Newbie here - questions

Excited to be here and having worked with powerful and expensive LASERs in my work, I am interested in experimenting with home built LASERS.

Questions:
Is this still an active forum?

Because I notice that all the links... "Top 50 Laser Pointer Companies - Green Lasers Top 50 Laser Pointer Companies - Blue Lasers Top 50 Laser Pointer Companies - Red Lasers" are all broken.

Also the forum's screen size is huge in Firefox.

I haven't had much time to look around but I am hoping to find current links to suppliers of 2mw+ LASER diodes and driver circuits.

...and happy to share my build and experimental experiences with the community.

Welcome to the forum.
I too noticed the links are broken it's kinda strange. You can buy parts for the laser from DTR's laser shop (Google it) for a good price. Safety glasses for that laser are available at survival laser USA.
Good luck with your first build.

The owner of the forums has a busy life and can't always be around to fix everything when it breaks.
Those are just ads. Do click on them, but they aren't always the best place to buy parts and LASERs.
These are quite active forums. If you are looking for safety glasses and parts, here are some links to the
best suppliers (other than what is in the Pro Shop and Sale/Trade sections).

https://sites.google.com/site/dtrlpf/home
Survival Laser USA Home
Sci-Fi-Lasers
http://www.aixiz.com/
Thorlabs, Inc. - Your Source for Fiber Optics, Laser Diodes, Optical Instrumentation and Polarization Measurement & Control
http://www.edmundoptics.com/
AnchorOptics.com - Supplies affordable, quality commercial grade and experimental grade optics

Also some eBay sellers who are usually pretty good
dtr-lpf
techhood
laserands