[April / May 2009] BOTM Nomination Thread

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April / May 2009.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of March 2009.

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.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to King Kovifor or an administrator.

Best of luck to all nominees!

[concepts]

Originally Posted by nando99

Site Name:
Fat Boy Magazine
URL:
http://www.fatboymag.com
Description:
Men's entertainment. Hot girls (no nudity), funny videos, funny pictures, jokes, movies, sports, MMA, poker and you get the point... my favorite way to describe it: It's like guys shooting the sh!t over a beer... online.
Reason for Nomination:
It's more then a forum, more then a site - it's members call it home. The whole site runs on Vbulletin, its extremely customized.

seconded--ed-ed-- lol

AMAZING SITE!

[fly4food84]

Site Name: Pilot Buzz
URL: http://www.pilotbuzz.com
Description: A brand new community for aviation professionals.
Reason for Nomination: The community's theme suits it well, graphics are fantastic.

[nfn]

Site Name: Portal das Viagens
URL: http://www.portaldasviagens.com
Description: Portuguese Language Travel Forum
Reason for Nomination: A nice and simple community with a special taste for traveling!

[droid101]

Site Name: Constant Cognizance
URL: www.constantcognizance.com
Description: A small discussion board with all sorts of add ons and custom themes.
Reason for Nomination: Most of the custom styles are created by a member, and they're all pretty slick and professional looking, especially the "FreeMind" theme. All modifications and hacks installed are seemless and all users are extremely happy with the content. It is a small, close knit community with tons of funny stuff and asshattery galore.

[concepts]

Site Name:
Urban Artists United
URL: http://www.UrbanAU.com
Description:
Music, Modeling, Muscle Cars, and Events! A site primarily based around our offline Company "The UAUGroup" dealing with modeling management, GoGo, Fashion SHows, Events and More..
Reason for Nomination:
Its an amazing site sticking to the core of the vBulletin Design, but styled enough to attract even avid vBulletin users.

[cionfs]

Site Name: Cionfs'Forum CMS
URL: http://www.cionfs.it/forum/
Description: Italian support for CMS
Reason for Nomination: Support is given to all CMS. In particular, vBulletin, WordPress and ZenCart. Not lack of support for all other CMS.

[bbcentral]

Site Name: Blues Brothers Central (The Soul Food Cafe Forum)
URL: http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/
Description: The forum for Blues Brothers Central, based on the Soul Food Cafe in the Blues Brothers Movie
Reason for Nomination: The forum has a heavily customized theme (created by myself), with original artwork/graphics. It completely fits in with the topic of the site ("The Blues Brothers"), and it's instantly recognizable by fans.

The forum uses vBSEO to boost loading speed, it gets a lot of traffic from Google searches looking for information from the movie. It's important that those people can get the information they need without being forced to register, or wait for a slow page covered in advertising to load.

It has customized icons for each forum, as well as a Games Arcade and Chatroom ("Bob's Country Bunker"). The forum is well moderated and maintained, and there has always been a great sense of community amongst the members.

The advertising is relatively low, and much of it only displays to unregistered members.

There's still plenty of work to be done, the main website is 95% rebuilt (from scratch) and will integrate much closer with the forum. The last 5 threads will be displayed on the homepage, and related threads will display on other pages throughout the site (ie Dan Aykroyd's page will show the last 5 threads in the Dan Aykroyd forum, and so on).

[GeorgiaOutdoors]

Site Name: GeorgiaOutdoors
URL: www.georgiaoutdoors.info
Description: dedicated to all outdoor activities in Georgia. Learn about outdoor activities and view listings of outdoor service
Reason for Nomination: We love what vbulletin does for us, it brings alot of local outdoor enthusiasts together as a community

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by fly4food84

Site Name: Pilot Buzz
URL: http://www.pilotbuzz.com
Description: A brand new community for aviation professionals.
Reason for Nomination: The community's theme suits it well, graphics are fantastic.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaOutdoors

Site Name: GeorgiaOutdoors
URL: www.georgiaoutdoors.info
Description: dedicated to all outdoor activities in Georgia. Learn about outdoor activities and view listings of outdoor service
Reason for Nomination: We love what vbulletin does for us, it brings alot of local outdoor enthusiasts together as a community

I'm seconding these two sites.

[pooker]

Site Name: Anime Addicted
URL: http://www.animeaddicted.com
[B]Description:[/B A site dedicated to the discussion of anime and manga.
Reason For Nomination: Our site is completely custom. Our main page was coded in php by me and integrated with vbulletin. The main page is http://www.animeaddicted.com/demosite/. Along with a custom design; To this date I am the only person I know of that has incorporated a Manga Reader into vbulletin. You can view our manga reader at http://www.animeaddicted.com/forums/test.php.