[BOTM February 2007] Nominations Thread

[peterska2]

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month February.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120097

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of January. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM January will remain open as well until the 31st of January.



When nominating please post the site name, URL to the forum, a short description what makes your board stand out from default vBulletin, and a reason for nomination that will motivate others to second the nomination. If the staff feels that a nomination post is too promotional it will be edited accordingly.

Any sites without a name, URL, description and reason for nomination will NOT be entered into the poll. Please ensure that your nomination is in the format:

Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org (http://www.vbulletin.org) - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.



When seconding sites, please ensure that you use the same post for the maximim of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you include the site name or URL for the site you are seconding in your post. If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.



Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Kerry-Anne.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[Shazz]

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Site Name: vBCoderz
URL: www.vBCoderz.com
Description: Encourges people that don't have vBulletin to get vBulletin! And for the people that have vB its there for support!
Reason for Nomination: Its a good community has been out for 2-3 months and has 500 members + and looking for its first award :)
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[soletrader]

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/

Description: Financial forum for traders and active investors. We focus on futures, stocks, option, and forex.

Reason: We have taken a different approach in starting a forum. Our initial goal was to make our site more than a forum and interactive as possible. We feature articles sections, charts, videos, and chat rooms. We also host live chat seminars on trading. We have recently partnered up with a financial news firm and interviews can be streamed via our site through our audio player.

This is my first forum and website ever. I managed to make it without any coding knowledge so still shocked how I came up this far. We have managed to reach the 1,000 member mark this month within 5 months of launch. We are a revenue sharing board with adsense and also through amazon for those who write book reviews.

[Kryative]

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Site Name: vBCoderz
URL: www.vBCoderz.com
Description: Encourges people that don't have vBulletin to get vBulletin! And for the people that have vB its there for support!
Reason for Nomination: Its a good community has been out for 2-3 months and has 500 members + and looking for its first award :)
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I 2nd this nomination, this site is real good, looks nice and the owner gives a lot of help, i think this site is very supportive.

[Distance]

Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.

Everyone should agree

[svtsnake01]

Site Name: ModularFords
URL: http://www.modularfords.com/forums
Description: Discussion of Late Model Ford Performance
Reason for Nomination: Many changes to the default vBulletin design. Minimum of 50 new users per day.

[theodonnells]

I Nominate
Site Name: Toonsunited.com
URL: http://www.toonsunited.com
Description: A Forum for all Toontown fans (Disney online game) with Toontown graphics and a cartoony feel.
Reason for Nomination: The spam bots seem to like it, and i was wondering if you guys do too.

[Adrian Schneider]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

[cheesegrits]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

I second that!

-- hugh

[pyro.699]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.


Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/
Id like to third that :)

[wtrk]

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Site Name: vBCoderz
URL: www.vBCoderz.com
Description: Encourges people that don't have vBulletin to get vBulletin! And for the people that have vB its there for support!
Reason for Nomination: Its a good community has been out for 2-3 months and has 500 members + and looking for its first award :)
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im down for the vbcoderz! nice people lots of help. give them the trophy! hahha

[rareclownfish]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.


4th this site

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.


5th this site.

My reason for nomination:

Nice, clean design and layout. Great support staff & friendly community.

[Basboss]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

6th this site.

[gator777]

Site Name: The Armory

URL: www.the-armory.net (http://www.the-armory.net)

Description: The Armory is a community of gamers who enjoy playing PC games in a friendly environment. Originally founded in March of 2002, the Armory has evolved from a simple Half-Life Firearms community site, to a large community of gamers who enjoy both a successful game server and user-friendly website.

Reason for Nomination: Our community provides it's members with a friendly environment to exchange their thoughts and opinions, some of which are informative and even sometimes humorous. We are 100% self-supported with absolutely no funding coming from outside advertisers.

Thanks Coders: I would like to personally thank the many coders who created these wonderful scripts that allow my site to have all the "bells and whistles". No matter how many users download your script(s), whether it be 5 or 500, I can assure you that each and every one of us (end-users) appreciate all your hard work.

