Hi everyone. vangogh here

[Steve B]

Naturally I'm a strong supporter on complimenting any of the Steve's - I was just referring to my blatent promotion of Vangogh's business.

I hope he gets quite a few inquiries from people wanting to pay him to help them with their website.

[vangogh]

Funny Steve. It's a good name don't you think?

And thanks for the compliments for my business. I never have a problem taking on new clients.

[cbscreative]

And if I lose business to vangogh, that's fine too because I know they will be well taken care of. It's not many competitors I can say that about.

[vangogh]

You know even though we offer similar services I never really see us in competition. I think we both do a good job and have different strengths even if some of our strengths overlap. I also think there's enough work to go around.

[cbscreative]

I agree, I use the term competition loosely, and there is so much work to go around there is room for many more "competitors."

[Paul Elliott]

Thank you, Steve/s, et al., for undertaking this venture. The Phoenix will rise from the ashes!

I guess there's no way to contact other members from the dotCOM version, if you don't have the address files.

Michael Shemwell notified me for which I'm thankful.

Glad to be back!

I've posted my REintroduction.

Paul

[cbscreative]

That's exactly how the word spreads, and we're very pleased more SBF members (and others) are finding out about us and telling others. We knew this community was needed, we're just glad we could do it.

[Spider]

Well, they caught up with you, VG - you have been banned from .com. Was only to be expected, really, and I'm sure you are not too fazed by it. I also noticed some major changes to the front page and forum layout. They reduced their forum count to 13.

[vangogh]

I noticed a little while ago. It's a bit vindictive, but it's not like I was planning on spending time there anymore and I guess it was to be expected. If they had been paying attention to their forum the last few months and not letting it decline we'd all still be there.

If us starting here gets them to put more time and effort into the old forum it's a good thing. I know there will be a lot of members from there who won't ever find their way here and at least those people will still have a place to hangout. No reason both forums can't grow and be successful.

It's a shame, though that the it took us starting here to get them to finally fix a few things that should have been done weeks ago. But I'll wish them well.

[cbscreative]

We were wondering if someone would bring up the banning. It is a shame what they did to let the forum suffer from neglect. Banning vangogh was childish IMO, but not surprising. Our success here has helped to prove that everyone pretty much felt the same way. Maybe they will learn from this, we hope so, but they lost all of us in the process.