July BOTM Nominations - I've had the FLU hold on to your hats!!!

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of July 2010.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/info.php?do=botm








Let me reiterate the rules for this thread:

• Only post nominations or seconds, no chatter.
• All seconds are to be placed in 1 post, with a max of 3.
• All seconds should include the word "second" or "+1".
• All posts must be in English.

Please abide by these rules or your post will be removed.


Nominations will be accepted until the 30th June 2010 (close to midnight... close means +/- HOURS. YES, I WILL CLOSE AND GET TO IT AS "SOON" AS I CAN (Like when they have to type that code in the tv show "LOST" this is some serious stuff here!!!)

When nominating please post the site name, URL to the forum, a short description what makes your board stand out from default vBulletin, and a reason for nomination that will motivate others to second the nomination. If the staff feels that a nomination post is too promotional it will be edited accordingly.

Any sites without a name, URL, description and reason for nomination will NOT be entered into the poll. Please ensure that your nomination is in the format:


Originally Posted by Sample Nomination

Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.

When seconding sites, please ensure that you use the same post for the maximum of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you quote the nomination post you are seconding in your post (Use Multi-Quote Option if you are nomination multiple boards). If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.

Also, please make sure that you are seconding a forum that has already been nominated by its forum owner. Any seconds for a forum that has not been nominated yet will be counted as null and void.

Please posts only nominations or seconds, NO "Thank you" posts are needed, they clutter the thread and will be DELETED.

IMPORTANT inqueries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Roms or an Administrator.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[webcosmo]

Second these

Originally Posted by wAnBoA

Site Name: Aboxcafe
URL: http://www.aboxcafe.com
Description: Total Hybrid Community - For All Your Entertainment Needs!
Reason for Nomination:

• Pure entertainment on pretty much every level. Expected audience is so broad that anyone can join!
• Unique 101 customized skins.
• Over 10 active contests to keep you entertained.
• Most importantly, friendly and fun loving community and of course, dedicated staff.

Originally Posted by shanejeffery86

Site Name: Masked Crusader
URL: www.maskedcrusader.com
Description: Masked Crusader is online MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) buying, selling, and trading community for games like World of Warcraft, Aion, Runescape, etc.
Reason for Nomination:

* 4 completely customized skins that people can choose from. Head over to the sidebar to the Quick Style Chooser and pick your accent color!
* Use Wordpress blogging system on the site. The theme has been completely customized to make it look nothing like nothing Wordpress (can be found at http://www.maskedcrusader.com/blog). Also created custom sidebar box on vBulletin to pull the latest Blogs from Wordpress.
* Custom feedback system that allows Trust Who Verified members to leave a positive, neutral, or negative rating for a user. The feedback that a user leaves for another user can be edited any time in the future in the event that something in the rating needs to be updated.
* Completely custom Donator system with access to a shoutbox, color coded user titles (not usernames), a donator icon that displays on both the threadbit and postbit, and is an ad-free setup!
* Custom phone verification script that calls the user with a code and the user has to enter it into the website. This modification incorporates a Paypal hook so that the user can pay for the service.
* Custom association system with something called Trust Who. A user registers, and if he or she is a Trust Who member, they just enter their e-mail address. From there, we do a pull from Trust Who's API and find out if the user is truly verified. Verified users are shown by a black/white Trust Who logo image in the threadbit and postbit.
* The sidebar is completely custom. Does not use any modification here on this site. The latest threads box and top posters are both custom coded to allow for optimized querying.

A nomination will greatly help to aid in pushing us in the right direction towards competing with the other top dogs in the RMT (Real Money Trading) market!

[bozonessinc]

Originally Posted by webcosmo

Site Name: Webcosmo Forums

URL: http://www.webcosmoforums.com/

Description: Webmaster Forum offering help and resources on SEO, online marketing, online business, website design & development, and other webmaster related categories.

Reason for Nomination: Webcosmo Forums is one of the fastest growing webmaster forum. We are on the first page of Google.com for the keyword webmaster forum. Our first hand experience on website design, website development, marketing, SEO lets us help out webmasters who seek help better. We recently upgraded the forum to vbulletin 4 with a completely new look and feel.

second this nomination - nice site.

Originally Posted by triadink

Site Name: FreelanceFirst
URL: www.freelancefirst.com
Description: Freelance web design resources and talk
Reason for Nomination: This is a heavily customised vBulletin theme, It is a 4.0.3 theme and you don't see this version modified this heavily.

I really love the theme thats why I'll second this nomination:

Site Name: Chat Ripple - General Chat Forum
URL: http://chatripple.com
Description: New General Chat Forum
Reason for Nomination: A New General Chat Forum that changes the meaning of chatting, with a record of hunts which have caught pedophiles, this forum creates a new kind of general discussion, where anyone can just hang out and chat.