[joeychgo]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.


7th for this site.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.
8th!

[BamaStangGuy]

Site Name: ModularFords
URL: http://www.modularfords.com/forums
Description: Discussion of Late Model Ford Performance
Reason for Nomination: Many changes to the default vBulletin design. Minimum of 50 new users per day.
I second this one. Great site :)

[SaN-DeeP]

9th !

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

[|oR|Greg]

Site Name: AMAC - American Muscle Auto Club

URL: www.amacny.com

Description: AMAC is a car club unlike any other. We provide many perks for our members because we realize that members make the site, not the Admins. All members of our club/site get 3GB of personal storage for any/all types of attachments. Additional for the club itself we focus more on the people rather then the cars. Not just anyone can get in because of this. We allow all our members to speak openly and freely, in fact, we encourage it. If you can't be yourself then what's the point, is how we feel. All are welcome, but realize that because we only censor the board if someone is being TRULY hateful and angry, you might find the posts/threads rather candid.

Reason for Nomination: Because of our unique stance on censorship, focus on community, and all the mods/hacks working in harmony with our users, I feel we're an ideal choice for BOTM. We offer options like a Mobile Style for PDA/PocketPC users, in-line integration of Google Videos/You Tube/StreetFire within our Media Center, and much, much more!

Our site is best viewed in either the latest FireFox, or IE7, at resolutions at or above 1024x768.

[rolandogomez]

As Requested:

Originally Posted by rolandogomez
Site Name: CameraZoo.com
URL: http://www.camerazoo.com
Description: Photography Site for Pros to Hobbyist focusing on life and our world around us.
Reason for Nomination: Built buy a photographer who's learned from many coders, programmers, etc., and by helpful people here on Vbulletin.org, Vbulletin.com, Vblogetin.com, TheVBGeek.com, VBGreece.com, VBhacks.com, VBskinworks.com, VBmodder.com, VBadvanced.com, PhotoPost.com, Photoplog.com, Vbseo.com and every VB site out there...thanks for all the help. The site features numerous hacks, too many to name. Most important, this site proves that VBulletin is not hard to impliment and with help from the various Vb resources, it can be done.

Check it out, vote for it I hope! Thanks again to everyone for their help, advice and more, thanks, Rolando

[Kihon Kata]

Site Name: MakeupTalk.com
URL: www.MakeupTalk.com (http://www.MakeupTalk.com)
Description: Created in August of 2003, Makeuptalk.com is for women(and some men) to chit-chat about their favorite subjects: makeup, skin care, hair care, bath/body care, health and fitness, sex, beauty coupons, jokes, hot deals, and more. MakeupTalk's active custom coded Product Review Center (http://www.makeuptalk.com/reviews/index.php) is busy with almost 12,300 beauty product reviews written. The interactive custom coded Swap Center (http://www.makeuptalk.com/swap/index.php) is alive with over 2,600 active traders trading products into swaps! It all runs on a vB backend! Thanks vB! When we started it, I knew I had to have vB as my back end as it's truly the shining star of boards.

MakeupTalk.com is intended for women of all ages to exchange their beauty ideas and knowledge with other women around the world. With MakeupTalk, we can help each other and try to find solutions for the never ending questions about beauty, health and all the millions of products that are on the market. If you have already found some cool makeup products, makeup techniques, skin care ideas and fitness methods, that you know have helped you, please share it with the rest of us. Let’s also talk about the stuff that hasn’t worked that well so that we can prevent the disaster you went through happening to other women. Ladies of all ages, let’s get together and have some fun with our computers and get a real discussion going! Just click on any of the MakeupTalk.com categories to get started.

