Stating the Obvious: We’ve started a blog!
After a pretty short discussion we (which refers to the other vForums Support Mods & I) agreed that a blog could be a good addition to the website. We’re hoping it’ll enable us to give users a better insight into what we do, both on vforums and elsewhere. Hopefully you’ll be seeing some posts from the others from time to time, as lets face it, who wants to read me ramble on all the time 
Thinking of which, maybe I should introduce myself & my history for those who are new to vForums. I first got seriously interested in web development when I was 16, I was writing a lot of Javascript mods for existing remotely hosted software at the time. Unfortunately (or I suppose this should be “fortunately”) this didn’t fulfil my hunger for knowledge, and I started to learn PHP with MySql. I started to make a few pieces of software with this new knowledge to help expand my experience, this ranged from hit-counters to image randomizers and eventually to a guest book.
12 months down the line I had finished my A-Levels and I was looking for a career to move into, the career I felt best suited me would be one in web development. Unfortunately most web development companies don’t like taking on people who haven’t already got experience and a strong portfolio, so I l knew what I had to do.
Since it’s original creation my guest book script had undergone some major improvements and core changes, it was now a message board. I spent a lot of free time over the following months improving the software. I have a feeling that having that software listed on my portfolio was a big influence in securing me the web developer job which I’ve been doing since September 2007. It was because of the positive comments I received from my colleagues that I decided that vForums could be a worthwhile business, it was then in November 2007 that virtualforums.co.uk received its first sign-up.
Since it’s primitive start the software has undergone many changes and has grown massively, larger than I would have thought possible 12 months ago. Lets just hope vForums continues to grow and thrive! I think that’s all to say at the moment, apart from I’m sorry for anyone who got bored in all that, I have a terrible tendency to get carried away. If anyone has any other questions about the company or me then you can post a comment, although I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to answer all questions 
July 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
It is hard to believe I seen Virtual Forums back in the year 2007 (December). I registered soon after in January, then making a test board. My first thoughts were that I was amazed. Several of the other forum providers I seen had many suggestions I felt were awesome and disappointed I had to use Javascript or curse under my breath trying to install the PHP, PERL, or Python addons.
Virtual Forums was the first message board I seen by default to have most of the features I ever wanted, used, or tried to install by default. There are some things I find confusing as hell, some things I wonder why it is that way when I’m so used to or prefer another way. But, it is a perfect tradeoff for the greater amount of features I have seen that Virtual Forums has and has to offer. Some of the features that Virtual Forums offers I never even thought about or heard anyone talk about and I stand amazed.
Great flexibility, strong central staff members, a reliable server. This is the first software I have seen to offer all of these and for the greater part of eight months not fall apart and continue to thrive. Now, I have to say congratulations and I hope to be around for the future. :].