Showing off my NFL Site: GridironFans.com (now complete!)
 

GridironFans.com: 100% Uncensored Football Forums

This is my NFL football site. We pride ourselves in being a uncensored forum that allows our members to express themselves in any way they want without having to worry about being banned. One of the features that helps this is our "Fight Club" forum which allows people to partake in flame wars. This forum gives them a place to do so instead of all over the forum, lets only the people interested in the war read it and lets members feel like they have freedom to express themselves how they want.

We also pride ourselves in keeping our members up to date with all the latest news and rumors from around the NFL. We have a staff of 9 members who are constantly scouring for and posting news. We also recently installed the vBogetin hack and are on our way to our goal of eventually having a blog for all 32 NFL teams.

I edited the vBadvanced modules some so they would show the post icons in a separate table and more organized. I am also using the Frontpage Slideshow hack by Lionel. Here is a list of other mods I am using on my site:

• Blank Profile Fields
  Detects if a user has not filled out a profile field (or fields) and displays a notice.
  
• BoardTracker Topic Tagging System
  A fully integrated, advanced thread tagging system for your board powered boardtracker forum search engine.
  
• Contact Us Visual Authentication
  An image based verification system to prevent bots using the Contact Us page
  
• Enhanced Captcha Image Verification
  An image based verification system to prevent bots signing up to your forum
  
• EWT - Thread Description
  Adds a description to threads and adds a separate column for thread author.
  
• ibProArcade for vBulletin
  ibProArcade - professional Arcade System for vBulletin
  
• ICash
  User point system
  
• Inactive User Reminder Emails
  Sends emails out to inactive users encouraging them to re-visit the forum
  
• Logician's WebTemplates
  Logician's WebTemplates Hack
  
• Members who have visited the forum
  Display members who have visited the forum.
  
• Multiple Login Detector
  Cookie-based multiple account login detector
  
• nCode Image Resizer
  Automatically resize posted images
  
• No Links or Images alowed (15 posts or less)
  Throws an error message for spammers.
  
• Referrer Statistics
  Created By VisionScripts (www.visionscripts.com)
  
• Require X Posts To Use PM System
  This mod requires users to have X posts to use the private message system.
  
• vB Milestones
  This starts a thread congratulating a member on a post milestone in a forum of your choice.
  
• vBadvanced CMPS
  vBadvanced Content Management & Portal System
  
• vBlogetin
  A blogging system for vBulletin 3.6 by Adrian Schneider (SirAdrian)
  
• vBookie
  vBulletin Betting Hack
  
• vB_Cement
  Thread weigting system for vBulletin
  
• Welcome Thread
  Automatically Start a Welcome Thread in the Forum of Your Choice
  
• Yet Another Award System
  Admin can give members awards, and award
  
• Yet Another Mass Private Message System
  Allow Admin to send mass Private Message to users

Other mods:

• inlineVideo - Youtube / Myspace / Google / Ebaums
• Default Avatar
• Incomplete Profile Fields Reminder
• Embed your DailyMotion Video into your posts
• Filter Threads By Post Icon
• Automatically Start a Welcome Thread in the Forum of Your Choice
• Require post icon - Forum specific
• My Team Hack
• How To Separate Sticky and Normal Threads

LoL 'uncensored'

Overall, good looking site...it's just a lil' cluttered IMO.

I also forgot to mention that my site used to run on phpBB since it first opened in July 2004. We have gone from some real scary designs:

The ORIGINAL GridironFans.....scary!

And went through a nightmare with with IntegraMod portal for phpBB. (If anyone ever suggests IntegraMod, just run....don't look back). Eventually we went back to a stock phpBB board with a custom wordpress-style front page. The front page was great, but the forum was a mess thanks to the sloppy code. I finally decided to jump in and get vBulletin recently and have not looked back. I am amazed at how easy it is to work (outside of the permissions which I am still trying to learn, you need to set a permission for everything it seems) and I guess I am also battle tested from dealing with phpbb for years. This new site is my first effort with vBulletin and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.


Thank you for the review!

Are you allowed to use the NFL logo ? Just Courious

I don't know....I know numerous other NFL forums do (nfl-fans.com, nfltalk.com for example)

Had a friend Get shut down for using a Rams Head Dodge Logo on his home page Just seen how many NFL logos you have and was curious thats all , I Dont care Knock Your Self Out ...lol

DM

not bad something we can talk smack about a players....i like the lay out but i'm using FF and saw that its spread to wide...if i were you write small a disclaimer at the footer of the page about all logos used on that forum is the property of nfl you are not associated with nfl in anyway what so ever..Sometrhing to that effect. they won't have a problem with it as long as you are not profiting from there log0s. I had to do that for my mobile forum when i was using the nextel logos .

hope that helps:up:

by the way E.A.G.L.E.S ...eagles rule...lmao :D

I like it!

To the logos question...at the VERY least they're going to have an issue with you using the NFL logo inside of your official logo. That gives the perception that you're officially associated with the NFL. I'm not a lawyer so take that for what it's worth, but I'd be willing to bet that would be a problem.

I run an NFL team fansite, and the rule of thumb we have to follow is 'no logos or player images in our headers'. Everything else is fair game. They will usually give you a warning if there's a problem, so I'd keep them until they make you change them.

you'll be ok bud good work:up:

Thanks for the advice everyone. I am going to be changing the site from my current domain to "NFLUncensored.com" (I can't believe that the name wasn't registered) and once I do I will be changing the header image and having a custom site logo.

If its uncensored why do you not allow nudity avatars...?

...hypocrite....

:D

I noticed that all of the NFL and team logos are gone. It definitely looked a lot more appealing with all of the logos. Did you find out that you can't use them? Just curious.
Nice site by the way!

I did...the NFL contacted me! I posted about it on my site:

http://gridironfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31582

"Serious and irreparable harm?" "Egregious" acts?

[high]* Guest210212002 rolls his eyes
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Superlawyer also pointed out that vBookie is somehow illegal, even though it's gambling with virtual money. I'm sure nobody will watch the Super Bowl this year because you had their logo on your site. :down:

Sorry to hear they're hassling you man, that's just weak. Perhaps the idiot lawyer from the NFL should sue half of MySpace for having their favorite team's logos on their pages as well.

I'm going to guess that he's not 13, and wants to be able to browse his own forums from places like work.

how i just saw your site a few days ago.. from a link on vblogetin.. nice site dude.. keep it up..

Thanks! We have made even more changes to the site and now have our own site logo for a change. :cool:

nice job but the logo would look good..lol...did you ever tried contacting nfl?? just curious i'm sure they'll allow you...but anyways looks great:up:

I'm sorry....but...what?

that's it ...what....!!!

WHat is the image rotatore on the front page?

News Slideshow

Just know though that the News Slideshow mod that is posted does not work. You have to buy the Frontpage Slideshow from JommblaWorks THEN e-mail the owner of the site there for the vbulletin version. It's a very frustrating mod to deal with and there is no support at all.

That is right. I'm dealing with it right now and what a PITA it is. Part of me regrets buying the addon because of the lack of support, but I know the finished product will be worth it. Trying to hang on!

Theres A Big Difference , People on myspace are not trying to make Money off the Trademarked logos and images

DM

uncensored there means little kids can cuss, that's all. It's actually a very over moderated site.

very nice!