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ImportsNC.com 09-26-2008 07:55 PM

Well here goes nothing!

Site Name: ImportsNC.com

URL: www.importsnc.com/forums

Description: Premier automotive community in North Carolina with 8,900 members and 872,XXX posts.

Reason for Nomination: Clean design, smart modifications and one LOYAL community that interacts online and in real life. Administered by 2 and monitored by a moderator staff near 30. I built this forum from the ground up and with no previous coding skills. And wow 3.7 is so much more enjoyable to mod then vB 5 years ago.

Currently 3.7.3 with following mods:
Cyn Donation mod - converted into a Premium Membership program launched this week! Offering yearly subscriptions or lifetime membership and full of benefits. Lots of people signing up already.

ChatBox - only viable to members, only usable by Premium members.

vbExperience - encourages quality participation not just posting for post counts.

Post thanks system - bc you should be thanked if you post something helpful... had to limit to 4 posts a day because people quickly got too thanks happy.

Latest Album picture at top of forum... bc car guys love looking at pictures.

Top 5 stats - bc people like statistics, or at least I do.

Smart modifications that make your members happy without making the forum confusing and cluttered.

Seems to be working, members are happy and have posted about 8,000 posts this week.

Ohiosweetheart 09-27-2008 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redtailboa (Post 1625785)
Site Name: Women For Sarah Palin
URL: http://www.womenforsarahpalin.net/
Description: Political website dedicated to supporters of Sarah Palin
Reason for Nomination: A great looking & fast growing website. Great vbulletin, VBA CMPS and VBA Links implementation

Second!

shlomot 09-27-2008 04:47 AM

Site Name: Top Synergy Connections

URL: www.topsynergy.net

Description: tsConnections is a community that offers a varity of tools, know-how, and support to those who want to learn as much as possible about themselves, others, and their potential compatibility.

Reason for Nomination: Making extensive use of index.php?page=... and userfield table (see My Information link in the Toolbox menu) in order to provide an array of personality reports, forecasts, and other tools (see Toolbox menu) that are database-driven and tailored to the logged in user. Same tools and reports are now developed to provide a view on other members personality and life path; look at the Get to Know this Member block on each profile.

Privacy Policy: Each member can set up the following viewing permissions for each of their reports: Everyone | Members Only | Friends | Keeps to myself. We make use of the contacts table to verify friendship.

Note: We have set up a test user for your convenience. Username: test | Password: testing, and the best user to test for reports about other members is topsynergy (my own).

Ash Ketchum 09-27-2008 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reinhart (Post 1630517)
Site Name: Nintendo World Forum
URL: http://www.wiipals.net/Forum/
Description: Nintendo Wifi Discussion
Reason for Nomination: Layout is very clean and appealing. Multiple mods and template customizations unique to this site. Check out the modifications to the postbit as well as the member profiles and member list with regards to user "friend code" distribution.
I try to keep it clean and limit the number of ads (compared to some other gaming forums out there sheesh!) Weve even created (by hand) our own "Wifi Hub" for Nintendo-ites to play in! Live flashchat has about 40 users in it at any given time and we're gaining over 1000 members/month (3400 last month ) Check out our community and Id appreciate any feedback!

Just installed a fully functional Gifts System that updates a credit system via paypal :)

Feel free to login to test the site out!
(removes some ads/welcome text)

Login: testing
Pass: testing

PS: Im running 3.6.9 for those of you who haven't upgraded yet.. all of the mods and template customizations seen on the site run fine with it so dont be too afraid to upgrade! (Just FYI)

I Second This Site!


From what i can see, this site has much appeal. The Site is VERY Clean and organized, the staff are doing a great job(I didnt see any spam!)
There is not an over flow of mods. Its very tidy, keeping to the name of the forum. From what I have seen the modifications have been customized, making the forum feel more original, none of them have just been left there, creating errors and problems in pages.

The Friend Code system is an added plus! Forget the long list of profile fields, with that mod, it makes exchanging FC's Quick. Not to mention the Wifi Hub and Flashchat!

There is much much more to this site, and from where its came from almost 2 years ago, (Look at how many registrations!) this site deserves to be nominated.

- Ash !Second!


PS: >.> Wtf.

ssandgirls 09-30-2008 06:16 AM

Site Name: My little Pony Trading post
URL: www.mlptp.net

Description: My Little Pony Trading Post is a community for My Little pony collectors. We offer plenty of information, active forums with friendly members and staff. Our site has been running since May 2005 ( VBulletin from May 2007)

Reason for Nomination: We are friendly and welcoming site for all ages, we make use of graphics created by our members and themes as well. Our forums are nicely organised, and we provide a gallery ( Photoplog Pro) as well as classifieds ( Photopost Classifieds) for our members to use free of charge. We also use VB Advanced for our Home Page. We have no advertising on our pages. We are a great source of knowledge for My Little Pony Collectors, and are a very vibrant community.

Ciderhelm 10-01-2008 01:25 AM

Site Name: TankSpot
URL: http://www.tankspot.com/

Description: TankSpot is a World of Warcraft niche fansite which covers MMO tanking and guild management.

Reason for Nomination: Clean, unique design and navigation; integration of a variety of popular modifications.

dkikuchi 10-01-2008 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ciderhelm (Post 1634371)
Site Name: TankSpot
URL: http://www.tankspot.com/

Description: TankSpot is a World of Warcraft niche fansite which covers MMO tanking and guild management.

Reason for Nomination: Clean, unique design and navigation; integration of a variety of popular modifications.

Seconded :)

Gotta give some love to the somewhat last minute submission that looks like a really solid design :)

logicuk 10-01-2008 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexialys (Post 1616265)
Originally Posted by nexialys
Site Name: THC Farmer
URL: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/
Description: Marijuana Growing Forum.
Reason for Nomination:
my job on that site was to debug the existing engines, take a style from a uncoded .psd file, and make it a complete high-quality design, with transparent images (the header is quite transparent)... CSS3 and XHTML techniques for the style itself, coordonance of the style with the vBulletin structure, and a lot of CSS enhancements to replace the icons. all images created are .jpg or .png, to fit with the non-usage of .gif.

Do not judge the content of the forum. Judge the usage of the scripts, like the CoffeeShop Reviews, the Guides and FAQs...



I 2ND THIS ONE :D:D

SEOvB 10-01-2008 09:25 PM

Site Name: Search Engine Optimization & Webmaster forums
url: http://seotips4.com/forum/
Description: SEO help
Nomination Reason: Loads of information to help webmasters increase their SERPS. Achieved a PR3 in under a month

Guest190829 10-02-2008 12:59 AM

Nominations closed.


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