About Me

18 August 2007 by Gareth in Technology

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Gareth
Well hello, I’m Gareth Boyd the owner of many blogs and the happy owner of JustGareth. I was brought up in a webmaster house, my brother David the designer extrodinare and oldest brother Andrew the all round guy. Unfortuantely my dad, mum and sister Sarah didn’t do webmastering. Everyone in the house either has their own laptop or computer, probably 98% use a extremely powerful Macintosh computer.

My life revolves around girls (a teens life basically), my iPod, weight lifting and making money. In my spare time I’m either on msn chilling with a glass/tin of Red Bull, weight lifting in my gym, listening my iPod on the way to a friends house or sitting around watching the 45″ flat screen tv. I like to buy sites and build them rather than making a site then building it from scratch, but trying to stop that as I waste too much $$. The forums I waste time on are Digital Point and Admin Fusion.

I am 14 years old coming 15 soon, I started webmastering from 8 years old. My brother Andrew introduced me to basic HTML on notepad on my eMachine computer (I no longer have). After copying and pasting tables I eventually knew how to write a HTML page all by myself. After learning basic HTML Andrew taught everything from earning money off a site to CSS.

Most of the time I have been on the internet I have partnered with many webmasters including Nigel Elliott, Taylor Hewitt and Matt Younger. Unfortuantely most of these partners faded after making a couple of sites. Matt Younger and I made a very popular forum called PD Owners until when we sold it and we made some other smaller sites, but most of our other projects were never as well made as PD Owners was.

I provide some services like Search Engine Optimization, Promotion and Marketing. There is a page on the blog where you can see the price ranges. There is some examples of my previous and current work, so you can see exactly what you’d be getting for your money. I have been Promoting websites as a job for 2 years and a bit, I’m sure if you ask any previous customers they are happy with what they got. Marketing I have only been doing 8 months with only 4 customers, but they were happy once the job was done. Search Engine Optimization I have been doing from day one of webmastering and have been getting a lot of attention due to it.

Some of my sites when I was younger…

GPTGuide dot com (no longer exists). My sister and I saved up to buy this forum which was paid to post, but probably the worst experience with making forums. Started off really good and fun maintaining but then figured out about all the problems the forum has been having.

Rads dot com (no longer exists). A site I had when I was in primary school, feel really stupid leaving it to die, but hey I was a kid. There was crap all on it too!

There are so many others, but I really can’t remember what they are because it was so long ago and the websites were so badly made!

As you can see I have been through so many websites, but one site I have for a while now and I will never get rid off because I like it so much! Global Surfing UK, I made it when I was in Primary seven and was going into High School, just when I became good at surfing. I started using Google AdSense and experimenting other ad services.