SitePoint
| File:SitePoint logo.png | |
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founder | Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Books, courses, websites |
| Subsidiaries | Flippa, Learnable |
| Website | www.sitepoint.com |
SitePoint is a Melbourne, Australia-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. In January 2014, SitePoint.com had an Alexa ranking of 889,[1] and a Quantcast rating of 14,934.[2]
History
SitePoint was founded by Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle in 1999.[3] The company had its origins in Webmaster-Resources.com, an internet forum Mickiewicz founded as a resource for beginner web developers.[4][5]
Originally, the company's business model was based on selling advertising and sponsorship. Following the collapse of the Dot-com bubble in 2000, the company looked towards publishing as an alternative source of income.[4] The company's first book, Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL, was published that November, based on a popular online tutorial.[6] Originally made available using print on demand, the book went on to sell 20,000 copies.[4] By 2004, the company had published six books, and began distribution through O'Reilly.[7]
The SitePoint Marketplace, a spinoff from the site's existing forums, was launched in 2005 as a forum in which web designers and developers could outsource projects. In 2007, part of the marketplace was spun off as 99designs, an online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design.[8] In 2011, 99designs received its first outside investment in the form of $35 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners.[9]
Another SitePoint spinoff, Flippa launched in 2009 as a dedicated marketplace for buying and selling websites and domain names.[10][11][12]
Following the introduction of its own courses, the company launched Learnable in 2010 as a new online learning platform for web developers.[13] Originally designed as a marketplace, it is now the primary outlet for SitePoint's online book and course products.[14]
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