The Spain forum as it is today has taken over two years to grow and develop from my early dabbling with web site design.
Originally I had no intention or idea about developing an internet forum. Things have just progressed from a simple idea and grown with time.
In January 2003 I was involved in a car accident. Which left me with a damaged back and a career as a refrigeration and air con engineer in tatters.
Originally I had no intention or idea about developing an internet forum. Things have just progressed from a simple idea and grown with time.
In January 2003 I was involved in a car accident. Which left me with a damaged back and a career as a refrigeration and air con engineer in tatters.
The begining of the Spain forum continued
Posted 12-06-2008 at 08:21 PM by Lee
Several weeks later the weather station was broadcasting everything from the wind speed to the temperature of my pond to the internet. After all everyone needs to know your pond temperature
A friend introduced me to internet forums.
Rather than just being a member of one, I was introduced to the designing and running and hosting side.
My internet experience was still very limited. Even more so on the full understanding of just how things worked.
Over the next twelve months, everything was going well. Hits were increasing, new members were joining every day.
I had changed the forum software from a free version to a more secure, better supported version along with changing web host to one could better cope with the new changes. The forum software is still in use today.
When I changed web hosting supplier, I gained yet another web site address. At the time I never though it would be used or have much need for it.
April 2007 was a bad month for the forum.
The guy I had originally purchased some web space from and the Catral Spain dot com address from was ignoring my emails to renew the address. Contacting the company that it was registered through ended up being a non runner.
I had been caught out by a scam artist.
Let a mug build up internet traffic. Ignore them after their year is up and place a web site that is nothing more than a page full of adverts in the web sites place.
So a years worth of work and internet traffic building was down the drain.
Luckily the web site was hosted in other web space and I had the other domain name to fall back on. So all was not lost.
The last twelve months have meant a lot of hard work rebuilding the traffic that was lost.
Falling back on the other domain name, The Spain Forum dot com, has worked in my favour. It gives the forums much more scope for growth and the ability to change with the members needs
Oh yea the the weather station that started all this off. Its still in daily use along with having its own web site where you can find the latest weather conditions for Catral.
Instead of monitoring a pond, we now monitor our pool temperature. No point in jumping in a swimming pool to see if its cold, I just glance at another computer monitor
A friend introduced me to internet forums.
Rather than just being a member of one, I was introduced to the designing and running and hosting side.
My internet experience was still very limited. Even more so on the full understanding of just how things worked.
Over the next twelve months, everything was going well. Hits were increasing, new members were joining every day.
I had changed the forum software from a free version to a more secure, better supported version along with changing web host to one could better cope with the new changes. The forum software is still in use today.
When I changed web hosting supplier, I gained yet another web site address. At the time I never though it would be used or have much need for it.
April 2007 was a bad month for the forum.
The guy I had originally purchased some web space from and the Catral Spain dot com address from was ignoring my emails to renew the address. Contacting the company that it was registered through ended up being a non runner.
I had been caught out by a scam artist.
Let a mug build up internet traffic. Ignore them after their year is up and place a web site that is nothing more than a page full of adverts in the web sites place.
So a years worth of work and internet traffic building was down the drain.
Luckily the web site was hosted in other web space and I had the other domain name to fall back on. So all was not lost.
The last twelve months have meant a lot of hard work rebuilding the traffic that was lost.
Falling back on the other domain name, The Spain Forum dot com, has worked in my favour. It gives the forums much more scope for growth and the ability to change with the members needs
Oh yea the the weather station that started all this off. Its still in daily use along with having its own web site where you can find the latest weather conditions for Catral.
Instead of monitoring a pond, we now monitor our pool temperature. No point in jumping in a swimming pool to see if its cold, I just glance at another computer monitor
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