where we come from? this is the internet. we come from all over the world. I am from Singapore. It is quite near Vietnam.

How can you know each other? Who makes/ creates this website? I think it's Mitch (because he can move the topics... but do the other admins have this ability?)

I've been involved in the informal chemical education community (which is just a term I made up to describe internet chemistry bboards, websites, etc...) for several years now. Other communities were nice, but there didn't seem to be a good home for Chemists who like answering questions. I knew I could do it better, and with the help of tech savvy people like David we made this website.

The staff is chosen from people who are knowledgeable, write good answers to questions, activity, and also by personality. I've also been known to track talented posters from other internet Chemistry forums and bring them here. I don't know all of the Staff personally, but I've met a few of them in real life at some point..

As Borek said, all the administrators have the same privileges, and moderators have administrative privileges in the subforum they moderate for. The only difference between the other staff and I, is that I pay the bills, so you'll see my name at the bottom of the website.

Mitch actually stole me from the www.webelements.com forums.  I was putting together my element collection and had gotten pretty far along with it when he asked me to write some articles.  I then began photographing my elements when people kept asking to see them, and also when the periodic table here at the site started getting more and more complex.  I came over to this website very early in the development and have done my best to try and keep things clean here.  Eventually, Mitch handed over some administrator privilages so that the periodic table and download updates could be handled a bit easier without him having to do everything for me.  Now, I just come and go and clean up the random pigeon poop that drops in here sometimes.  During the summer months, it tends to slow down a bit as school is out, but in the next couple of months things will pick up again.  Hopefully I'll have more free time at that point.  Right now, I'm still anticipating the textbook coming out with my element photos in it, and I'm also trying to figure out some more permanent storage methods for many of my elements which have begun to oxidize over the past few years.

yeah... I hope I can be one of the members of the staff here someday  

Mark Winter is the admin for webelements not Jdurg.

Yes, we all know of eachother.

yeah Okay! I hope your element photos will exists in the textbook. It's great.


Well, why don't you tell me about the history of the website?