With the World Wide Web evolving pretty much daily, needy webmasters thirst for knowledge and answers regularly hit forums for with the problems and issues holding back progress. You may have noticed yourself when browsing for an issue which may have been plaguing your mind for hours that when you found your answer it was on a forum indexed by your favourite search engine.

Webmaster Forum Discussions

Interactions within webmaster forums can seem at times extremely diverse than others. A hosting forums’ threads range from problems with hosting, search engines, cascading style sheets and programming languages such as PHP, Java, Javascript, Pearl and ColdFusion. If you’re a dedicated webmaster, you will probably need to join several forums which focus on specific topics such as a PHP forum called “PHP Freaks” if you were looking at a PHP problem. Due to the extreme diversity in topics novice webmasters may find it difficult to even find the root of the problem they are experiencing, so it’s best to be careful and publish your post in the right thread or some of the stricter moderators will delete your post sometime without notice.

List of Webmaster Forums

Below you will find a list of online business forums sorted in no particular order. Be sure to visit and tinker with a few to get an idea of your ideal. Several of the popular forums may have been reviewed by us.

Adobe: Discussions – Flash player, Acrobat, Flash, Adobe Reader, Dreamweaver, LiveCycle, Photoshop, Photoshop elements, ColdFusion, Flex SDK and Flash builder, Acrobat connect pro, Photoshop lightroom, Mobile and device forums such as Adobe device central, Flash Cast, Flash hand-held, Flash Lite, Adobe eLearning, Animation tips and tricks, Color management, Design, PDF Workflow, Photography, Print design, Topography, Comments, Adobe Labs, Downloads, Adobe.com feedback, Adobe open source, Forum lounge, Adobe AIR marketplace beta, Developers exchanges, Dreamweaver extensions, Fireworks extensions, Flash extensions and also international forums for France, Japan, Spain and Germany.

Australian Webmaster: Discussions – Updates & announcements, Introductions, Feedback, Peer review, Webmaster industry news, Freebies, General site development, Design, Programming, Domaining and hosting, General site management, Making money, Marketing, SEO, Market stall, Link building, The lounge & Business.

CodingForums: Discussions – Javascript programming, HTML & CSS, XML, Flash & ActionScript, Graphics & multimedia discussions, General web building, Apache configuration, Pearl/CGI, PHP, MySQL, Ruby & Ruby on Rails, ASP, ASP.NET, Java and JSP, Other server side languages/issues, Computer programming, Computer/PC discussions, Geek news and humor, Web projects & Domains, sites, and design for sale.

Cre8asite: Discussions – Cre8tive tomorrow, Usability, access & mobile, Website hospital, Web design & holistic development, Web programming in CSS, style & positioning, Graphics & multimedia design, Cross-browser device assessment panel, Site planning, preparation & running a business, Writing copy and content for the web, Computer maintenance and security, Tech news and Lee’s SE newslets, Reputation management, SM & Biz ethics, Search engine optimization (SEO), Search marketing, marketing & promotion (SEM), Social media, blogs & social networking, Google, Yahoo! & all search engines, Monetizing your website & revenue applications, Forum ideas, Behind the posts, Cre8asite bog posts, Conscious, holistic web site development, Blogs, RSS and syndication, Cre8tive community announcements & jobs board, Other search engine discussion, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search listings, Running a business, Large-scale web directories, Tutorials & virtual learning, Internet law and ethics, Yahoo!, MSN search, Measuring your web site & finally Ask.com.

CSSChat: Discussions – Forum announcements, Rules, Web design, Graphics & animations, HTML & XHTML, CSS, Web 2.0, AJAX, Javascript & DOM, Accessibility & web standards, Programming, Link development, Search engine optimization, Marketing, Advertising, Pay per click advertising, Search engines, Introduce yourself, General chat & Forum feedback.

Forum For Webmasters: Discussions – Domain names, Web hosting, Web design, Web development, Website reviews, Internet marketing, Making money, Buy and sell websites & General.

