Web Forums 9

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).

Information, reviews and discussion on domain name registrars.

Parking a domain name is a simple alternative to developing it. Although this saves time in activating a domain, such names require traffic in order to create a revenue stream for its owner/registrant. Note that search engines avoid providing traffic to such names, and promoting them is considered spamming the search engines and web directories. Domain name parking solution provider info, reviews, methods and discussion.

What's your domain name worth? This board is provided to offer a place for domain name appraisals and name valuations. WF9.com members may post registered names for critical review and ask for an estimated worth. Evaluations and prices given must be considered suggestions as personal opinions.

Premium domain name speculation, investment, development and trading. Generic names as traffic boosters. Names as brands. Names as Trademarks and intellectual property.

Domain names presented which are available for registration. For those of us who like to speculate as well as share ideas.

Domain names which have expired and been deleted from the registry record. these names may still have returning traffic or promotional links/listings throughout the web allowing you to utilize them to direct more traffic and value to your website.

Information, reviews and discussions on web hosts.

Announcements, information, reviews and discussions on virtual and dedicated web server solutions.

Cloud based solutions, information, reviews and discussion.

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.

This discussion group explores the special challenges to overcome in order to make your website more friendly to mobile users accessing your internet presence through devices which inheritently are limited to much lower resolutions such as smartphones, tablets and netbooks.

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.

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.

Press Releases offer one of the best paths to published link & listing distribution. Many such services are available for free online and some well written PR actually winds-up as news stories in the popular press. Be sure to announce new company/website/product/service news in PR statements to make the most of the power of media.

Distributed link and listing publishing is a means of announcing your website to the world. Search engines and web directories often encourage link and listing submissions. By getting your site published in such resources known to them as proper and popular, search engines often respond with favorable rankings in the search results to reflect the site's promotion knowledge, and its considered popularity. Some search optimizers refer to this as "off-site" or "off-page optimization". We consider it another step of many in website promotion.

This discussion board is a means for people to discuss the link exchange method of distributing published link and listings throughout the internet. It is fair to say that there is benefit in this type of program when both parties approve of each other's links and listings. Extra benefit is gained when two websites exchange links between websites of related subjects that do not directly compete with each other. Webmasters may leave their link & listing here for others to decide whether or not they would like to exchange links with the website in question. Please note that trilateral link exchanges (Site A links to Site B. Site B links to Site C. Site C links to Site A.) are almost always scams and are not permitted here.

Again, the more you can get your link out there, the better. Although banner exchange programs usually lack the ability to provide text for the search engines to crawl, banners themselves offer a great dynamic for brand presence and visually reaching out to humans that actually might use & buy your product/service.

PPC (pay-per-click) advertisement links are usually masked through the service provider, offering deceptive popularity for such a system. Still, advertising this way, as well as placing ads on popular related websites, are often great opportunities for quick exposure for new sites, products, services and announcing time sensitive specials.

Authoritative websites with traffic offer something companies crave, viewers. Therefore, some may offer annual rates to advertise on your site. But what do the ads say? How not to get lost displaying ads that are objectionable, offensive or directly compete with your business.

Information websites still have to cover their expenses, and if you are a dedicated webmaster, you should be compensated for your efforts. This discussion board explores the various methods of creating income generating PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising streams, and getting them to work.

The digital lifestyle has long gone mobile through smartphones, tablets, netbooks and other devices. It seems that all websites are building an app to offer their customers mobile functionality, or promote their presence through a game. This discussion group explores such possibilities and recommends a few app developers.

Games are a great means of promoting a company/website/product/service. Games can be an exclusive offering or display ads internally. I am fond of such games as Need For Speed which included advertising on billboards from various sponsors, which could make such games virtually free without resorting to spam.