It's widespread knowledge that forums, bulletin boards and news groups are the backbone of the internet.  But it's the sheer volume of forums that often prevent webmasters from finding relevant groups where they can share their expertise and their problems.

 

Get started with a few below, and remember to mail us with any you've found which are good.

Hits4Me Webmaster Power Tools: Free tools that can be incorporated into a web site (absolutely no programming required) - guest books, search engines, top 50s, polls and more.

UK Affiliate Marketing Forum  Excellent forum discussing all things affiliate related in the UK with general tips on web site promotion etc that are internationally useful.

Webmasterworld  News and discussion for the independent web professional.

V Bulletin vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site. Based on the PHP language, backed with a blisteringly fast MySQL back-end database, vBulletin is the ideal community solution for all medium-to-large sites.