June / July BotM Nominations

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of June / July 2009.

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

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of July 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!

[Skierpetros]

Site Name: Greek-Chater.com
URL: www.greek-chater.com
Description: The Ultimate Greek Community
Reason for Nomination: A new site that would be the center of greek internet in the future...

[pjdbm]

Site Name: Copier Talk
URL: www.copiertalk.com
Description: Office Equipment Repair Forum
Reason for Nomination: This is the fastest growing Copier Repair and business machine
service site on the internet. Here you will find advanced support for any manufacture in
business machines backed by certified technicians.The owner is constantly bringing the
forum to the cutting edge with the latest and the greatest that VBulletin has to offer.
With nearly 3,000 members and growing all the time, this will be a hot spot for anyone in
our industry. Incorporated in this forum is a shout Box, an Arcade, great Graphics, Detailed
Photo illustration for step by step repair and some of the friendliest Administrators I have
ever seen in any forums.

[lstintxs100]

Originally Posted by pjdbm

Site Name: Copier Talk
URL: www.copiertalk.com
Description: Office Equipment Repair Forum
Reason for Nomination: This is the fastest growing Copier Repair and business machine
service site on the internet. Here you will find advanced support for any manufacture in
business machines backed by certified technicians.The owner is constantly bringing the
forum to the cutting edge with the latest and the greatest that VBulletin has to offer.
With nearly 3,000 members and growing all the time, this will be a hot spot for anyone in
our industry. Incorporated in this forum is a shout Box, an Arcade, great Graphics, Detailed
Photo illustration for step by step repair and some of the friendliest Administrators I have
ever seen in any forums.

I second this nomination.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by pjdbm

Site Name: Copier Talk
URL: www.copiertalk.com
Description: Office Equipment Repair Forum
Reason for Nomination: This is the fastest growing Copier Repair and business machine
service site on the internet. Here you will find advanced support for any manufacture in
business machines backed by certified technicians.The owner is constantly bringing the
forum to the cutting edge with the latest and the greatest that VBulletin has to offer.
With nearly 3,000 members and growing all the time, this will be a hot spot for anyone in
our industry. Incorporated in this forum is a shout Box, an Arcade, great Graphics, Detailed
Photo illustration for step by step repair and some of the friendliest Administrators I have
ever seen in any forums.

I third this nomination.

[K2_02]

Originally Posted by rockinaway

Site Name: AdminFuel
URL: www.adminfuel.com
Description: AdminFuel is a forum providing resources, knowledge and experience to forum administrators.

Reason for Nomination:

• The forum is heavily customised, incorporating a sidebar as well as many other extras
• The style has been customised to make the forum unique in more than one way
• We have jumped into, what would seem, a crowded niche but we are still successful
• A vast number of resources for forum administrators, of any experience, to use
• Advice for all the administrators with engaging and fresh discussions
• A functioning articles area and directory, with a forum matrix soon to be added
• Provide in depth and expert reviews for forum administrators
• Active connection with Facebook as well as many other handy modifications implemented
• We are friendly and welcoming community, happy to see new members

I third this site. Good work.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by K2_02

I third this site. Good work.

it is an excellent site.

[ibautocommunity]

Site Name: AudiWorld.com
URL: forums.audiworld.com
Description: AudiWorld.com Audi Enthusiast Website
Reason for Nomination:

• Over 160,000 members
• More than 23,000,000 posts!
• Custom Threaded Mode; threaded posts even on Forumdisplay.php
• Custom Garage script for members integrated into vbulletin albums system
• Customized style and icons

[1Unreal]

Site Name: The Flick Zone
URL: http://www.theflickzone.com
Description: A discussion site for movies and TV shows
Reason for Nomination: I think it looks great and shows how well vBulletin can be put to good use

[PokerAffiliate]

Site Name: PokerAffiliateListings.com
URL: http://www.PokerAffiliateListings.com
Description: The World's Largest Poker Affiliate Community
Reason for Nomination:

* Became the poker affiliate industries largest webmaster community in only 6 months
* customized style, layout, and design
* customized advertising and review modules
* full time vbulletin coder on staff
* Customized style and icons

[Spikeman]

Originally Posted by 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).

+1 cool site