Hi everyone,

I am relatively new to this forum but I have question for you all.

I am in the web development business and am building my business by focusing on offering my services to individuals and companies in the San Diego area. All well and good.

But...my eventual goal (perhaps sooner rather than later) is to break out into offering my services to those that might want to use my skills over the Internet at large.

Toward that end I have been thinking that it might be good for me to offer something of value to those forums that I am member of including this one...as a way of getting who I am and the services I offer before more individuals that might have a need for them.

So I am wondering if there might be an interest here in either getting some GIMP tutorials worked up by me and offered here for creating web graphics, maybe a course in basic PHP programming for non-programmers, or other such a thing?

I am not sure how something like that would be worked out in practice in that I would probably want to base such things at my site and not just upload them to this forum but I am flexible on this. It's been my experience that such things are picked up by the search engines much quicker off something like a forum as opposed to my own web site so maybe it would be good to upload the gist of such things to this forum as stickies or something instead of having them based at my site. I don't know.

Viral courses maybe. Lot's of possibilities.

So I guess a more fundamental question for me is...how can I get my name and what I do out before more people on this forum for example while also offering real value to forum members?

I am open to ideas if anyone has any?

I do see some fantastic potential to increase my business while offering great value to social sites like forums where I am allowed to do such.

Carlos