GIDForums: Discussions – Web design forum, Website reviewed forum, Graphics forum, eCommerce/merchant accounts, C++, C Programming language, MS Visual C++/MFC, Java forum, .NET forum, Python forum, OpenGL programming, Assembly language, MySQL/PHP forums, Miscellaneous programming forum, Search engine optimization, AdSense, Web hosting, Web hosting advertisements & offers, Apache web server, Web host review forum, Computer hardware, Computer software (Windows), Computer software (Linux), Computer games software, Members, announcements, advertising & offers, New member introductions, Ope discussion forum, Sports, Music & GIDNetwork site info and feedback.

HTTPPoint: Discussions – News & announcements, Introductions, Suggestions & feedback, General discussion, Computer discussion & assistance, Interviews, Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Search engine optimization, Search engine UseNet, HTML development, MySQL, PHP developers corner, Business & the law, Marketing & promotion, Advertising sales & affiliate programs, Web hosting In’s and Out’s, the Marketplace, Link sales and requests & finally Other offers & requests.

Iranjava: Discussions – IranJava News, General discussion, IJ champion, YouTube video, VIP members general discussion, V.I.P Special, Web site URL & Weblog URL, Web links, Torrent link, Dynamic design, Static design, CMS sections, Graphic & multimedia, Sharing point, SEO techniques, Money maker, IJ private club, IranJava master mind group, Pool buy, SPA section, Tutorials & article, Article Javascript, Software, Invest programs, Security section, PC, PS2, XBOX, eBooks, Linux and other OS’s, Buy and sell & Art home.

Joomla!: Discussions – Announcements, General questions/new to Joomla, Installation, Administration, Migrating and upgrading, Security, Extensions, Templates, Search engine optimization (Joomla! SEO), Language, Performance, Joomla! 1.0, International language zones, Open source products for Joomla!, Joomla! events, Site showcase, The lounge, Registered Joomla! user groups, Trending topics, Joomla! 1.5 coding, Joomla! 1.0 coding, Bug reporting, Custom Joomla! development, Extensions.Joomla.org – feedback/information, Resources, Documentation, Sites and infrastructure, Community magazine & Working groups.

JoomlaWorks: Discussions – Welcome, JoomlaWorks product download system (PDS), Site showcase of Joomla! website using JoomlaWorks extensions, Translations & translated versions of JoomlaWorks extensions, Tutorials by JoomlaWorks and other expert users, Frontpage Slideshow (for Joomla!), Simple image gallery PRO (plugin), SuperBlogger (plugin), AJAX header rotator (module), AJAX vote, AllVideos (plugin), DISQUS comment system (plugin), K2, Simple image rotator (module), Simple RSS feed reader (module), Tabs & slides (plugin), Ultimate content display (UCD)(module) & Other free extensions produced by JoomlaWorks.

Open Web Design: Discussions – Announcements, General discussion, HTML/CSS/JS help, Upcoming designs & Off-topic conversations.

PHP Freaks: Discussions – Announcements, PHPFreaks.com questions, comments & suggestions, Introductions, Microsoft Q&A: Microsoft and open source, FAQ/code snippet repository, PHP coding help, PHP applications, Application frameworks, Other libraries and frameworks, Third party PHP scripts, MySQL help, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL – MsSQL, Other RDBMS and SQL dialects, HTML help, CSS help, Javascript help, AJAX help, Other client side stuff, PHP Install & configuration, Linux web server administration, Apache HTTP servers, Microsoft ISS, Other web server software, Application design, Other programming languages, Editor help (Dreamweaver, Zend, etc.), Website critique, Beta test you stuff!, Miscellaneous & PHP freelancing.

Hot Scripts: Discussions – Announcements, Polls, The lounge, New members & introductions, Script requests, Hot scripts forum questions, suggestions and feedback, General HotScripts discussion, Site bug report, HTML/XHTML,XML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash & ActionScript, PHP, Pearl, ASP, ASP.NET, C/C++, Visual Basic, Windows .NET programming, Everything Java, Other languages, Web servers, Database discussions, Other topics, General advertisements, Job offers & assistance, Traffic exchange, Website reviews, Web hosting talk & finally DB forums.

