This board is dedicated to offering the rules and guidelines necessary to run a spam-free and stress-free web based webmaster's resources and discussion community.

News and announcements concerning Web Forums 9, as they occur.

This particular discussion board is dedicated to allowing you to introduce yourself. You may discuss who you represent and leave links to your personal and professional connections as well, just don't spam us with a sales job. Many of us webmasters all do pretty much the same thing, after all.

Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board. However, please note that spam is still not allowed here (or anywhere on this site).

The daily grind of webmastering and administration of a website, whether static, dynamic or content management driven. This board is mainly dedicated to discussions involving the day-to-day management of a website, blog, directory or other online community.

Website Design: Conceptualizing, creating and cultivating the look of a website. Incorporating a professional, positive impact logo, designing a set of custom web templates or modifying an existing mass produced site templet. Deciding whether or not to utilize Flash in the presentation. Keeping your HTML and CSS code web standards compliant. Making your site user friendly. Visual design & customization.

User interface Design & navigation. Interactive navigational elements, horizontal nav bars, drop-down and fly-out menus establish the feel of a website. CSS and Javascript based website/user interactive navigation design and engineering. Visual interactivity design through coding logic. JQuery, Mootools and other frameworks.

Developing a website by adding functionality through logical coding, or by adding web application scripts to the website. php & MySQL, ASP.NET & SQL. Java & Javascript functions. Content Management Systems (CMSes), link exchange directories, forums and blog software packages.

Websites that offer valuable original info should rank higher in the results for specific keywords and key phrases after an internet search. However, many such sites offer the search engine crawlers stumbling blocks via poor coding techniques, slow servers, missing links or bloated graphics. This board takes on "Search Engine Optimization" (aka "SEO") myths and discusses how to really take advantage of internet search.