Caleb

[omniqix]

Site Name: Sociopets.com
URL: http://www.sociopets.com/forum/
Description: Forum for owners of regular and exotic pets
Reason for nomination: Not many forums where the owners of pet cockroaches, Llamas and Skunks can get togehter and chat

[MGP_Tech]

Site Name: Madhatterr Games Presents
URL: http://myworldofdarkness.com
Description: An fan site for vampire and werewolf fans - featuring Vampire the Masquerade & Werewolf the Apocalypse online game play.
Reason for Nomination: Vampires, Werewolves and all things supernatural are kind of the rage right now. We offer fans a place to dish about their favorite movies, books and tv shows as well as some place they can put their imaginations to work and escape the everyday!

[BenBase]

Site Name: Apple iPad Forum

URL: http://www.iTreffen.com

Description: That is the new meeting place for Apple iPad owners. We want approximately to give a possibility for discussions to the users with this forum around the new Gadget from the house Apple. We would be pleased, even if times a German side would win. Thank you

:up:

[emath]

Site Name: Emath
URL: http://www.emath.co.il
Description: you can read all about emath here : http://www.emath.co.il/forums/AboutUs.php

Reason for Nomination: this is a different look forum, a better design in my opinion which more popular among israeli`s forums, check it out .

[afterlab]

Site Name: Gamertag Nation
URL: http://www.gamertagnation.com
Description: An Innovative Social Network for Xbox 360 Gamers
Reason for Nomination: Nowhere else can you find an organized list of Xbox 360 games, user-submitted reviews and ratings, guides, calendar events, and news from all of your favorite gaming sites. The growing popularity of social networking and our love for gaming has given us a reason to merge the two concepts into one. With your gamertag registered at Gamertag Nation, you can actively play Xbox 360 games on your console and visit our website for content directed specifically to the game you played. Compare your statistics, achievements, and gamerscore all at the same time, too. Even if gaming isn't in your blood, stay for the active community. Join groups with other members, make friends, leave comments, post blog entries, or just lounge in one of our many discussion forums. This simple idea has grown and evolved into the full-fledged social gaming community it is today.

[OcR Envy]

Site Name: PocketFives
URL: www.pocketfives.com
Description: Online Poker Rankings / Forum
Reason for Nomination: Pocket Fives is the leading Online Poker Ranking site on the web. We recently migrated from Community Server to vBulletin 4.x. The site design entirely custom with many many code modifications that make vB 4 work for us. We rank users based on tournament, location and user voting to determine the top online poker players in the world. But most importantly the site has 5 Million+ Posts and 80,000+ Users running vBulletin CMS 4.x with out crashing, heh.

[smnet]

Hi Everyone, I had an account on here a while back which some of you knew me by when I ran Webforumz.com. My new love is midwifery.... yeah, Im a guy but I love being involved with such a great bunch of people and making a difference to midwifery causes in the UK and the developing world.

Site Name
StudentMidwife.NET

URL
http://www.studentmidwife.net/

Description
An education based midwifery community and social hub for students and aspiring midwives in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the rest of the world. Offering help, advice, support and forum discussion on all topics from thinking about becoming a midwife, right through to training, qualifying and beyond.

Reason for Nomination
Unique website features and stunning navigation approach. Features include a well used blogs area, very frequented groups, customised forum layouts used in many areas. Events, competitions, Quizzes and 11,000 of the friendliest members ever.

I didn't see any mention about screenshots in the rules and so have included one showing just a portion of the screen to demonstrate a function only available to those logged in. Please delete if this is against the rules.

Rob

[Michael Biddle]

Originally Posted by smnet

Hi Everyone, I had an account on here a while back which some of you knew me by when I ran Webforumz.com. My new love is midwifery.... yeah, Im a guy but I love making a difference to midwifery causes in the UK and the developing world.

Site Name
StudentMidwife.NET

URL
http://www.studentmidwife.net/

Description
An education based midwifery community and social hub for students and aspiring midwives in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the rest of the world. Offering help, advice, support and forum discussion on all topics from thinking about becoming a midwife, right through to training, qualifying and beyond.

Reason for Nomination
Unique website features and stunning navigation approach. Features include a well used blogs area, very frequented groups, customised forum layouts used in many areas. Events, competitions, Quizzes and 11,000 of the friendliest members ever.

I didn't see any mention about screenshots in the rules and so have included one showing just a portion of the screen to demonstrate a function only available to those logged in. Please delete if this is against the rules.

Rob

Seconded!