PromoJunkie: Discussions – The profitable webmaster, Business discussion, Search engines, Affiliate forums, Web hosting forums, Design and development, Graphics forums, Web programming, Content management, Webmaster classifieds, PromoJunkie forums, New member introductions, Showcase your website & General discussion.

SiteGround: Discussions – Forum guidelines, Customer’s experience and suggestions, SiteGround news, Technical innovations and improvements, Mambo and Joomla forum, Forums in general (PHPBB, SMF, vBulletin & IPB), Shopping carts, Galleries forum, PostNuke and phpNuke forum, SiteGround sitebuilder, Blogs & photoblogs forum, Customer relation management (CRM) sites, Other software and applications, Free Joomla templates, Free WordPress themes, VPS hosting forum, Advertising and site optimization, Ecommerce and business web hosting questions, Link exchange market, Reviews on customers’ websites, PHP forum, Other development topics & Off-topic conversations.

SitePoint: Discussions – News and announcements, Sitepoint.com development, Content for your site, Blogging, Content writing, Social networking and communities, Multimedia content, Designing your site, Just starting your design, Graphics, Flash and ActionScript, Web page design, Reviews and critiques, Program your site, PHP, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Java and JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby, Pearl, Python and other languages, Databases, XML and web services, General development issues, General application design and theory, Web security, Host your site, Web hosting, Review a host, Server management, Apache configuration, Domain names, Manage your site, Advertising sales & affiliate programs, Internet marketing, SEO, How to buy and sell a web site, Business and legal issues, eCommerce, Careers and education, Scripts and online services, Web development software, Community centre, Introductions, Industry news, General chat, Computer hardware and software, SitePoint marketplace, Premium sites for sale, established sites for sale, Turnkey sites for sale, Templates for sale, domain names for sale, Web hosting deals, Advertise your services, Content for sale, Looking to hire, Advertising space for sale, Want to buy, Link exchanges, Design contests, Name my thingy (Free!), SitePoint books, New releases, Feedback and reviews, Questions, SitePoint support and feedback, Editize support, Marketplace feedback & finally Forum support.

MySQL: Discussions – Announcements, Newbie, Install, Source, builds & binaries, Docs, Q&A, Sample database (Sakila), MySQL migration toolkit, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, Informix, PostgreSQL, Firebird, SQLite, Microsoft access, DBF, dBase, FoxPro, Clipper, xBASE, Other migration, MySQL monitor, MySQL query analyzer, MySQL proxy, Workbench for newbies, Database modeling, Database administration, SQL browser, editor, refactor, Schema compare, diff, synch, Source, builds & binaries, Plugins & scripts, MySQL query browser, MySQL administrator, Database design and data modeling, Reporting, charting and Bi 3rd party applications, ODBC, .NET, JDBC and Java, MySQL connector/C++, MySQL connector/C (libmysql), C#, Mono, Delphi, Python, Pearl, PHP, Ruby, XML, InnoDB, MyISAM, Federated storage engine, Archive storage engines, CSV storage, Merge storage engine, Custom storage engines, memcached, Virtualization systems, MySQL on Amazon EC2, Storage systems, Transactions, Table space, Foreign keys (Referential integrity), Constraints, Cursors, Views, Triggers, Events (Job scheduler), Storage procedures, UDF, Information schema, Character sets, collation & unicode, General, Embedded, Optimizer, Performance, High availability, Replication, Synchronization, Cluster, Partitioning, Data warehouse, Backup, Data recovery, Security, GIS, Full-text search, Licensing, Partners, Hosting, Certification, Jobs and other forums for international (other language) users.