Reason for Nomination: One of the main reasons I would like to nominate www.Makeuptalk.com (http://www.Makeuptalk.com) is the hard work of our board moderators/super moderators and Jr. admin. (I'm the admin). These volunteers work their little tails off! My Hat's off to them. Thanks Girls! :)

The site has blossomed in the past 2 years with over 753,000 posts, 43,000 threads and over 41,000 registered users! It sure has come alive in the past 2 years receiving over 2,500-4,000 posts/daily. We run approx 20-40 hacks that are available here on THE ORG. I want to take this time to personally thank many of the dedicated coders who release such excellent work to help boards like ours. Thank you very much!!!

Sorry if I rambled and sorry for the long read, but I really feel like it deserves a nomination.

[Code Monkey]

I want to second the following three.

The Armory
CameraZoo
MakeupTalk

laters

[Kirk Y]

Site Name: ModularFords
URL: http://www.modularfords.com/forums
Description: Discussion of Late Model Ford Performance
Reason for Nomination: Many changes to the default vBulletin design. Minimum of 50 new users per day.

I Nominate
Site Name: Toonsunited.com
URL: http://www.toonsunited.com
Description: A Forum for all Toontown fans (Disney online game) with Toontown graphics and a cartoony feel.
Reason for Nomination: The spam bots seem to like it, and i was wondering if you guys do too.

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.


I second these three.

[aeroguy]

Site Name: Poker Bandits

URL: http://www.pokerbandits.ca

Description: A forum for US and Canadian poker enthusiasts.

Reason for Nomination: Nice design that features a custom modded homepage. Also features a friendly poker community.

[PoetJA-1975]

I'll second Modular Fords - very nice site - Very active site - Nicely designed!
http://www.modularfords.com/forums

I'll also second Camera Zoo - Nice default skin (love the colours) - nice modifications... I soooo want the weather mod from vBmodder :P
http://www.camerazoo.com

Congrats - AND good luck ;)

Jacquii.

[Phooey]

I'd like to nominate my own forum. If you like what you see, please second the nomination!

Site Name: Digitally Wise
URL: www.DigitallyWise.com
Description: Reviews & discussion for the truly wise.
Reason for Nomination: The community has grown by leaps and bounds lately and I feel that it deserves a shot for BotM. :D

[Snake]

I will surely nominate this time!

Name: Final Fantasy Forums
URL: http://www.finalfantasyforums.net
Description: Community forums to discuss on the popular series of computer and console role-playing games produced by Square Enix including a massive MMORPG system!

[theodonnells]

I will surely nominate this time!

Name: Final Fantasy Forums
URL: http://www.finalfantasyforums.net
Description: Community forums to discuss on the popular series of computer and console role-playing games produced by Square Enix including a massive MMORPG system!
I second this forum got to love the Rpg...:D

[ForumDog]

Site Name: DOGHOUSE

URL: http://doghouse.forumdog.com

Description: A forum about forums, aimed at promotion, review and building of communities rather than the more advanced modding side of things.

Reason for Nomination: Well, I'm afraid we don't have much of a super-dedicated community yet to plug, but we're hoping for one!

The forum is very highly customised featuring mods, mods of mods and plenty of Doghouse-only customisations. Some small touches like the combination post/thread/status icons (my personal favourite mod there, I know it's sad I just think it works really well) and section-specific favicons and some bigger modifications like the very-often-requested and soon-to-be-released-as-a-plugin Dogg post/thread voting (http://doghouse.forumdog.com/announcement.php?f=43&a=4) which hides negatively rated posts and threads and was made especially for the site.

The theme(s, there are a few colours) are equally highly customised in a super-quick, super-clean style and almost entirely redone in places to fully optimise the vBulletin UI and usabilty in key locations. The postbit I personally like the most, it has been totally redesigned into a unique and again super-clean "comment" style appearance.

Long story short, it may not be an all-singing, all-dancing graphical explosion. But lots of effort was put into extensive improvements where it counts and I think the result is worth a nod. Ta for reading, hope someone appreciates it!

[Qwest]

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Site Name: ZuneUser
URL: www.ZuneUser.com
Description: Product support and general discussion for the Microsoft Zune media player!
Reason for Nomination: It's the best in it's niche. No ego intended here. I say that because when I built the forum that was my full intention. To be better than all the not well put together zune forums out there. It's one of the newest Zune communites but gaining ground fast.

