Hi all,
 I'm WHeisenberg, folks call me WHeis.  Real name is John.

 My main site URL is netavation.com

 Sites I work on include www.lightyourfire.com, personnelhealth.com
and videogameawards.com
 I've been writing in HTML since 'www' arrived, and have used
ColdFusion since it was in it's first Beta.
 I do all the layouts, graphics, database setups, application design,
hosting and every other part of the sites I work on - other than
content.
 My main site was started (though it's been renamed) in 1997 and used
to be a huge internet magazine - with 'zines' for kids, cars, food,
parenting and just about any other topic you could dream up.
Unfortunately my client list exploded (grew) around seven years ago
and I no longer had time to keep new content in it, so I got a new
domain name for it and here we are.
 My biggest project was an electronic medical records system for
clinics/hospitals, and that has now moved up to writing software for
healthcare clinical trials.
 My biggest client was the 'big MS', for which I wrote the RMA system
for the XBox.

 I recently moved to Virginia from California, and when I'm not
attached at the wrist to a keyboard I'm usually building something
(houses, gazebos, decks, cars, motorcycles, boats) or out for a ride
on my GSXR when it's not freezing.
 I'm a fan of humor (Family Guy and House - two shows I wont miss) and
love movies.  My favorite part of any movie is the directors
commentaries when they come out on DVD.

 I'm pretty 'old school' when it comes to writing code or building
sites.  I still do them all by hand, clear down to the line breaks.  I
can adapt to change, but when that change is (imho) unwarranted or
cumbersome - I'll be sure to complain about it :)

 Looking forward to learning a lot here - and hope I can help where
I'm able,
 WHeis

Hi there, I'm Adam Moro. I'm here to get to know all of you as well as
hear what Google has to say about controversial SEO topics. All you
really need to know about me is that I spend most of my free time on
the web and I'm eager to help kind people.

/Adam

Hi my name is Alan
I am an Asp .Net Applications developer.
Born at a very early age in Manchester, UK, spent most of my life in
Australia, currently residing on one of the 7107 exotic islands in the
Philippines.
My passion is database applications like Sql Server and Ms Access
My current project an Asian dating site is really interesting in
regard to database queries, reporting and membership administration.
The site is http://www.akojo.com
Started in: 07, it includes Asp .Net membership profiling and photo
galleries enabling members to meet Asian women. I originally began
writing this site for my wife and her friends who are seeking foreign
partners.

When I am not working on some mind-bending stored procedure that is a
wonder to behold and joy forever.
I like to go fishing and drink icy cold beer or;
Do some light gardening, propagating orchids or;
Spend quality time with my beautiful new Filipina wife or;
Cooking mouth-watering blue marlin cutlets, hacked off with a machete'
by an enthusiastic palenkero in the local market,

Alan ";0)

On Dec 4 2007, 8:05 am, Adam Lasnik wrote:

Hi my name is Chris Kelly and I am fairly new to creating websites. I
live and work in the UK just outside of London and have recently
started a discount website called getMEdiscount. Rather unsuprisingly
it can be found at http://www.getmediscount.com You can find whatever
you neeed from the website with an extra discount thrown in to make it
that bit cheaper - sorry, shameless plug.

As a sort of new person to this i am very interested to find out what
tips and tricks people have to good SEO and in particular backlinks.

Please feel free to contact me via [email address]

Jordan Earl from Victoria BC Canada here.  I work full time at my
brother's pizza shop and I hope to create websites for people who may
need them on the side.  Currently I am redesigning and scripting
http://www.timeless-photography.ca .  I made v1 while I was in school
and she now needs something more robust.  I have no personal site
created yet.

I'm Jerry you can call me Jay, i'm an SEO consultant and programmer
I work with a online media company and do some powerfull custom work.
Just now got into the SEO part of the bus here is some of my work:

http://www.whiterosepolo.co.uk/about.html

On Dec 4 2007, 12:05 am, Adam Lasnik wrote:

Hey everyone, how's it going.

My name's Andy, and I run a collectors / enthusiasts networking site -
http://www.everyonecollects.com. I've joined Webmaster Help because
sooner or later, everyone reaches the point where they need to ask
someone for a little bit of advice, when they don't know where to turn
next, and this group seems like the perfect place to get a few
pointers.

I've got two dogs - Bob and Milly, both terriers. I work on property
restorations when the web's not stealing all my time, which means my
wife barely gets a look-in some days.

I've lived in Australia for 7 years before returning to the UK.

My biggest interests online concern the old chestnut 'Page Rank' and
the like... but isn't everyone interested in that to some degree?

One thing that i'd be keen to do is exchange links or banners, and I'd
be happy to add either to my site, provided they're appropriate. I
figure exchanging links is a good way to improve a site's profile, and
hopefully it'll be more successful than sending off stacks of requests
and getting no responses.

