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Originally Posted by Masked Crusader

Site Name: Masked Crusader

URL: www.maskedcrusader.com

Description: Masked Crusader is a forum aimed towards Massively Multiplayer Online games and allows users a place to buy, sell, and trade these game accounts, items, and currency for such games as World of Warcraft, Order and Chaos, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and much more!

Reason for Nomination:

- 100% Custom skin.
- Customized side-bar with several built-from-scratch forum blocks such as New Members and Top Posters!
- Custom forum icons.
- Trust Who Association: Allows the user to associate their e-mail from a service called Trust Who with their forum account.

^^^ +1 for this, he just today re-skinned it too! Much better now.

Originally Posted by BlueCheri

Site Name: Offwalk - The Off topic forum

URL: http://www.offwalk.com

Description: General chat and discussion forum. A place to meet and make new friends. Relaxing and refreshing platform for online community.

Reason for Nomination:

- User friendly
- Friendly staff and members
- Simple and easy to browse

^^^ +1 for this, nicely done!

Originally Posted by snoopytas

Site Name: Australian Photography

URL: www.ausphotography.net.au

Description: www.ausphotography.net.au is a photography forum where members share their photography, photo editing skills and techniques. We run regular photographic competitions using a fully vB integrated custom photographic competition system.

Reason for Nomination:

- Custom Photographic Competition System, fully integrated into vB4
- Additional Menu Items for logged in member (AP Extras) that makes navigation a breeze
- eLibrary (Vaultiwiki) with an excellent New To Photography book and Learning Plan
- New Photographer friendly
- Various Skin options, the default is a dark skin because that is better for images
- Free site that gives out more than $5,000 in prizes each year (via sponsors and advertising revenue)
- Free Gallery for members with 50 posts and 30 days membership
- Very active niche community, that also facilitates real world meetings
- Google 'Australian Photography' and it's the #1 forum (top of the pops for our target audience)

^^^ +1 here for this too, really pulled off well. Tasteful.