WeldingWeb.com now a part of Gases & Welding Distributor

Penton Media acquired Weld-ingWeb.com (www.weldingweb.com), an online community and discussion forum, and that Internet site now is integrated with Gases & Welding Distributor's Weld-ingdesign.com (www.weldingdesign.com) site.

The WeldingWeb.com web site includes has more than 7,000 regis-tered members who make up a strong and active community focused on welding, and who act as a live community. The combined knowledge of those registered members add advice on welding problems, market interaction and social interaction to the extensive technical and product information available on the Weldingdesign.com site.

The site has something for just about anyone, from welding shop owners and the serious professional welder to the hobbyist. And, if you just want to socialize with like-minded people, you can get on and post messages as long as you can avoid carpal tunnel syndrome.

"Purchasing this web site and making it a part of the package that offered is one more step Gases & Welding Distributor is taking to provide friction-free dialogue for the entire welding community through a variety of methods," says Bruce Vernyi, editor-in-chief of Gases & Welding Distributor.

"With the addition of the website, we now offer a full range of content in addition to the community content generated by the site's members.

"Our magazine and the information we provide in print will be more visible and, through the affiliation with the magazine, we will be able to attract new members to the on-line community and further enhance its status as the leading on-line community for welding professionals.

"We are delivering ways to get new and important information about our industry to you, to keep our community strong and growing," Vernyi says.