What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

[nuttytigger]

His Dad owns all those classic cars?

No lol, should've said his dads club. He has a cortina right now, before that was a dolomite and a spitfire.

[sf1378]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

No lol, should've said his dads club. He has a cortina right now, before that was a dolomite and a spitfire.

My old man had Cortina MK IV's and maybe V's, he passed his test in a Triumph Dolomite first time round - when asked to perform the eponymous 'emergency stop', he breaked so hard that the Test Instructors forehead hit the dashboard!

[jrt2345]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

onthebusesfan has his own forum at http://somemuvvasdoaveem.forumotion.co.uk/ .

I am co-admin and am improving it for him, so don't expect miracles...

John

[Retrogames]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

I can highly recommend google sites for building a website easily:
http://www.medinner.co.uk is my site that's been up in one form or another for half a decade, and I have a few more i'm working on. For me, low numbers and low site hits are fine- creating a decent site with content that doesn't have to be updated all that much will take time, my medinner website has gone from a site that took hours to create documenting each episode of that programme to basically a link site, as I found that all my visitors wanted was access to the links, not loads of content.

I've got two good commercial ideas, both of which are going to take half a decade to grow. In the time medinner has been up i've had a million hits on my medinner youtube videos, im now heading in to creating my own videos linked to my job (im a teacher) and have thought of a way to combine making videos for my lessons with uploading them to youtube for oher teachers to use, as well as the large american homeschooling network. If I can hit a million views every five years (and In Bed With Medinner was such an unseen late night programme that surely it's possible) then I reckon I can make a couple of thousand quid a year from my idea fairly quickly.

Forums are great but I believe the sign up rigmarole puts people off, the forums I know that do well are current- people trade games, memories, etc. anyhing based on a tv prog that is available on dvd only has a limited chat market, people will run out of things to say. Its difficult to build an active forum, id always go for static content eg pages of detailed information which takes longer but builds a site of information that people will always be googling as they remember the prog. Even just pages of photos and captions organised into sections (eg pre 1980, post 1990) will attract more of an audience than a forum to begin with. We should get some advice from the site runners here, they do a good job eh!

My other site idea fits into my posterous account; lits of times i've picked up something cool at the car booter, got home and googled it to find that the only info is for ebay auctions of the items. Im slowly adding to my posterous account the things I buy, and i'll put these posts into a google sites website at some point, so if someone googles eg PC Pinkerton toy my site comes up and they get some information. Rather than have a website with just a few bits on it i decided to blog my finds, i've just taken a good break from adding to it as I movd house, changed job, and am having a new baby next month. Nobody is reading the blog but I dont expect to build an audience for a good few years, by which time I should have at least a hundred retro items on there that have no other information elsewhere on the web for them.

[a_c_g_t]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

I have my own website

http://www.data-technology.co.uk

It's v basic and dry as I am more interested in the Mysql databases that lie beneath it to run some remote systems.

[jrt2345]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

George's forums -

SMDAE Forum

OFAH Forum

http://somemuvvasdoaveem.forumotion.co.uk/

http://onlyfoolsandhorses.forumotion.co.uk/

[onthebusesfan]

if you like only fools and horses

if you like only fools and horses heres a forum that i made please join we need members thank you.http://onlyfoolsandhorses.forumotion.co.uk/

[jrt2345]

Are You Being Served Fan Club & Forum

iF YOU REMEMBER THIS FABULOUS bbc cOMEDY then you'll love this!

http://aybsfanclubandforum.forumotion.co.uk/

[Heather74]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

Three threads merged. Please stick to this one thread. thank you

[victorbrunswick]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

I belong to several other forums. Among them are:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/forum.php -- My online home away from home as it were. Its focus is the clothing, music and history of the period from the 1920s through the 1950s.
http://micechat.com/forums/forum.php -- A Disney parks forum
http://forums.watchuseek.com/forum.php -- Another one of my interests is watches, particularly Russian mechanical watches.

[davidthomas27]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

I've just joined the Thundercats Lair forum - my username on there is Shortfuse, the same one I use on doctorwhotoys.net.

[darren]

Re: Anyone have their own website?

i recently joined.
dr who online
grange hill online.

[xmark1234]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

i have my own web site for my company please take a look my be we can help you one day :- www.leektoolsandfasteners.co.uk

[jrt2345]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

The British Sitcom and Comedy Forums, highly recommend it. For all funny things, whether on or off the set.

http://britishsitcom-comedy.forumotion.co.uk/

[jrt2345]

Re: What other forums/websites do you belong to/own?

UK and Worldwide Car and Motor Forums

http://motorvehicles.forum-phpbb.co.uk/