

 

My first website was a Tripod site, it didn't have a website. My second site was also a tripod site but I linked a forum to it. The forum was powered by Conforums. A few months later I bought my first domain and hosting account. This is when I found out that paid hosts didn't supply you with all those fancy website builder tools :lol:. I ended up learning html and made a very basic website. I used cPanel to install phpBB, ran that for a while until I got the whole thing down. Ah the old days .

 

Yep, a free hosted phpBB2 forum was my first ever website

 

No!!!! :lol:

 

No. My first website was for a large fundraiser for which I was co-chair. The fundraiser was for a big Chamber of Commerce. I asked them to set the fundraiser as a subweb on their website. They declined and said if I wanted a website, to build it myself. I went to one of the Chamber members who ran a local ISP. He asked a lot of questions trying to determine my knowledge level, which was low. He finally agreed to help me if I would do it in Frontpage, which he felt would be the quickest and easiest for me to learn. Numerous website later, I have found that I enjoy doing them and I maintain several for customers. I also joined several forums to learn about numerous interests. Last year, one of the owners asked me if I was interested in learning vBulletin and helping out on his forum. After some consideration I agreed, and I am now the administrator who makes the decisions on choosing Moderators, setting up and assisting them. I now cruise numerous forums about vBulletin and ask questions about specific issues. I do not yet have my own forum, but I have begun to contact several friends and existing customers about creating one. We just need to find the right niche and make sure it is something that we all can get excited about.

 

My first website was a Geocities website, dedicated to rehashed information for the game WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (this was when Nintendo 64 game hacking/modding was huge, roughly '98 - '01). I kept it running for about three months, generated about 30 views and figured I'd look elsewhere. My second attempt was a NetFirms account, another really basic site, but I'd started to get into iKonBoard at that time (I'd followed UBB/Madrona Park since about '96, because it was different at the time, but never had the urge to run my own), and installed my first ever forum, a poorly-run iKonBoard 2 forum that I called "iKon Installers" hoping to turn it into an installation business. Obviously, people aren't going to come flocking to freely hosted website dedicated to installing a forum software that iB would install themselves securely, so it too failed.

Eventually I re-launched my WM2K site, on a real hosting account, and turned it into a blanket gaming site, hoping to bring in more people. We started on ezBoard, then migrated to wBB 1.1.1e (the one that looked near identical to vB), before finally setting up shop with my first vB license. I still own that particular site, but it's basically dead now, sadly.

Long story short, no, my first attempt at a website was not a forum; however, my first genuine website (not a freely hosted webpage) did include a forum.

 

My first forum was on InvisionFree, if I can remember. Unfortunately it wasn't my first website though.