FEATURES:
Awesome postbit display: http://www.zuneuser.com/forums/new-users/70-hello-all-stl.html
Mood Hack
Thanks Hack
FREE Image Hosting
Arcade
Articles / Reviews / Tutorials (http://www.zuneuser.com/forums/zune-tutorials-how-tos/39-inside-zune-disk-structure.html) - Sections (GARS)
vBSEO
Myspace Profiles (with comments) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=109094&highlight=myspace) (will be installed today, already paid coder)

Most of the other Zune sites don't even use vbulletin. Looking for our first award :D

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[wtricks]

Site Name: Webmaster Tips & Tricks
URL: www.wtricks.com
Description: A webmaster community with unique articles and tutorials, free exclusive downloads (forum themes, graphics) and topics about everything related to web design and development.
Reason for Nomination: It's a vBulletin board with an unique layout (I have change almost everything in it), with over 20 modifications installed (Automatic Welcome PM, DownloadsII, Extended Signature Limits, Last XX Threads + Posts in UserCP, Members who have visited the forum, Thread Description and some more)

[Brandon Sheley]

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/

Description: Financial forum for traders and active investors. We focus on futures, stocks, option, and forex.

Reason: We have taken a different approach in starting a forum. Our initial goal was to make our site more than a forum and interactive as possible. We feature articles sections, charts, videos, and chat rooms. We also host live chat seminars on trading. We have recently partnered up with a financial news firm and interviews can be streamed via our site through our audio player.

This is my first forum and website ever. I managed to make it without any coding knowledge so still shocked how I came up this far. We have managed to reach the 1,000 member mark this month within 5 months of launch. We are a revenue sharing board with adsense and also through amazon for those who write book reviews.

I Nominate
Site Name: Toonsunited.com
URL: http://www.toonsunited.com
Description: A Forum for all Toontown fans (Disney online game) with Toontown graphics and a cartoony feel.
Reason for Nomination: The spam bots seem to like it, and i was wondering if you guys do too.

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

I 2nd these 3, great sites :)

[eNtitY~]

I second vBlogetin.com

[storpappa]

Site Name: GameGeekSpeak
URL: http://gamegeekspeak.com/

Description: Gamers community board offering podcasts, discussions, news, interviews and contests. The community support allows for hosted guilds which get forums, calendars and teamspeak all at no costs and ad free. Finally, the community donations are used to fund contests, game servers for sponsored clans and reimburse staff their monthly MMO fees as a reward for their contributions.

Reason for Nomination: After the past 3 years running sites on DotNetNuke and CommunityServer, I can tell you just how much better vBulletin is for someone new to vBulletin, this community and LAMP.

This site is up as of today for 3 weeks, is heading towards 3000 posts and is running all of the bells and whistles that make for a great, fun vBulletin community. The ease at which you can use the resources of vBulletin and the vBulletin community today to get not just up and running, but running huge is amazing. Integration out of the box and via mods and hacks is amazing.

Podcasts: I let my goal of podcasts go for over a year because the prior forums I worked with had no support, then when it came out, it was just horrible.
Photo Gallery: Can you imagine my joy at being able to actually move pictures, rename them and delete them?
Stats: You mean I don't need to manually run SQL reports, the forums have it already?
RSS feeds to populate forums: What, you mean I dont need to mnaully copy past in news items.

CommunityServer has no Community in it. Just broken features, lack of support, no mods, hacks and barely visible add-ons. Yet core features of the product just do not work. Get hit by SPAM? Check of the box hide this users posts. Then find out that a key feature in the base UI does nothing. And when you post about it, the CS community is not shocked or suprised.

So, GameGeekSpeak is running, and after working with different forums and software products for years, I cannot express how much I wish I had gone to vBulletin from the beginning. Thank you all for everything.