Talk Mania: Discussions – Photoshop tutorials, Photoshop tutorials from Talk-mania members, WordPress themes/flash/dreamweaver/fireworks tutorials from Talkmania members, PHP/Pearl/Java/Javascript/CGI tutorials. Other how to’s, Freelance work, VIP download area, Premium WordPress themes, website review, Website design, Programming/scripting/coding, Flash and ActionScript, Web hosting, FOR SALE: Domain names/web hosting/websites and services (Offers only), WANTED: Domain names/web hosting/website services, Google, Yahoo!, Search engine promotion, News and announcements, Suggestions and feedback, General discussions, Introductions, Product reviews, Articles, SEO, Internet marketing discussion, Webmaster revenue.

Themers Club: Discussions – Rules, Forum announcements, Member introductions, Links, Video games zone, Health – fitness – nutrition and dieting – Sport area, The automotive section, Anime & manga, Travel & tourism, e-Books, Photos & pictures, Mobile phones talk, Mobile themes share & downloads, Solutions centre, Mobiles related software, Forums templates and skins, Blogs & CMS, File hosting and image hosting skins, Directories templates, Search engines, Marketing, Pay per click advertising, Affiliate programs, Web hosting forum, Domain name forum, Webmaster talk, Web design and content, Scripts and tools, Computer & Internet discussions, Software & freeware apps, Customizing Windows, Windows XP & Vista support, Premium zone requests, premium section, Banned members & The trash zone.

TriPHP: Discussions – Introductions, General webmaster discussion, Web hosting forum, Domaining forum, Computer, SEO forum, General marketing, Business forums, Search engines, Programming, Graphics and design, Web directories & Forum development.

UK Webmaster World: Discussions – General webmaster talk, General search engine discussions, Generating revenue from your site, Directories, Web host chat UK, Domains and websites for sale, The exchange, Marketplace (all other buy/sell/wanted), Web hosting, Help and tutorials for new webmasters, Programming, Web design web graphics, e-Commerce, Business forum, Computer and software forum, New member introductions, Community fun area, About UK webmaster forums & Off-topic conversations.

V7 Network: Discussions – Getting started with V7N, Forum lobby, Tech talk, The webmaster marketplace, Looking to hire, Online business forum, Internet legals and other issues, Google forum, SEO forum, Marketing forum, Writing for the web, Social network marketing, Affiliate marketing forum, Webmaster revenue, Web directory issues, Blogging forum, Blog promotion, Coding forum, Web design lobby, Forum management, Graphic design forum, Digital photography forum, Web hosting forums, Domains forum, V7N forum support, V7N affiliate support.

WebDevForums: Discussions – Please read before posting, Web design, CSS and HTML references, Client & server side scripting (PHP, ASP & JavaScript), Graphic design, Tutorials, Website design reviews, Search engine optimization and marketing, Freelancing, Web hosts and domain names, Monetizing websites, The lounge, General questions, Web Dev Forums news and announcements & Site Suggestions.

WebDeveloper: Discussions – HTML, XML, CSS, Graphics, Javascript, Multimedia, Web video, Dreamweaver/Expression web, General, ASP, Pearl, PHP, .NET, Java, SQL & other, Business matters, Website reviews, Domains, Forum, Blog, Wiki’s & CMS, Search Engines, Computer issues, Feedback, The coffee lounge.

WebDigity: Discussions – HumanWorks network news & feedback, Forum contests, Forum lounge, User forums, General webmaster discussions, Graphic & multimedia, Web page design, Website & Graphic reviews, PHP, Javascript, Databases, Security, Miscellaneous languages, Hosting companies, Domain names, Configuring your server, General business, CPC programs, CPM programs, Affiliate programs & other revenue models, Promotion techniques, Search engine optimization, Promoting & building a forum, Advertise your services, Sell your site, Sell a domain name, Request services, Hire people, Link trading requests.

Web Juniors: Discussions – Websites, Domains, Link sales, Scripts, Services, Content, Freebies, General marketing, Pay per click advertising, PPC programs, Affiliate marketing, Link exchange, Online business, Website design, Web programming, Online communities, Domains in general, Latest news & announcements, Introduce yourself, Feedback & suggestions, Members area, SEO, Google (1996), Yahoo search engine (1994), MSN (1995), All other search engines, Directories, General discussions, Junior success stories & finally a Spam forum.

