[October/November 2008] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of October/November 2008.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 30th of September 2008.

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!

[soletrader]

Site Name: TradersLaboratory.com
URL: www.traderslaboratory.com
Description: Forum dedicated to financial traders covering stocks, currencies, options, and futures.
Reason for Nomination: Heavily customized. See you for yourself

[Inzvestor]

Originally Posted by mikesharp

Site Name: OrganicLinker.com
URL: www.organiclinker.com/forums
Description: Site dedicated to all things Organic, Eco Friendly and Environmentally aware, chat with friends and share hints and tips
Reason for Nomination: Nice site integration, forum fits perfectly with the community feel of the site

Thirded - Great site ! :up:

[Markos]

Site Name:The Scottish Exotic Reptile Forums
URL:http://www.the-scottish-exotic-reptile-forums.co.uk
Description:this forum is for all reptile lovers and all pets u can think of
Reason for Nomination: informative and friendly likeable people

[flipstyle]

Site Name: MyNGE (My New Generation Entertainment)

URL: www.mynge.com

Description: This website is a brand new community focused on all aspects of entertainment. Our site includes some of the following forums: Art, Games, Music, Rides, Sports and the list goes on. Although it seems that our site is solely focused on entertainment, there is another side to MyNGE: Business. Our community is also aimed to attract all businesses in the entertainment industry. The forums can be used to sell, buy and to promote their products and services. Members of the site are also able to search for career opportunities. Businesses on the other hand are able to network through the convenience of the forums, while investors have the ability to discover clients.

Reason for Nomination: Our goal is to present a website that will keep everyone from every genre of entertainment interested and satisfied. Whether it is an athlete who has a passion for art, or a mechanic who is interested in the world of fashion, MyNGE is the community where one has it all.

[Wazran]

Hey, I'd like to nominate my forum.

Site Name: SimpsonsFF
URL: SimpsonsFF.com
Description: A forum dedicated to the hit TV show, The Simpsons.
Reason for Nomination: I believe we have potential. With over 10,000 posts in less then a week. I think we should be accepted because it'd help promote but also to show what forums really can do.

Originally Posted by nexialys
Site Name: THC Farmer
URL: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/
Description: Marijuana Growing Forum.
Reason for Nomination:
my job on that site was to debug the existing engines, take a style from a uncoded .psd file, and make it a complete high-quality design, with transparent images (the header is quite transparent)... CSS3 and XHTML techniques for the style itself, coordonance of the style with the vBulletin structure, and a lot of CSS enhancements to replace the icons. all images created are .jpg or .png, to fit with the non-usage of .gif.

Do not judge the content of the forum. Judge the usage of the scripts, like the CoffeeShop Reviews, the Guides and FAQs...

[legionofangels]

Originally Posted by GoldenChaos

Site Name: Zelda Universe
URL: http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/

Description: The Zelda Universe main site is the definitive resource for everything about The Legend of Zelda. It's got more content than any other fansite, and reports on the most news. We're constantly updating pages with the highest resolution artwork we can find, and continually updating our guides and pages with more detailed information on every Zelda game. But this is more about the forums.

The Zelda Universe forums make up the largest Zelda community on the internet - and it's a really tightly knit community. The site is entirely fan-run, and the forums are no different; ZU has been a member of the gaming site scene since 2001, but only recently has it undergone an immense transformation in design and direction. Previous owners who were not me tried to rid Zelda Universe of its fan-run heritage, but I brought that back in full swing, and I daresay that now ZU is better than ever. It's something to be proud of.

It took ten months to create the new design you see for the forums and for the main site, which is powered by Wordpress. I brought in a professional designer and worked my butt off with the rest of the ZU staff and community to give the place something that would last for years and establish ZU as the most serious fan site around - a fan site that not only has an immense love for the game it focuses on, in ZU's case the Legend of Zelda series, but an immense love for its visitors and its community. And ZU's community is unmatched. The community is the reason why I took the wheel from prior owners - as a member and webmaster of ZU for four years, the community is priceless. What the other owners wanted is paltry to me; and that means the rest of ZU's helpful staff can now do whatever they want, pretty much uninhibited.