But what makes it the BOTM is how easy it ease to get all this going, and it all works and is rock solid. The bonus to this as a BOTM is my personal experience and frustrations with vBulletins competitors and a final remark, "Go vBulletin and have zero regrets."

[Skaterscafe.com]

Site Name: Skaters Cafe

URL: http://www.skaterscafe.com

Description: Skaters Cafe is a website for skateboarders.

Reason for Nomination: Skaterscafe.com is a website ran by and staffed by skateboarders. While most are teens the site runs smoothly, has a nice "community" feel, and nice features/layout. Skaterscafe was started in 2004 and now has 8200+ members, and almost 400,000 post. The site offers members many features, is easy to navagate, and is staffed my members from 6 countries.

Personally...I'm proud that a site composed mostly of kids can run as smoothly as this site has. :)

[Xoligy]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

Agreed. Got my vote.

[JamesN]

Site Name: Cricket Web
URL: www.cricketweb.net/forum/ (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/../)
Description: A forum dedicated to the great game of cricket.
Reason for Nomination: Cricket Web and the forum have been around since October 2001, and we recently became the first cricketing forum on the internet to reach 1 million posts and are looking into new ways of getting our site noticed by the general sporting community, and this seemed like a good start.

One thing you'll notice in regard to our vBulletin installation is that we've changed a lot of icons to make them cricket related :)

[BioWaffen]

Site Name: SpaceChess
URL: http://www.spacechess.de
Description: SpaceChess is a Forum for all chess players!
Reason for Nomination: This Forum exists since September, and we have now already more than 400 Users! You can play chess there, discuss about chess and many other features!

[Chris 96 WS6]

Site Name: LS1LT1.com Performance Forums
URL: http://www.ls1lt1.com
Description: Automotive niche forum focusing on late model GM performance cars (Camaro, Firebird, Corvette, etc.)
Reason for Nomination: Since inception on August 1, 2005, we've grown to almost 2,700 members. We have 26 direct business sponsorships displayed through an extensive phpadsnew integration. I think the site is deserving of nomination because we've managed to grow very quickly in what is a really competitive niche.

[ZiG]

Site Name: Ready-Up
URL: http://www.ready-up.com
Description: An Online Multiplayer Gaming Community
Reason for Nomination: Brand new Gaming Community forums, very few members but I've worked very hard on the design of the website and its features. Looking to improve upon the website in the year of 2007 and hopefully bring in and establish a community :)

[Lizard King]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.
I also want to second vblogetin :)

[steelerwatch]

Site Name: Steeler Nation.com
URL: www.steelernation.com/forums (http://www.steelernation.com/forums/index.php)
Description: Fansite for the Pittsburgh Steelers
Reason for Nomination: One of the largest and most active fansites for the 5 time Super Bowl Champions

[delaen1]

Site Name: devpals.com
URL: www.devpals.com
Description: Social Networking for Developers
Reason for Nomination: We put a lot of work in to the look, feel, navigation and put a premium on usability, user communication, and easy access to controls that let developers track what they and their friends are involved in.

[joeboo]

Site Name: Galadoria Online
URL: www.galadoriaonline.com
Description: An RPG forum
Reason for Nomination: Just released version 2 of the site which brings an entirely different design with many custom modifications.

[TrumpetMaster]

Site Name: TrumpetMaster.com

URL: http://www.trumpetmaster.com

Description: The Premier Trumpet Site on the web!

Reason for Nomination: TrumpetMaster is a very active board with close to 4000 members. We switched to VB a couple of months ago and will never look back. The site includes VBadvanced CMPS, VBadvanced Links, PhotoPost Classifieds and a Custom skin. Thanks for your consideration!

[NameClan.com]

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Site Name: NameClan.Com

URL: www.NameClan.com

Description: NameClan.com is Another forum to discuss, buy and sell names, A marketplace and community for domain name owners to Learn how to make money off domains and websites through pay per click programs!