WebmasterMalaysia: Discussions – Member introductions, News and announcements, Feedback & suggestions, Mamak Stall, Website design, Graphic design, Website programming, E-Commerce, Webmaster tools, Website review and suggestion, Search engine marketing, Social marketing, email marketing, affiliate marketing, Other Online marketing methods, Revenue and monetization, Blogging discussion, Online community building, Showcase, Free hosting discussion forum, Domains, Paid hosting discussion forum, Freelance marketplace, Site, domain and links marketplace, Web hosting offers, Job vacancies, Other webmaster related services and promotion.

Webmaster Serve: Discussions – General webmaster discussions, UK webmaster forums, Webmaster marketplace, Search engine marketing, Directories, Business forum, Marketing forum, Webmaster forum, Programming, Web design, Web hosting, Domains, UK business forums, Online business discussions, eCommerce, Website programming discussion, Photography, Visual design, Website showcase, Computers, Forum lobby, Suggestions and feedback, The webmaster community, Racing games, Strategy, RPG, MMORPG’s, Games console, First/third person shooters.

Website Publisher: Discussions – HTML, CSS, layout and design, Graphics & multimedia, Website programming & databases, General promotion, Search engine optimization, Advertising & affiliate programs, Ecommerce, General management issues, Domain name forums, Web hosting & servers, Community management, Business and legal issues, Reviews, Recent blogs, Internet industry news, The marketplace, General chat, Introductions & finally Site and forum feedback.

Web Talk Forums: Discussions – Announcements, Contests, Webmaster lunge, Search engine marketing and promotion, Site design and content, For sale, Wanted, Premium member deals, Free resources & the Forum lounge.

Web Wiz: Discussions – Version 9.x support, Version 8.x support, Version 7.x support, NewsPad, CAPTCHA, Rich text editor (RTE), Network status and announcements, Hosting services and Pre-Sales questions, Hosting support forums, General discussion, ASP discussion, ASP.NET discussion, Database Discussion, Web design discussion, Suggestions for Web Wiz, Show off your Web Wiz application and Testing area forums

Webmaster Forums: Discussions – Online backup, HTML & CSS, Site design and web authoring, Web site design reviews, Domain name, registrars, becoming reseller, Web hosting, dedicated servers and reseller hosting, Search engine optimization & site promotion, PHP development, Database – MySQL, SQL, Oracle, Access and others, Other programming – Pearl, C++, Java, ASP, .NET development, Buy and sell computer hardware/software, Buy and sell domains & already developed sites, Buy and sell Ad-space, Making money on the web, Wanted, Advertise or request, Linux talk, Technical, Web/security, Programming/scripts, Windows talk, Windows technical, Windows web/security, Just chat, Computers, servers & peripherals, Software discussion & New member introductions.

WebmasterGround: Discussions – New member introductions, General discussions, Web design, Programming, Graphic design, Scripts and content management, Web & server administration, SEO, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Other search engine & PPC services, General marketing & promotion, Link development, Web directories, General business, Running your website, Affiliate marketing, Website hosting, Payment processing, Domaining, Legal issues, Website & domain sale, Link exchange & sales, Web design & programming requests, Contests, Other services, Suggestions & feedback & announcements.

Webmaster-Talk: Discussions – HTML forum, CSS forum, PHP forum, ASP forum, JavaScript forum, Coding forum, Website design forum, Website review and suggestions, Graphics forum, Web hosting forum, Domain name forum, The database forum, Website and server administration forum, Computer forum, The Google forum, The other search engines, Web directories, Blogging forum, SEO talk forum, Internet marketing and advertising forum, Ecommerce and general business forum, Online communities, Content & writing, Submit to my directory, Affiliate programs forum, Monetization, Real life stories and inspiration, The Webmaster-Talk.com marketplace, Graphic design contests, Old marketplace forums archives, General discussions, New member introductions, News and announcements & Suggestions and feedback.