Take it easy & thanks for reading.

Andy.

http://www.everyonecollects.com

Hi Everyone,

My name is Mariya - yet another Googler from the Search Quality Team
happy to join the discussion on webmastering here. My own web
experience goes back to the late 90s when frames and animated gifs
were all the rage and I cut my teeth making fan sites for my favourite
bands on GeoCities. Since then, I've had the opportunity to work on a
number of more serious and complex projects for large corporate
sites.

I am originally from Bulgaria - a land famous for roses, yoghurt,
football (misnamed stateside as soccer (-: ), and recently, sumo
wrestlers. Outside of Google, I enjoy sports, such as Wikipedia
surfing and football watching, and on the more active side, mountain
hiking and volleyball. I have a linguistics background, and grammar
books are right at the top of my reading list with novels and blogs. I
love learning new languages and I speak a few, so you may see me
chatting with webmasters in the German or Russian groups, for
instance.

I am really excited to be part of the group and look forward to
learning a lot and hopefully adding to the helpful voices in an
already lively discussion.

Talk to you soon~
Mariya

On Dec 3 2007, 4:05 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:

Hi I'm Steve

I'm a Nottingham,UK based web developer getting into search marketing
(since May '07) and trying to be 'white hat' in everything I do. Love
helping folk out if I can, fussy about clients I take on - I think you
can make money and still have ethics and morals!

All my work is referral & my own site isn't up to much www.steveneale.com
(tut tut!) so I'll promote my main client www.dcmmoney.co.uk who are
one of the good firms that look after people with debts, which is
handy because if I can't make money then I'll be their client!

Anyway - looking to learn a shed load of stuff and contribute where I
can. I've been looking at the group for months but now I actually feel
like I know some stuff I'm more confident about posting and helping
others.

anyway.....a happy and prosperous 2008 to everyone!

Hi,

I'm Owen. I am the web master for a large vocational education
organisation in Australia. We use "s" instead of "z" Downunder.
(That's English :-)

I've been working on the web for over 10 years now, computer based
training multimedia products on CD-ROM before that.

I've achieved a BA Contemporary Music, Production Major in 1995. Cert
III in IT 1999, Cert IV IT Website Management 2002 and Cert IV in
Workplace Assessment and Training 2003. About time I got another
qualification don't your think? I'm currently investigating post
graduate options along the user experience, human computer
interaction, user centered design fields.

Current internet website http://www.nci.tafensw.edu.au is pretty big
at 1500 or so pages. It is mostly course information. I've been
training contributors to add content using Adobe Contribute, which
works surprisingly well, and I'm working on rolling out a pure CSS
layout design 2008. I implemented a SEO strategy and training in 2004
which has been very successful. I've also run some Adwords campaigns
with the guys at Google Sydney 2006/2007. We also have a pretty big
Intranet which I've been managing which on top of a busy Internet
presence is a lot for one person in an organisation of 2000 staff and
40,000 students.

My areas of expertise are web design, usability, user experience,
human computer interaction, user centered design, accessibility,
search engine marketing and optimisation, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, XML,
XSLT etc.

I'm very grateful for the excellent FREE products and support Google
has created for us in the Webmaster Tools and Analytics suites, groups
and blogs. Also the fun stuff like maps and earth. Keep it up!

I have to admit, I do suffer from Google envy. Perhaps one day... I'm
updating my CV tonight :-)

Hobbies include drums, guitar, music, home brewing etc

My partner and I have enjoy travel very much having lived and worked
in southern China and traveled extensively overland through SE Asia.
We've been to Bali Indonesia several times for surfing but I wouldn't
recommend it to anyone ;-). We're pretty serious about our surfing and
try to travel OS to a tropical surfing destination every couple of
years. We're also into multi-day hiking, mountain biking and adventure
racing. You've got to do something to counter all that time staring
into a CRT or LCD hey?

Hi I'm Bruce

My main site is http://boreal.net/ which I have been running since
1995. Actually from 1995 to 1998 it was hstone.com/wilderness.
I also run a another site http://canadiansurvival.info/ which was
designed a few years ago out of a conversation with a number of
colleges around a camp fire that Survival Instructors (which is my
occupation) in Canada needed a site to link us together and since I
was the only one of the group who was computer literate and had a
website already I was volunteered. I think it might be the only
website designed around a campfire.

As well as running the Boreal Wilderness Institute and being a Company
Sgt-Major in the Canadian Infantry Reserve I also teach basic XHTML
courses part-time at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).
This got started by complete fluke, one day I was talking to an old
army buddy who was teaching at NAIT and the conversation lead to web
design. We asked me since I teach for a living and understand web
design why don't I teach web design.

I spend my spare time (what little there is) Canoing, Hiking and
Backpacking in Canada's wilderness.