Reason for Nomination: Its a new-established community has been out for about less than a week, although it needs more people to join and make the forum even better. This is the first Vbulletin forum that I have licensed, I wish more and more webmasters to use licensed Vbulletin on their forums. So, give me some encouragement for this reason!

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[danhaga]

Site Name: Urban Atrophy
URL: www.urbanatrophy.com/forum (http://www.urbanatrophy.com/forum)
Description: Urban Exploration and Photography
Reason for Nomination: This site is not only perdy and well modded but the content is great!

[StarBuG]

Site Name: Elternfragen.net

URL: http://www.Elternfragen.net

Description: A German Forum for parents and becoming parents run by a medical student to ask (medical) questions, talk about their kids, their problems with health, nutrition, raising children, memorable moments and much more.

Reason for Nomination: A very friendly community spirit is the first thing a visitor sees when reading any kind of thread in this relatively new community. Members who have questions are getting competent answers fast and most of them stay because of the community feeling that is driving this forum. The well designed graphics and color scheme makes it easy to spend a lot of time on the forum and the header and icons show you in a glance what this community is all about.
But there is more, a lot of modifications/features have been added to enhance the users experience and make them enjoy their time spend on the forum.
Overall till now we only received very positive feedback and if you speak German, if you have kids or want to have kids, we recommend you have a look.

[Majidm]

Site Name: Elternfragen.net

URL: http://www.Elternfragen.net

Description: A German Forum for parents and becoming parents run by a medical student to ask (medical) questions, talk about their kids, their problems with health, nutrition, raising children, memorable moments and much more.

Reason for Nomination: A very friendly community spirit is the first thing a visitor sees when reading any kind of thread in this relatively new community. Members who have questions are getting competent answers fast and most of them stay because of the community feeling that is driving this forum. The well designed graphics and color scheme makes it easy to spend a lot of time on the forum and the header and icons show you in a glance what this community is all about.
But there is more, a lot of modifications/features have been added to enhance the users experience and make them enjoy their time spend on the forum.
Overall till now we only received very positive feedback and if you speak German, if you have kids or want to have kids, we recommend you have a look.


I second this nomination because it has a great colour scheme and design, and the community is great to interact with. Overall it is a solid forum for German parents.

[trickfly]

Site Name: TrickFly

URL: www.TrickFly.com (http://trickfly.com)

Description: Webmaster Marketplace Forum, 200+ members, growing very fast.

[Ahsin1]

Site Name: Desi Online

Url: www.mydesionline.in

Description: MyDesiOnline Unlimited Desi Entertainment more than 73k Members and 200+ members every day

[UltraVR]

Site Name: Bibliapedia.com

URL: http://www.bibliapedia.com

Description: The discussion forum for one of the fastest growing online Biblical scholarship sites. We have discussions about Biblical exegesis, history, and other things to go along with the encyclopedia, timeline, articles, etc.

Reason for Nomination: A lot of work has been put into this site and these forums, by several people. They have worked painlessly to make the site fast, easy to navigate, and full of important and quality content. They have also tried very hard to make the forums a friendly, enjoyable, relevant, and easy to use community experience. So far, their strategy is working. This site is full of good information, has a lively and entertaining group of members, is growing fast, and truly deserves a simple nomination.

[bo0oost]

Site Name: My Pro Street
URL: http://my.prostreetonline.com
Description: Community for the Pro Street Online Store.
Reason for Nomination: Very nicely done, I'm a member of this board, and I love it. Has many features that I don't see on other boards, and they all tie in together very nicely.

[interfx]

Site Name: TrumpetMaster.com

URL: http://www.trumpetmaster.com

Description: The Premier Trumpet Site on the web!

Reason for Nomination: TrumpetMaster is a very active board with close to 4000 members. We switched to VB a couple of months ago and will never look back. The site includes VBadvanced CMPS, VBadvanced Links, PhotoPost Classifieds and a Custom skin. Thanks for your consideration!

Seconded... Nice Look, Growing Community...