WebmasterWorld: Discussions – Browser side world, HTML and browsers, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, Flash and Shockwave, XML development, Site graphics and multimedia design, RSS, ATOM and related technologies, Opera browser usage and support, FireFox browser usage and support, Analytics tracking and logging, Content writing and copyright, Webmaster general, Pearl server side CGI scripting, WYSIWYG and text code editors, PHP server side scripting, Ecommerce, Apache web server, New to web development, Domain names, Professional webmaster business issues, Smartphone wireless and mobile technologies, The Macintosh webmaster, Website technology issues, Community building and user generated content, Webmaster hardware, Linux, Unix and *nix like operating systems, Database, Accessibility and usability, Content management, Web video creation and optimization, Yahoo world, Yahoo search engine and directory, Yahoo! publisher contextual advertising network, Yahoo search marketing PPC advertising, Deprecated – Altavista and Alltheweb.com, Yahoo corporate, Link development, Cloaking, Keyword discussion, SEM research topics, General search engine marketing issues, Deprecated search engine submissions, Paid inclusion and topics, Advertising sales and affiliates programs, PPC engines, Microsoft IIS web server and ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows OS usage NT – XP & Vista, MSN/Microsoft AdCenter, Bing search news, Microsoft corporate, Microsoft windows 7 operating system, Google SEO news and discussions, Google news archive, Google desktop tools and Google projects, Google finance – government – govt – policy and business issues, Google AdWords, Google AdSense, Google merchant center, Gmail advertising, Sitemaps – meta data and robots.txt, Ask – Teoma, Alternative search engines, directories, European search engines, UK & Ireland search engines, Asia and Pacific region, Search engine spider and user agent identification, Local search, Latin and South American search engines, Webmaster community center, Commercial exchange & finally Foo.

WMStalk: Discussions – Announcement, Introductions, General chat, Mailinglist, Reviews, Suggestions & feedback, Feed zone, Latest updates, VIP:WMStalk, Dark:lounge, Corrupted/packets, Mafia.business, Everything else, General business, Payment processing, Legal issues, Domain names, Web hosting, Buy – sell or trade, General marketing, SEO, Link development, Pay-Per-Click advertising, Affiliate programs, Offline marketing, HTML & website design, Graphics & multimedia, Content management, Programming, Site & server administration, Databases, General discussions & announcements, Sales & support team & Higher level & management forums.

WordPress Support: Discussions – Installation (Problems with getting it running), How-To and troubleshooting (Once it’s running), Themes and templates (XHTML and CSS), Plugins and hacks (Extensions and modifications), WP-Advanced (Beyond codex questions), Your WordPress (Strut your stuff), Miscellaneous (Almost everything else), Requests and feedback (Feature requests; criticism) & finally Alpha/Beta (Discussion of development versions only).

XNA: Discussions – FAQs, Team positions/services – wanted and/or offered, Game design, Game algorithms, Game publishing/business, Artist’s corner, General, XNA framework, XNA framework content pipeline, Audio/XACT, Education roadmap (Samples, starter kits & tutorials), Networking, Dream-Build-Play, DirectX & Direct3D, Direct3D 10, Direct 3D 11, SunBurn, Other partners, Developer talk series (Academic corner).

XtremeVBTalk: Discussions – Announcements, .NET knowledge base, ASP.Net, .NET communications, .NET game programming, .NET office automation, .NET file I/O (Input/output) and registry, .NET database and reporting, .NET interface and graphics, .NET installation/documentation, .NET general discussions, Xtreme .NET talk, Legacy visual basic knowledge base, Communications, Game programming, VBA/office integration, API (Application programming interface), File I/O and registry, Database reporting, Interface and graphics, Installation/documentation, Web programming, Miscellaneous programming languages Tech discussions, Random thoughts & last but not least Forum questions/concerns/comments.