Well, That’s me!! xD It took me quite a lot days to complete this article.

This post is my story till date on internet. I won’t mention everything but I’ll write about people, experiences, articles and everything that have influenced me. This is the first time I’ll write about myself except the “About US” page on the divyun.com.

Well, I have been into the webmastering thing from past three years now. At first I did not devote much time to this. It was like once in a two weeks. I started doing a few experiments and started creating silly sites using MS FrontPage! A little research and I knew what hosting was and how to use a free hosting account to host your site.

My interest started increasing. And by the end of the year, I  knew how to set up sites on sub-domains of hosts. Second year started with me searching about the best free host and a place where I could get a free domains. I still did not use my computer daily!! I was in 10th std and too much computer would spoil my studies. I continued my research when I finally came across a few sites like http://co.cc, http://uni.cc, http://dot.tk, http://net.ms, etc. I was to much into aliens that time. I had booked all the domain names- alienfriends.co.cc, uni.cc, etc. Some of them might still be there!!

By the start of 2008, I am through with the technical knowledge. I knew what was DNS, hosting, domains, etc. I could set up anything. But still, I was only with a silly html site. ..err.. Then came my exams and my internet usage became negligible!!

As soon my exams ended, I was on to my computer and within a few days, I became a computer freak. It was only me and my computer- day or night! 16+ hours computer every day. When did I sleep?? Don’t ask!! During this time, I had great experience, made new friends which I am usually accustomed to. Then, I came across Guru Lakshman Tomandro, the main brains after hyperwebenable.com, a site I promoted for him long time ago!! We parted ways due to some reasons.

Around March, I came across hostbidder.com. The site provides free domains and is a wonderful webmaster forum. I have spent hours on the site and learnt quite a lot of things.

I started out with my blog( yeah! this one=> http://divyun.com) during May. That day, I started learning for real!! I came across things called CMS and have messed up with most of the top ones, like Drupal, Joomla, e107, etc. Forums(MyBB, vBulletin, SMF, phpBB, etc.), social networking scripts(elgg, buddypress, people aggregator, etc.) blogs(wordpress, bloggers, moodle, etc.)! I am left with nothing as far as I know!! :S I can install any software(wordpress, joomla,etc.) and config it as well.

I am good enough at the SEO too, I have read quite a lot about it in e-books!!

I had another blog at aliengang domains but later shifted it to Divyun.com.

During all these months, I destroyed, created a lot of sites! A list:

1. Mahajansons.com

2. Aliengang.com

3. Aliengang.net

4. FutureIITians.com

5. Divyun.com

6. Webmasteropia.com

I also worked on a few sites as an admin to help a friend, webphorum.com.

A few people who influenced me:

1. Swastik: Well, I worked with the guy on webphorum.com and we are currently working on webmasteropia.com together!!

He’s a year older to me i.e. 16. We both study in 11std and live in India.

He’s quite an impressive guy! I would say he has great marketing skills and is great at the SEO thing! His blog at splitstack.com is a delite for young entrepreneurs. The Selling Machine- this is the title I gave him ’cause he has sold more than a dozen sites, I suppose.

2. Hector Oma- I won’t lie, but this guy inspires me to blog! He blogs at Rauru.com and is great friend. His blog is a paradise for webmasters/to be specific bloggers!! He was at wephorum with us.

I have other friends but only the above two were worth mentioning!

Some “pain in the but”-

You think I’ll mention them? But I have quite a lot of them!!

btw, the title states it right, I have done no professional course but I learnt evreything on my own. I am a SELF PROCLAIMED WEBMASTER. A detailed story of my experince would take more than 70 pages but I’ll finish in 700+ words.

If you want to be a webmaster, there are few things you got to know before hand. Webmaster has to manage between quite a lot things which help to him to manage the site!!  This article is about “What’s important to a webmaster and why??”"

Below, I’ll try to list all the important things for a webmaster!! So here it goes

1. Time

Time is the most important thing for a webmaster. Webmasters who lack in time usually end up in quiting but yeah!! some idiots like me do continue and end up in creating a hotch potch!! lol xD.

From my exprience:

I am a 15 year old blogger who is currently in Class XIth which is one of the most important years for you as a student. Its pretty hard for me to come online an post daily. So what’s the result:-

It took me more than 5 months to reach to this position. And my position is that I can’t concentrate on SEO, promotion or looks.

Conclusion:

If have time by your side, you surely will do better than me and maybe faster.

2. An internet connection

Believe it or not, but you need fast, “a no trouble” internet connection.

From my experience:

Once, a few months ago, my internet connection broke down and stopped working one day! My site was new and needed my attention, but unfortunately, I couldn’t update my site for around a month!! and I had to end up getting a new connection.

Conclusion:

A fast internet connection is a must and an asset for a webmaster.

3. Skills

Well, you should how to use your computer and internet. It should be difficult for total newbie to manage. So I would suggest you to play with your computer and internet until/unless you know quite a lot. Once you reach the saturation point, you’ll know it yourself.

4. A good social background

Knowing a lot of people helps a lot. If you are good at asking people to visit your site, it should be enough for you to get started.

From my experience:

I know a quite a lot people, but I am not good at asking them to comment or at least visit my site. I have been trying my best to get a little social.

Conclusion

Interact with more and more people which will help you create a traffic base for your site.

5. Principal amount

You need something to get started or you’ll end up trying hard to earn that principal amount in vain.

From my experience:

I started without any money. So I wasted a lot of time in getting the starters. If you don’t have money, then you need time in exchange.

Hope the article was pleasing. Please do consider commenting.

Few days ago, I got a news from host that they are gonna die on 13 th January!! So I had to arrange for a new host. I asked a friend for help, you provided me with hosting.

Now, divyun.com will be faster and better.

You might consider visiting his site! The link is http://emarketinghub.net/

I am happy to anounce the launch of webmasteropia.com. Its my first webmaster forum, though I have worked on a couple of them earlier.

Here is the link:

http://webmasteropia.com

I have discontinued the idea of writing webmastering tutorials on this blog. I’ll write an ebook instead.

I will not delete the posts I have made till now.

http://divyun.com/getting-started-with-websites-introduction/ and http://divyun.com/getting-started-chapter-1-the-basicspart-1/

Chapter 1- Part1 is a sample chapter.

Ladies and Gentlemen, are you ready to listen(read) to the disaster which happened to a webmaster.

I am posting after a couple of days and this is due to some odd things happening to me. Well, I was in the big trouble. I lost my ubuntu partition while resizing it. I lost a lot of data which included the file with passwords to sites. I still don’t have my cpanel’s password but have requested a new one. I had also lost divyun.com’s password but subsequently found it in a draft in my mail box, today. And that’s why I am able to blog today.

So I lost more than 40 GB of my files and I am having bad days. And this is not it. click here to read futher. =>http://divyun.com/oddworldofmine/my-life-has-become-hell-due-to

Well i am back and i have remade the blog. I was unhappy with the progress of my previous blog. I’ll try to update it every now and then.