and mark harbottle headquarters melbourne australia area served 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 edit 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your own database driven website using php and mysql was published that november based on a popular online tutorial . 6 originally made available using print on demand the book went on to sell 20 000 copies . 4 by 2004 the company had published six books and began distribution through o reilly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 references edit sitepoint.com site info alexa . retrieved 2010 08 25 . sitepoint.com quantast audience profile . retrieved 2014 01 22 . smartcompany interview with mark harbottle . retrieved 2010 08 25 . a b c o toole jared september 7 2010 . matt mickiewicz on creating some of the most popular websites in the world . under 30 ceo . retrieved 5 march 2014 . falconer joel april 17 2011 . how sitepoint succeeded selling online content when news corp couldn t . the next web . retrieved 13 march 2014 . yank kevin november 27 2001 . build your own database driven website using php & mysql . zend . retrieved 5 march 2014 . o reilly to distribute sitepoint web development books . retrieved 5 march 2014 . dubois louis june 27 2011 . matt mickiewicz co founder of 99designs . inc. retrieved 5 march 2014 . lacy sarah april 28 2011 . accel invests 35m . in 99designs ... after years of trying . techcrunch . retrieved 5 march 2014 . moulton luke june 23 2010 . flippa.com a year in the life of a start up . flippa blog . retrieved 5 march 2014 . bhattarai abha july 29 2008 . find an undervalued asset . fix it up . flip it . now it s web sites not houses . new york times . retrieved 2009 01 31 . norman jan august 9 2008 . o.c. teen sells zune web site for 62 000 . oc register . retrieved 2009 01 31 . tilley shayne october 28 2010 . want to teach your own course we re here to help ... . sitepoint . retrieved 5 march 2014 . kessler sarah march 15 2011 . get paid to teach anything with new online education platform . mashable . retrieved 5 march 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sitepoint & oldid 705007258 categories book publishing companies of australia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2016 at 23 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view