Andy Forsberg’s Web Development History
I am currently 23-years old and I’ve been making web sites since I was only 12. Suffice to say I’ve created a lot of web sites over the years. I’ve gone through phases where I was working real hard and then slacking off for months. I’ve experienced a lot and I’ve learned a lot of lessons along the way. I’ve created this site to express myself and share my experiences over the years with the world. So to give you an idea of where I am now and where I’ve been, I thought I’d list of all the web site projects I’ve had over the years. At least the ones that are significant enough for me to remember.
I’ll explain each using the following format:
Web Site | My Age | Year
Summary of web site.
The List
South Park Fan Site | 12 | 1998
I began by creating a pathetic web site hosted on Geocities about South Park
PokeMart 2000 | 13 | 1999
I hopped on the Pokemon fad and scored lots of traffic. The people at ConsoleGaming.com were kind enough to provide my site with free hosting. I was contacted by Advertising.com and discovered I could make money from doing this stuff. I made around $250-500/month for a while there. It was great, I saved up the money and bought my first computer. Before this I used my family’s computer to do my work.
The Music Network RMP3.Net | 15 | 2001
I created an online music network, which hosted several large fan sites for various bands. It was essentially a music fan site network. This is when I began getting interviews with bands to post on the site, in addition to concert photos, fan art, forums, etc.
NeeHa | 15 | 2002
This was a private forum community I made for my friends that was password protected from the world. Definitely the best online community I’ve ever been in, because it was friends only.
AndyForsberg.com | 16 | 2002
This was essentially a community site for my friends. I would create pages about topics like: LAN Parties, Jack Handey Quotes, Fighting Salmon soccer team, etc. I would also host sub-domain web sites for my friends to create whatever they wanted with.
Get Some Noise | 17 | 2003
Some Australian guy contacted me about running a full-blown online music community web site for him. He made it sound like he had some cash he was going to invest. He paid for the server and the domain fees, so I was on board. RMP3.Net essentially moved to Get Some Noise with a new design and new name. Eventually all the fan sites left and Get Some Noise became its own. Then randomly I completely lost contact with the Australian guy (who’s name I can’t remember) and I ended up buying up the domain and making it on my own.
Digital Fluency | 18 | 2004
I joined forces with Stephen Fluin (a friend from high school) and created a web development company called Digital Fluency. This was our company’s official web site. Stephen maintains a personal web site of his own he called Mortal Powers.
Gamble Wisely | 18 | 2004
This was a gambling web site I always wanted to make, but never put enough effort into it. It sat on the web doing nothing for years before someone bought the domain name from us for a sweeet price. This was the only time purchasing a domain and reselling it has proved lucrative for me.
Get Some Lyrics | 19 | 2005
This was the first site Stephen and I developed from scratch together. It was a lyrics search engine.
Get Some Tabs | 19 | 2005
This was the second site Stephen and I developed from scratch together. It was a tablature search engine. We were forced to shut it down in 2006 due to a “DMCA violation”
Publisher Aid | 19 | 2005
This was the third site Stephen and I developed from scratch together. It was a web development tutorials, articles, and tips web site. We’d post lots of random useful advice for web publishers. It had the following categories: site strategy, promotion, generating revenue, hosting and developer tools.
Get Some Videos | 21 | 2007
This was the fourth site Stephen and I developed from scratch together. It was a music video search engine. We did not host any videos, just returned results from popular video sites like YouTube and MetaCafe.
Nowadays
These days I am working at MentorMate as a web marketing specialist, which is a software company based in Saint Paul, MN. I am currently working on the following two projects for MentorMate:
SpyderMate
SpyderMate is a free web-based SEO analysis tool. Just type in your web site’s URL and it will give you a good idea of how well your web marketing efforts are going.
TicketsFTW
TicketsFTW is a ticket comparison search engine. It reports all the most sought-after tickets for sale in the secondary ticket market and spits out the cheapest prices. There are no additional fees for using this service and it does not require registration to use.
In Summary
As you can see I have worked on a lot of web projects in a lot of different areas for the majority of my life. This is by no means a complete list of all the projects I have worked on. It is enjoyable to reminisce once in a while.
