[dlangshaw]

Site name: The Fish Sniffer :up:
URL: http://fishsniffer.com
Description: Online forum and feature articles for the Northern California Anglers Publications newspaper "The Fish Sniffer"

- 20K plus active members covering the topics of fresh and saltwater fishing in the western USA. Also includes hunting threads and classifieds.

- The fishsniffer.com forums were originally developed and established using Yabb php which when the site was given to me as the new developer contained over 40 million files in the flat file perl system. The challenge was using impex to import the forums into vBcms over a year ago. Eventually with server tech support and third party vB support by Rafael Benard rafaweborama@gmail.com in Nicaragua we were able to stabilize and regain function of our forums.

- Now two years running vB. Our custom skin was developed using a purchased template from CompletevB.com which has been modified to replicate the branding of the newspaper.

Calendar and image gallery module have been added to the forum as well as VBSEO.

- Our goal is to create a subscriber driven section of the site where content from the paper and added extra features can be shared amongst paid subscribers to the elite section of the site. Unfortunately the neglect for vB cms has muted growth in this area of our site. Alternatives are being explored to overcome this yet the sites members will continue to enjoy the support and function of vBulletin forums.

Note : Comments and suggestions are always welcomed. info@fishsniffer.com