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Webmaster forums, a.k.a. web design groups, message boards, and bulletin boards, are communities of web designers and marketers helping each other, networking, and getting noticed in the process. You can ask and read questions about everything related to web design, hosting, internet marketing, ecommerce, business, and more.

Three primary functions of the forums are learning, educating, and marketing. Any master online marketer will tell you THE BIG DEALS HAPPEN HERE. being active in the major marketing forums is a great way to get known. It's also free advertising!

Everyone's got something to sell, be it their own product, or someone else's. Most forums will not tolerate unsolicited commercial messages, better known as spam. Study each forum, and get to know their guidelines before you post. As a general rule, do not just make pitches, unless that's what the forum is about. Most forum posts need to have substance. Answer someone's question. Be helpful, and generous with your time. Let your sig file do your promoting for you in the forums.

The web design, marketing, and hosting forums listed below, are in no particular order. They were chosen based on popularity or ranking. Some forums of large portals, such as CNET Message Boards, or Google Groups will link to all categories, or a root catagory of "computers" or "internet".
The idea here was to make general computer or other internet help groups available as well. Web design is usually only a click ot two away from these general help areas.

Now on to the forums...

CNET Message Boards Major powerhouse. For those who don't know, CNET owns news.com, download.com, computers.com, search.com, and many others. They are a high tech company geared toward everything computer and internet related. CNET Message Boards could be considered a virtual encyclopedia for computer users. They cover a wide variety of topics, from general computer help, to web design, and much more. To get the most of your searches in CNET, first select the Message Board you feel is most appropriate for what you're looking for, then use the search box from that page. Very Important: You MUST select that forum again in the pull down menu under the search box, otherwise you'll be searching all of the forums.

The Warrior Forum Power marketers frequent AND moderate this 30,000 member forum. It's very active, and a great place to learn, and gain exposure. You are free to browse, but must register to post. The Warrior Group is a private marketing association with members world wide. The group is responsible for many of the most popular marketing strategies on the Internet today. The Warrior Forum is without a doubt the #1 marketing forum on the Internet. None come close to it. Everything you can ask can be answered in this forum and the contacts you can make are incredible. Some of the biggest names on the Internet are members, people like: Jonathan Mizel, Carl Galetti, Mark Joyner, Anthony Blake, Ken Varga, Paul Hartunian and many more.

Ablake.net/forum Entrepreneurial Success Forum - This is a very active marketing forum used by some of the net's heavy hitters. Learn and be seen here.

SitePointForums.com Site Point is a highly respected source for web designers and IT professionals. Great resource. Big community.

Internet.com/forums Like CNET, Internet.com is a powerhouse online, with many many properties such as webdeveloper.com, earthweb.com, javascript.com, htmlgoodies.com, and codeguru.com, to name a few. Lots of great forums here.

Groups.Google.com Everybody loves Google.

Groups.Aol.com AOL Computer Groups - these groups have surprisingly few members. I guess AOL members aren't into the "group" thing. To be fair, I will mention that these are forums available to all web users. AOL members have exclusive forums as well.

Groups.Msn.com Web Design Groups - MSN - you know 'em. This one is huge. *Note: Padlock icon next to a group requires a .NET Passport membership.

Web.Icq.com Thriving community of webmasters and chat pals. ICQ boasts more than 20,000,000 members. An AOL property.

Messages.Yahoo.com It's Yahoo. Need I say more?

Bravenet.com General (Computer) Help - Bravenet.com boasts 4,000,000 members and provides a plethora of free webmaster tools to it's thriving community.

Bravenet.com Html help

Bravenet.com Web Design Help

HostSpot.com Webhosting Forum

HostHideOut.com Webhosting Forum

AbestWeb.com Affiliate Marketing Forum

ClickBankForum.com As the name implies, this forum is dedicated to people who use clickbank for their merchant solution.

Below are more general webmaster forums. Still some major players, but how many descriptions can you give about a webmaster forum anyway? :-)