[June/July 2008] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of June 2008.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of May

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:

Quote:
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.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Danny.VBT.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[l SKN l CHRIS]

Originally Posted by afterlab

I'd like to throw my name into June's running. All the best everyone.

Site Name: Gamertag Nation
URL: www.gamertagnation.com
Description: An openly free gaming resource and community for Xbox 360 games and their players. Players can integrate their Xbox 360 gamertag with their Gamertag Nation account for a new level of community gaming.

Reason for Nomination:

• Completely redesigned and unique interface for vBulletin. Almost makes it seem like we're not even a vBulletin forum.
• Custom coded with 100% exclusive modifications.
  
• A RSS news poster which can be sorted by date and source. (not posting to threads/posts) News reader can also be customized per user.
• Custom coded Xbox Live Gamertag-integration.
• A customizable user feed which updates the user on friend and own account updates.
• Users can acquire ornaments/achievements for their account by doing tasks on our website or on Xbox Live.
  
• Twitter integration in user profiles.
• A complete gaming directory which allows users to post reviews, guides and discussions on each Xbox 360 game.
  

Wanna fool around? Login...
Username: Beta
Password: password

seconded

Originally Posted by Asterik

Site Name: Programmers' Forums
URL: http://www.programmersforums.com
Description: A Site dedicated to helping the programmer with his questions, comments, and concerns. A small community that has a passion for what they do. We also sport an Articles / Tutorials section for user submitted content. Again, a small, tight-knit community helping everyone.

Reason for Nomination: A Great site, great forum, and a great community.

seconded

Originally Posted by StonePilot

Site Name: GMTruckClub
URL: www.gmtruckclub.com
Description: Chevy and GMC Truck website
Reason for Nomination:

• GMTruckClub.com has grown consistently over the past 4 years to become a leading auto website for Chevy and GMC trucks.

• It's consistently ranked highly in the search engines and earns 400+ new members monthly. Through the native power of vBulletin, the site has earned top 5 SERPs for major keywords.

• Best of all, its a great resource to get questions answered - a great community atmosphere. Auto enthusiasts helping other enthusasts ... drama free too.

seconded

[feverinlove]

Site Name: TurboFSI.net Audi Club Turkey
URL: http://www.turbofsi.net/forum
Description: Audi Owners Club in Turkey
Reason for Nomination:

We have just imported from XMBForum to VBulletin and we are redesigning the forum as we go. We like to keep the simplicity and the overall look of the forum. So we have minimal design changes. When the forum icons are redesigned, the forum will have a better look for sure.

[voteforbird]

Site Name: Volconvo Debate Forums

URL: volconvo.com

Description: Volconvo is an active debate forum and blog network for the discussion of political, religious and news-based topics.

Reason for Nomination: High quality community, active boards, professional design, unique and controversial topics, pertinence in current events.

Other: While many forum owners display high post counts prominently and pride themselves on the quantitative aspect of the community, I feel it's the qualitative aspect—the thoroughly researched and critically processed information—that makes Volconvo stand out. Our members are talented at what they do. That's not to say the forum is small. (This week it should surpass the 500,000 post mark.) But, at Volconvo we're about content.

[koolfire]

Site Name: CricDownloads - All the Downloads of Cricket

URL: www.cricdownloads.com

Description: The home of all cricket lovers who love downloading high quality cricket media!

Design and Layout:-
CricDownloads layout, navigation and the way of content arranging is really catchy in order to make the user get what he wants and its really customized by me to suit forum needs. Every page has something diffrent which no forum in the world has because i love uniqueness

Content and Relevancy:-
I believe that Content is everything. CricDownloads offers all the users who do not have access to TV or are at work etc to watch cricket highlights of all games, cricket videos and discuss with people from around the world...

Keeping it Clean and Beautiful:-
Keeping colors bright, simple and soothing to eyes and mind. Thus, keeping visitors stay longer and not annoying them to death.

Its passed just 1 and half months since I have bought the license and have already put in so many efforts day and night in understanding vBulletin and customizing according to user's needs. However, the community is still lacking its activeness but already have over 3450 members in 2 months and growing rapidly. I had the same site long before so have the backup of these [3450] users.. You may see really less people active because no one yet knows the site is BACK. I will let them know soon... thus proving CricDownloads having a great potential. This time its a complete new unique design definitely hoping to get nominated...

You can even login at CricDownloads and view some stuff personally..
Username: test1
Password : vbulletin

Thank You

Screenshots are attached..

[3arab-hero]

Site Name: shbtop forums
URL: www.shbtop.com/vb
Description: General Arabic Forum
Reason for Nomination: For the Design of the template And the Speed Of Forums.

[blastup]

Site Name: MillionWebmasters

URL: http://www.millionwebmasters.com

Description: A Webmasters Forum and Blog discussing Domains,Web Hosting,Coding,
Designing,Seo Affiliate Marketing and how to Make Money Online.

Reason for Nomination: Why should we be nominated? Because ...

• We feel We have the Best Webmasters Forum with the fullest potential.
• The Best and Cleanest Design Compared with the rest of Webmasters Forums, We Definitely crushed them
• We have a Blog, Scripts and Designs Section featuring many great content.
• Users could even Submit News, Scripts and Designs to share with people.
• Overall We are the best Webmasters forum who will help anyone make money online.

Please Nominate Us! Vbulletin Rocks!!!
our website wouldn't be so great with out your Great Software. Thank You:up::up::up:

[Lucas]

Site Name: ThisFreelance

URL: http://www.thisfreelance.com

Description: A professional freelancing community. Aiming to assist, innovate and bring to life amazing people with great designing, coding and business skills together as well as providing them a place to learn from the best.

Reason for Nomination: We believe we should be nominated because...

• ThisFreelance, aims to provide the information and tools necessary to gain an initial step into the freelance industry.
• The community base, a diverse, helpful, knowledgeable, and professional group, provides sheer enjoyment.
• It has a completely unique design.
• Everyone wants to be part of it!
• It simply rocks.

Thanks in advance for any nominations we receive.

[Loget]

Nintendo-forum.net

A multi gaming forum I will be purchasing a new domain for it soon. Great skin this site is totally amazing.

[8bit]

Site Name: Ginrei Network Community Forum
URL: http://www.ginreinetwork.com/forum/
Description: Ginrei Network is a website dedicated to anime, manga and the like.
Reason for Nomination:

• As far as design goes, it's 1 sexy beast. Your eyes will thank you later.
• It has a lot of potential to become something huge. I FEEL IT. DO YOU?!
• It doesn't run on vBAdvanced or vBSEO (absolutely no disrespect to those that do). Basically it's not the same forum you've seen time and time again.
• It's not cluttered. We didn't install countless hacks that are not needed. It still runs very much like a default vBulletin installation.
• Everyone (all 4 of us, yes) jokes around. It's not a board with many rules. We like to set the tone very lightly.
• Time well spent? I think so.

Please vote for us!! This type of exposure will help liven up the place. There's only so much you can do with less than 10 members. LOL. Mamma mia.

[pcoskat]

Originally Posted by afterlab

[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]I'd like to throw my name into June's running. All the best everyone.

Site Name: Gamertag Nation
URL: www.gamertagnation.com
Description: An openly free gaming resource and community for Xbox 360 games and their players. Players can integrate their Xbox 360 gamertag with their Gamertag Nation account for a new level of community gaming.

I second this!

Very innovative use of vB!:up: