Gay Webmasters Forum

How to get 1st member for comunity site?

2010-02-16T12:13:59-08:00

Hello,
I am scratching a new site, it will be a free gay community site where members can interact with others (Okay, similar to popular dating site) but i wonder, how to get a first member and also to get more members? Anybody has experience on this? I know Dick Hunter did with one of his site.

How long does it take to master Web Programming PHP?.?

2010-02-15T00:06:15-08:00

Hello..
Currently i’m interested in web programming. I’m still a beginner and just wondering how long does it take to completely master web programming namely PHP??

Introductions Thread

2006-02-10T11:41:32-08:00

I’ve created this thread for people to introduce themselves to the community. I guess I’ll get things going…

My name is Dick Hunter and I run GayWebmasters.com, RateARod.com, RateARear.com, QueerFetish.com and others. I got my start in the adult biz through Audio Text, also known as phone sex, back in 1997. That’s also when I built my first, rather pathetic looking webpage, to promote a date line. I’ve always been a porn junkie, so it was a natural progression when I started my first adult site in 1999. It was just a simple AVS site, but before long I had 150 simple AVS sites, and it was time to go full-time. In 2000 I launched my first membership site, QueerFetish.com, and then in 2001 I had an idea for a “Hot or Not” style rating site for penises. RateARod.com was born, and caught on right from the get go. It wasn’t long before Howard Stern was telling Robin and his listeners about the “Hall of Shame” on RateARod, joking that his picture belongs in there.

In 2004 I took on the persona of Dick Hunter when I began directing videos. I re-branded my websites as “Dick Hunter’s...”, which was a great fit for RateARod in particular. Shortly after the release of my last video, “An Army Of Fun”, I began working on the development on GayWebmasters.com. Which brings us right up to the present.

Who’s next?

Grabby Host Hotel Update 2010

2010-02-02T18:02:19-08:00

The Grabbys have once again selected the Hard Rock Hotel as its host hotel for the 2010 award show. Prices start at just $99 for a deluxe king room. There are a VERY limited number of 2 queen bedded rooms starting at $129. Due to the popularity of 2 queen rooms you may want to book these ASAP! This year International Mr Leather has moved back to the Hyatt Regency Chicago, just around the corner from the Hard Rock. The rates there are DOUBLE what we are charging at the Hard Rock so it is anticipated that many of the attendees to that event will be booking at the Hard Rock to save money. There is no way to prevent attendees of IML from booking at the Hard Rock. Once our group block is full there may not be any rooms available at $99. The good thing is if you make a reservation now, you have up until 24 hours prior to your check in time to cancel. http://www.AwardShowHotel.com

Phoenix Forum or White Party

2010-02-02T17:47:26-08:00

As most of you know by now this years Phoenix Forum is a week later than usual and the White Party Palm Springs is a week earlier than usual putting them on the same weekend. Which will you be going to if either? I want to go to PHX4UM but I may have to work at the White Party. Anyone want to drive from Phoenix to Palm Springs on Saturday?

Warning Page

2010-01-26T16:14:15-08:00

Does anyone know how to keep all the pages of your site behind 1 warning page? There is a great plug in on wordpress that integrates this with the blog but I haven’t been able to find a way to do it to html pages.

Do you use RSS feeds?

2010-01-28T22:41:52-08:00

do you use RSS feeds? if so, what for and how?

it seems people use them for all kinds of different things i never imagined

Google Demands No More Censored Search Results In China.

2010-01-25T11:56:03-08:00

http://www.xbiz.com/news/116405?ln=web

No longer complying with the Chinese government’s extensive restrictions on online content, Google boldly declared that they are no longer filtering search engine results in China. This came after cyber accounts made on several Internet-based companies, including Google, originating from China. The country is known for its sever internet censorship that disallows pornography and conflicting political and religious content to be made available in local internet services. Google China, while complying with the country’s censorship laws, pointedly indicate in its search results that a particular entry was not displayed because of it’s not allowed for viewing

Shortcut to getting listed in Google

2006-09-20T11:35:34-08:00

Someone turned me on to this on one of my other sites:

Have you heard of GooglePages?

http://pages.google.com

Not many people have, but Google actually offer free web pages. Nothing too exciting about free web pages I know. But there is a “twist” to Google Pages.

Check this out.. the comment below was taken from a press release put out by Google in February 2006..."Pages created with Page Creator will be crawled by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) within a few hours, making the content immediately searchable. This is an advantage over other web-site hosts, which can take days to be included in Google’s search results” Read the full press release at the link below.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/23/google-page-creator-0223markets04.html

The pages you create at “GooglePages” will get listed on the Google Search Engine “within hours”.

Interesting stuff.

introduction

2010-01-25T10:32:11-08:00

Hello all, I’m roxyrohit and I suppose I’m just a nerd who enjoys tinkering with things. It all started with learning HTML (who could have thought that a markup language could bury me so deep ) and I have continued from there learning everything that I can about computers. I suppose my love affair with open source started in 8th grade when I heard about Linux on The Screensavers an interesting little technology show on TechTV. Then about two years ago I decided to go for using Linux and first used Ubuntu 5.04, and thus my journey began. Now on my laptop I’m running a nice upgraded version of Ubuntu 7.04 and my desktop has Suse 10.2 on it (by the way, KDE is where it’s at ). I enjoy being able to try out cool new things, like KDE4 and rockbox on my iRiver H320. Linux has allowed me the freedom to understand computers better and to experiment and change things, I greatly enjoy the freedom that open source software has given me. I’ve never worked on Drupal but somehow magically stumbled upon it when I heard that the Summer of Code was getting going. So far it’s been really awesome working with Drupal people and I even managed to e-mail Dries without knowing that he was the project lead .

I’m currently wasting time studying abroad at the Ollscoil na héireann, Gaillimh (National University of Ireland, Galway) and enjoying learning about embedded systems and drinking (Guinness is beautiful ). Studying and living in a different country has been an interesting experience and it really couldn’t be traded for anything. Before that, I was going to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology but I decided to transfer to the University of Minnesota. I decided in going to college that I was going to learn everything I could about computers so I decided to major in computer science and computer engineering.

I have a bunch of strange diverse interests. I enjoy watching anime, even though plenty of people think that it’s for kids, it’s really philosophical and interesting (Cowboy Bebop is awesome ). I also enjoy the martial arts, lately it has been Muay Thai boxing, I guess part of me enjoys pain. I also love video games and have been playing them since I was young. I started with games like Red Alert, Total Annihilation, Diablo and Team Fortress. I have since progressed to UT2K4 and Day of Defeat and would be happy to take you bastards on (I suppose I’m a first person shooter guru). I also enjoy going to restaurants at 2 in the morning and hanging out with my friends (most of whom are just as crazy as I am). Maybe more than anything I just enjoy sitting by a river a listening to the water flow by as I lose myself in the sounds around me.

I also enjoy a strange mix of music. Lately it has been Scandinavian death metal (Children of Bodom) mixed with video game music and underground rap.