[BOTM February 2007] Nominations Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month February.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120097

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of January. Also, please note, that the current voting thread for BOTM January will remain open as well until the 31st of January.



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 maximim of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you include the site name or URL for the site you are seconding in your post. If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.



Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to [name]Kerry-Anne[/name].

Best of luck to all nominees!

[rolandogomez]

As Requested:

Originally Posted by rolandogomez
Site Name: CameraZoo.com
URL: http://www.camerazoo.com
Description: Photography Site for Pros to Hobbyist focusing on life and our world around us.
Reason for Nomination: Built buy a photographer who's learned from many coders, programmers, etc., and by helpful people here on Vbulletin.org, Vbulletin.com, Vblogetin.com, TheVBGeek.com, VBGreece.com, VBhacks.com, VBskinworks.com, VBmodder.com, VBadvanced.com, PhotoPost.com, Photoplog.com, Vbseo.com and every VB site out there...thanks for all the help. The site features numerous hacks, too many to name. Most important, this site proves that VBulletin is not hard to impliment and with help from the various Vb resources, it can be done.

Check it out, vote for it I hope! Thanks again to everyone for their help, advice and more, thanks, Rolando

[Kihon Kata]

Site Name: MakeupTalk.com
URL: www.MakeupTalk.com
Description: Created in August of 2003, Makeuptalk.com is for women(and some men) to chit-chat about their favorite subjects: makeup, skin care, hair care, bath/body care, health and fitness, sex, beauty coupons, jokes, hot deals, and more. MakeupTalk's active custom coded Product Review Center is busy with almost 12,300 beauty product reviews written. The interactive custom coded Swap Center is alive with over 2,600 active traders trading products into swaps! It all runs on a vB backend! Thanks vB! When we started it, I knew I had to have vB as my back end as it's truly the shining star of boards.

MakeupTalk.com is intended for women of all ages to exchange their beauty ideas and knowledge with other women around the world. With MakeupTalk, we can help each other and try to find solutions for the never ending questions about beauty, health and all the millions of products that are on the market. If you have already found some cool makeup products, makeup techniques, skin care ideas and fitness methods, that you know have helped you, please share it with the rest of us. Let’s also talk about the stuff that hasn’t worked that well so that we can prevent the disaster you went through happening to other women. Ladies of all ages, let’s get together and have some fun with our computers and get a real discussion going! Just click on any of the MakeupTalk.com categories to get started.

Reason for Nomination: One of the main reasons I would like to nominate www.Makeuptalk.com is the hard work of our board moderators/super moderators and Jr. admin. (I'm the admin). These volunteers work their little tails off! My Hat's off to them. Thanks Girls!

The site has blossomed in the past 2 years with over 753,000 posts, 43,000 threads and over 41,000 registered users! It sure has come alive in the past 2 years receiving over 2,500-4,000 posts/daily. We run approx 20-40 hacks that are available here on THE ORG. I want to take this time to personally thank many of the dedicated coders who release such excellent work to help boards like ours. Thank you very much!!!

Sorry if I rambled and sorry for the long read, but I really feel like it deserves a nomination.

[Code Monkey]

I want to second the following three.

The Armory
CameraZoo
MakeupTalk

laters

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by svtsnake01

Site Name: ModularFords
URL: http://www.modularfords.com/forums
Description: Discussion of Late Model Ford Performance
Reason for Nomination: Many changes to the default vBulletin design. Minimum of 50 new users per day.

Originally Posted by theodonnells

I Nominate
Site Name: Toonsunited.com
URL: http://www.toonsunited.com
Description: A Forum for all Toontown fans (Disney online game) with Toontown graphics and a cartoony feel.
Reason for Nomination: The spam bots seem to like it, and i was wondering if you guys do too.

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

Site Name: vBlogetin
URL: http://www.vblogetin.com/

Description: Support / Information site for vBlogetin (blog software)
Reason for Nomination: vBlogetin.com has a very heavily modified skin and tons of (home-made) modifications to vBulletin. We also have a friendly community and staff.

I second these three.

[aeroguy]

Site Name: Poker Bandits

URL: http://www.pokerbandits.ca

Description: A forum for US and Canadian poker enthusiasts.

Reason for Nomination: Nice design that features a custom modded homepage. Also features a friendly poker community.

[PoetJA-1975]

I'll second Modular Fords - very nice site - Very active site - Nicely designed!
http://www.modularfords.com/forums

I'll also second Camera Zoo - Nice default skin (love the colours) - nice modifications... I soooo want the weather mod from vBmodder :P
http://www.camerazoo.com

Congrats - AND good luck

Jacquii.

[Phooey]

I'd like to nominate my own forum. If you like what you see, please second the nomination!

Site Name: Digitally Wise
URL: www.DigitallyWise.com
Description: Reviews & discussion for the truly wise.
Reason for Nomination: The community has grown by leaps and bounds lately and I feel that it deserves a shot for BotM.

[Snake]

I will surely nominate this time!

Name: Final Fantasy Forums
URL: http://www.finalfantasyforums.net
Description: Community forums to discuss on the popular series of computer and console role-playing games produced by Square Enix including a massive MMORPG system!

[theodonnells]

Originally Posted by Snake

I will surely nominate this time!

Name: Final Fantasy Forums
URL: http://www.finalfantasyforums.net
Description: Community forums to discuss on the popular series of computer and console role-playing games produced by Square Enix including a massive MMORPG system!

I second this forum got to love the Rpg...

[ForumDog]

Site Name: DOGHOUSE

URL: http://doghouse.forumdog.com

Description: A forum about forums, aimed at promotion, review and building of communities rather than the more advanced modding side of things.

Reason for Nomination: Well, I'm afraid we don't have much of a super-dedicated community yet to plug, but we're hoping for one!

The forum is very highly customised featuring mods, mods of mods and plenty of Doghouse-only customisations. Some small touches like the combination post/thread/status icons (my personal favourite mod there, I know it's sad I just think it works really well) and section-specific favicons and some bigger modifications like the very-often-requested and soon-to-be-released-as-a-plugin Dogg post/thread voting which hides negatively rated posts and threads and was made especially for the site.

The theme(s, there are a few colours) are equally highly customised in a super-quick, super-clean style and almost entirely redone in places to fully optimise the vBulletin UI and usabilty in key locations. The postbit I personally like the most, it has been totally redesigned into a unique and again super-clean "comment" style appearance.

Long story short, it may not be an all-singing, all-dancing graphical explosion. But lots of effort was put into extensive improvements where it counts and I think the result is worth a nod. Ta for reading, hope someone appreciates it!