[HPIA]

Name: HP In Action
URL: http://hpinaction.com
Description: A Harry Potter with tons of features. You will never be bored. We have flaschat, vbplaza, arcade, shoutboxes, tons of skins, and much more. We offer much more than that though, including the best discussion out there!

[aj8690]

Site Name: Pure Talk Forum
URL: http://puretalkforum.com
Description: Talk about anything forum & chat room where guests talk about their interests. Also includes a cool site of the day, how-to article of the day and the ibproarcade add-on with tons of games!
Reason for Nomination: Our wonderful new community (growing rapidly) is full of great members who get to share their thoughts and talk about their interests, while having fun in the arcade and chilling in the chat room.

[Shazz]

Site Name: Pure Talk Forum
URL: http://puretalkforum.com
Description: Talk about anything forum & chat room where guests talk about their interests. Also includes a cool site of the day, how-to article of the day and the ibproarcade add-on with tons of games!
Reason for Nomination: Our wonderful new community (growing rapidly) is full of great members who get to share their thoughts and talk about their interests, while having fun in the arcade and chilling in the chat room.

Second*

[mac27]

Site Name: Eagle Graphix
URL: www.eaglegraphix.com (http://www.eaglegraphix.com)
Description: Graphix Community
Reason for Nomination: It is a growing community for graphic designers. We offer graphic services, vbulletin styles and graphics, logo contest and much more. We try to help everyone from beginners on up. It is a place of friends helping friends.

[InfiniteWebby]

Site Name: A Lot of Talk

URL: http://www.alotoftalk.com/

Description: A Lot of Talk is a former anime board that evolved into a place where some close nit community goers could hang out and just chat about anything.

Reason for Nomination: A Lot of Talk is a heavily modified board with it's own custom style and a few custom hacks. It also has a very solid member base and is a place where a lot of great conversations (about anything) take place.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Site Name: Eagle Graphix
URL: www.eaglegraphix.com (http://www.eaglegraphix.com)
Description: Graphix Community
Reason for Nomination: It is a growing community for graphic designers. We offer graphic services, vbulletin styles and graphics, logo contest and much more. We try to help everyone from beginners on up. It is a place of friends helping friends.

I second this wonderful site!

[Kaleem]

Site Name: Friends Korner
URL: http://www.friendskorner.com/forum
Description: Community for Pakistani and All desi friends.

Reason for Nomination: I am the admin of that forum, and I love it. I was not going to try it but the first anniversary is coming for my site so atleast can take 1% chance to make it lol.

[oly51]

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

Add my second to this fine site. :up:

[hcmagix]

Site Name: hertha-chat.de

URL: http://www.hertha-chat.de/

Description: A Portal/Forum from fans about Hertha BSC a Soccer Club played in the first german Soccer League named Bundesliga.

Reason for Nomination: Nice Style, Fine Community, Daily News about the Club. And why not a german board? :)

[popowich]

Originally Posted by popowich

Site Name: WNYPoker.com

URL: http://www.wnypoker.com/forums/

Description: WNYPoker.com is a poker strategy and discussion forum for all poker players, and a local events calendar for poker games in and around Western New York. We also have a variety of members only community features including the free arcade games, blogs, online poker freerolls, and live chat with other poker players!

Reason for Nomination: Over the last three years our forum has grown to a mostly local community of over 2100 members. It is unique in that in addition to spending time in the forums we also play poker online, at local games around Western New York, and do other things not related to poker. Think of it as taking the best parts of a discussion forum and meetup.com and putting them together.

-Raymond

[Ohiosweetheart]

Site Name: WNYPoker.com

URL: http://www.wnypoker.com/forums/

Description: WNYPoker.com is a poker strategy and discussion forum for all poker players, and a local events calendar for poker games in and around Western New York. We also have a variety of members only community features including the free arcade games, blogs, online poker freerolls, and live chat with other poker players!

Reason for Nomination: Over the last three years our forum has grown to a mostly local community of over 2100 members. It is unique in that in addition to spending time in the forums we also play poker online, at local games around Western New York, and do other things not related to poker. Think of it as taking the best parts of a discussion forum and meetup.com and putting them together.

