[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!

[Qwest]

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Site Name: ZuneUser
URL: www.ZuneUser.com
Description: Product support and general discussion for the Microsoft Zune media player!
Reason for Nomination: It's the best in it's niche. No ego intended here. I say that because when I built the forum that was my full intention. To be better than all the not well put together zune forums out there. It's one of the newest Zune communites but gaining ground fast.

FEATURES:
Awesome postbit display: http://www.zuneuser.com/forums/new-u...o-all-stl.html
Mood Hack
Thanks Hack
FREE Image Hosting
Arcade
Articles / Reviews / Tutorials - Sections (GARS)
vBSEO
Myspace Profiles (with comments) (will be installed today, already paid coder)

Most of the other Zune sites don't even use vbulletin. Looking for our first award

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[wtricks]

Site Name: Webmaster Tips & Tricks
URL: www.wtricks.com
Description: A webmaster community with unique articles and tutorials, free exclusive downloads (forum themes, graphics) and topics about everything related to web design and development.
Reason for Nomination: It's a vBulletin board with an unique layout (I have change almost everything in it), with over 20 modifications installed (Automatic Welcome PM, DownloadsII, Extended Signature Limits, Last XX Threads + Posts in UserCP, Members who have visited the forum, Thread Description and some more)

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by soletrader

Site Name: Traders Laboratory

URL: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/

Description: Financial forum for traders and active investors. We focus on futures, stocks, option, and forex.

Reason: We have taken a different approach in starting a forum. Our initial goal was to make our site more than a forum and interactive as possible. We feature articles sections, charts, videos, and chat rooms. We also host live chat seminars on trading. We have recently partnered up with a financial news firm and interviews can be streamed via our site through our audio player.

This is my first forum and website ever. I managed to make it without any coding knowledge so still shocked how I came up this far. We have managed to reach the 1,000 member mark this month within 5 months of launch. We are a revenue sharing board with adsense and also through amazon for those who write book reviews.

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 2nd these 3, great sites

[eNtitY~]

I second vBlogetin.com

[storpappa]

Site Name: GameGeekSpeak
URL: http://gamegeekspeak.com/

Description: Gamers community board offering podcasts, discussions, news, interviews and contests. The community support allows for hosted guilds which get forums, calendars and teamspeak all at no costs and ad free. Finally, the community donations are used to fund contests, game servers for sponsored clans and reimburse staff their monthly MMO fees as a reward for their contributions.

Reason for Nomination: After the past 3 years running sites on DotNetNuke and CommunityServer, I can tell you just how much better vBulletin is for someone new to vBulletin, this community and LAMP.

This site is up as of today for 3 weeks, is heading towards 3000 posts and is running all of the bells and whistles that make for a great, fun vBulletin community. The ease at which you can use the resources of vBulletin and the vBulletin community today to get not just up and running, but running huge is amazing. Integration out of the box and via mods and hacks is amazing.

Podcasts: I let my goal of podcasts go for over a year because the prior forums I worked with had no support, then when it came out, it was just horrible.
Photo Gallery: Can you imagine my joy at being able to actually move pictures, rename them and delete them?
Stats: You mean I don't need to manually run SQL reports, the forums have it already?
RSS feeds to populate forums: What, you mean I dont need to mnaully copy past in news items.

CommunityServer has no Community in it. Just broken features, lack of support, no mods, hacks and barely visible add-ons. Yet core features of the product just do not work. Get hit by SPAM? Check of the box hide this users posts. Then find out that a key feature in the base UI does nothing. And when you post about it, the CS community is not shocked or suprised.

So, GameGeekSpeak is running, and after working with different forums and software products for years, I cannot express how much I wish I had gone to vBulletin from the beginning. Thank you all for everything.

But what makes it the BOTM is how easy it ease to get all this going, and it all works and is rock solid. The bonus to this as a BOTM is my personal experience and frustrations with vBulletins competitors and a final remark, "Go vBulletin and have zero regrets."

[Skaterscafe.com]

Site Name: Skaters Cafe

URL: http://www.skaterscafe.com

Description: Skaters Cafe is a website for skateboarders.

Reason for Nomination: Skaterscafe.com is a website ran by and staffed by skateboarders. While most are teens the site runs smoothly, has a nice "community" feel, and nice features/layout. Skaterscafe was started in 2004 and now has 8200+ members, and almost 400,000 post. The site offers members many features, is easy to navagate, and is staffed my members from 6 countries.

Personally...I'm proud that a site composed mostly of kids can run as smoothly as this site has.

[Xoligy]

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.

Agreed. Got my vote.

[JamesN]

Site Name: Cricket Web
URL: www.cricketweb.net/forum/
Description: A forum dedicated to the great game of cricket.
Reason for Nomination: Cricket Web and the forum have been around since October 2001, and we recently became the first cricketing forum on the internet to reach 1 million posts and are looking into new ways of getting our site noticed by the general sporting community, and this seemed like a good start.

One thing you'll notice in regard to our vBulletin installation is that we've changed a lot of icons to make them cricket related

[BioWaffen]

Site Name: SpaceChess
URL: http://www.spacechess.de
Description: SpaceChess is a Forum for all chess players!
Reason for Nomination: This Forum exists since September, and we have now already more than 400 Users! You can play chess there, discuss about chess and many other features!

[Chris 96 WS6]

Site Name: LS1LT1.com Performance Forums
URL: http://www.ls1lt1.com
Description: Automotive niche forum focusing on late model GM performance cars (Camaro, Firebird, Corvette, etc.)
Reason for Nomination: Since inception on August 1, 2005, we've grown to almost 2,700 members. We have 26 direct business sponsorships displayed through an extensive phpadsnew integration. I think the site is deserving of nomination because we've managed to grow very quickly in what is a really competitive niche.