[jawatkin]

Site Name:
WebkinzInsider Webkinz Forums
URL:
www.webkinzinsider.com/forum
Description:
Third-party fan site for discussion of Webkinz virtual pets & virtual world.
Reason for Nomination:
WebkinzInsider was launched on March 23rd, 2007, and in 5.5 months has become the leading information source and place of activity in the Webkinz Community. This is a diverse community, in terms of the age demographic, ranging from under 10 years old to over 60.

As of this writing, we are approaching 25,000 members, & 1.2 Million posts. During the summer, we were averaging 300+ new users a day (our best day was 413), but now that school has started, we are (only) adding 175-200 per day.

This is a highly-modified template to match the Joomla template on the landing page, and for all the content articles, with a great deal of graphics involved. We've also created a "Safe trading" area to trade virtual items, in which people have to pass a relatively rigorous application and use the iTrader mod to keep track of our "good traders". Over 75,000 virtual trades and very few (less than 20) of our members have been scammed on a trade. At this point, we feel that it's "good enough" to submit, so here it is!