-Raymond

I second this site

[peterska2]

Please ensure that you use one post for all seconds.

Thank you.

[TMXS]

Site Name: Guilty Parties

URL: http://www.guiltyparties.com/forums

Description: A general discussion forum with a long history of promoting free speech and fighting censorship.

Reason for Nomination: Through creativity, design, regular maintenance, updates, and additions we have nurtured the physical aspect of Guilty Parties Forums over the years. Through commitment and loyalty we have kept it alive and an active staple of the community it hails from. The board has greatly evolved from its humble beginnings to the entity of today through the dedication of members and staff, for both of whom I contribute this nomination.

[texasf1racer]

Site Name: F1racerForums

Forum URL: http://www.f1racerforums.com/forum

Description: A community focused around Formula 1 motor racing as well as other forms of racing both real and simulation.

Reason for Nomination: F1racerForums is still a fairly new community only created in Oct2006. I am the main admin of the site and I have been really pleased with the outcome of the design and graphics as well as the progress of the site. This is my first nomination as well as my first site/forum to design and manage. I've added many new features to the site, alot of them coming from right here on vBulletin.org. Many thanks to all those who make these great mods and thanks to all of F1racerForums staff for your help running the forum. This nomination is dedicated to all of you.

-Tex

[Tommy12345]

Site Name: WingMakers

URL: http://wingmakers.net

Description: WingMakers and Paranormal Discussion Forum

Reason for Nomination: 1. Simple design to increase speed, no fancy styles. Very customizable and powerful. 2.Features new post hybride mode display system 3. Display of user customizable upload background picture by repeat or no repeat tile. 4. New post highlighted with new post icon without the need for login. 5. The title logo at the top is dark compare to the rest of the forum to show the diversity between paranormal and normal boundaries of reality. Title logo only appears on the index page to increase speed. 6. Country is automatically inserted to database during registration using ip / country database

[Atakan KOC]

Site Name: ?n Sayfa Forum ( Front Page Forum )

URL : www.onsayfa.com (http://www.onsayfa.com)

Description: ?n Sayfa Community

[LambHyjoo]

Site Name: Hyjoo

URL: www.hyjoo.com (http://www.hyjoo.com/)

Description: Off-topic french board. Discussions concern movies, music, games... To sum up : everything which is related to leasure entertainment.

Reason for Nomination: Our community has been growing more and more these last six months. A huge work has been done in order to answear to members' needs, making Hyjoo a heavily modified board, with a lot of "homemade" hacks. A few examples :

- We created our own article system with a special "indexation feature" (see here (http://www.hyjoo.com/fiches-anime-et-manga.html) for an example with our Anime & Manga Index) !

- We created a fully integrated IRC system (with unrealircd server, and a java script which links it to the vB database). Only Hyjoo members are able to login to this private IRC server (test it here (http://irc.hyjoo.com) if you want) !

- We now have our directory, generated from the DMOZ one, and integrated in our board.

I know most of your guys are not English, but it's been something like 2 years I am a vBulletin addict, and I couldn't wait to make Hyjoo a candidate for the BOTM ! :)

[peterska2]

OK, there are just under 24 to go before nominations are closed for BOTM February.

If you haven't already done so, have a look at the sites that have been nominated and second the ones that you like. You can second up to three sites providing all seconds are located within the same post.

Good luck everyone.

[DevinM]

Site Name: A Lot of Talk

URL: http://www.alotoftalk.com/

Description: A Lot of Talk is a former anime board that evolved into a place where some close nit community goers could hang out and just chat about anything.

Reason for Nomination: A Lot of Talk is a heavily modified board with it's own custom style and a few custom hacks. It also has a very solid member base and is a place where a lot of great conversations (about anything) take place.


Second.

[peterska2]

Nominations have now closed for BOTM February. The nominations thread for March will be available when the poll is made available