That said, they're some of the nicest people you'll ever meet, and they're always willing to help other people out. Their work ethic is incredible, and the work ethic of the community - the ethic to build a better community atop the current one - is mind-boggling. I am continually stunned by my own site, and by ZU's members' love for both the Zelda series and its incredible community.

Reason for Nomination: I think that this community is something that should be honored - not just because of the incredible new design that myself and Anton Wiklund, its designer, worked on for months, and that ZU's webmaster and administrator Scott and Derek coded for more months, but because the community is not something to scoff at. It's well established and friendly and welcoming, and it's my hope that the new design serves as a message to all of ZU's members, one that says how much the community is worth to me, that I will go to any lengths to help the community better itself, as will its staff. The new design, which features a customized User Control Panel, Profile Page and Postbit, should only complement ZU's pride as what I consider the most amazing online community in the world.

In addition, members have come together and produced a community podcast which is now featured on the main site. We have forums for welcoming new members, and we have forums for getting people involved in community projects. Naturally, there are a million forums for discussing Zelda, but truly Zelda talk isn't even a taste of the ZU community. Through ZU, and through these boards, friendships have been forged, relationships begun, marriages have occurred between members. They were all originally brought together by Zelda, but in the end it was the Zelda community that really tied the knot - not the games themselves. And now they've got what I consider one of the best, most beautiful, and most customized forum designs on the internet to show for it.

I am infinitely proud of the ZU forums, and the ZU site as a whole, and couldn't be more ecstatic to be its webmaster and owner. It's my hope, and my dream, that other people will find cause to be proud of it as well - both as a fan of Zelda, and as a fan of friendships.

Thanks for even considering Zelda Universe. We all work hard.
~ Jason Rappaport.

This is just gorgeous design work. I'm impressed to hell.

Seconded.

[logicuk]

Originally Posted by nexialys

Originally Posted by nexialys
Site Name: THC Farmer
URL: http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/
Description: Marijuana Growing Forum.
Reason for Nomination:
my job on that site was to debug the existing engines, take a style from a uncoded .psd file, and make it a complete high-quality design, with transparent images (the header is quite transparent)... CSS3 and XHTML techniques for the style itself, coordonance of the style with the vBulletin structure, and a lot of CSS enhancements to replace the icons. all images created are .jpg or .png, to fit with the non-usage of .gif.

Do not judge the content of the forum. Judge the usage of the scripts, like the CoffeeShop Reviews, the Guides and FAQs...

I 2nd this site also, great work on the coding nex

[M-Tuning]

Site Name: PSP-Media.nl
URL: www.PSP-Media.nl
Description: A forum dedicated to the Sony PSP, you can find all info about homebrew and custom firmware on the site in dutch.
Reason for Nomination: We almost have 35.000 members, and I just finished the new layout for the site which you can see when you click the link.

[BeFit4Free]

Site Name: BeFit4Free Health and Fitness Forums

URL: http://www.befit4free.net

Description: Free Health and Fitness Forum where people can discuss weight loss, bodybuilding, alternative medicine and basically anything related to fitness.

Reason for Nomination: BeFit4Free exists to give the Average Joe a way to get motivated and learn proper exercise technique as well as discuss weight loss, exercise, diet tips and anything else that might be holding them back from getting healthy.

Not only do we offer FREE advice and also shoot our own personal training videos to teach people proper exercise form, but we are also sponsoring 2 MMA Fighters (Duane Ludwig and Alvin Robinson) to help spread the word and get more people involved in health and fitness.

We'd love to be nominated for Board of the Month because it will help even more people discover our site and allow them to get in shape!

We display random pictures of the newest weight loss and bodybuilding members each time you log in, and we've already had members lose over 20 pounds!