It’s been a little over a year since Cre8asiteforums rolled out a newly designed user interface, with new forums software, new server and the ability to accept advertising.

While still experimenting with ad placement (because our members loathe distractions), and charging very low monthly fees to a members’ first ad placement system, enough funds were generated in 2006 to achieve one our goals.

We wanted to help support education in the search engine marketing, user centered design and web design industries. Today, we’ve presented six possible ideas for where we would like to help sponsor a student. Members are voting now to select four choices from the list of six.

The four winning choices may opt for a check to apply to a known student in need or financial aid or create a scholarship with funds. Each of the four winning choices is awarded $400, as well as links and promotional activity generated from this endeavor.

In addition, if there is enough interest, we’re open to taking the names and choices of our members and using a lottery system, we will help them obtain their certification or classes.

It’s our first attempt at doing this and I expect it will be a learning experience. But we’re excited. The Cre8tive Community is a strong community, with supportive members who value education and especially, accurate information that can come from good training resources.

If you are a member, you can place your vote in Choose Your Favorite Educational Opportunity and make suggestions for how we can improve this effort to lend financial support to organizations, schools, companies with internships, online classes, certification, etc. in the web development area.