April BOTM Nominations

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April 2010.

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







Let me reiterate the rules for this thread:

• Only post nominations or seconds, no chatter.
• All seconds are to be placed in 1 post, with a max of 3.
• All seconds should include the word "second" or "+1".
• All posts must be in English.

Please abide by these rules or your post will be removed.



Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of April 2010.

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 Roms or an Administrator.

Best of luck to all nominees!

Semper Fi!

[MOGmartin]

Site Name: MOGmartin's SEO Forums

URL: SEOforums.org

Description: afairly new SEO forum, that I have developed 7 SEO plugins for. I have released the first three here on vb.org and as the board becomes more popular I will release the others. You can check out my MODs that were build for SEOforums.org and now released into the wild by clicking here...

Reason for Nomination: The massive SEO customisations done to the board, that have resulted in it ranking 2nd for "seo forum" after just three months from being setup, and already having well over a thousand unique visitors a day just from google organic. This board is truly an organic search marketing demonstration of intent.
I have:
* Hand built the theme,
* built custom plugins for SEO,
* built extensions for lots of other things I though necessary,
* built a wordpress theme around the vB template,
* built a custom SEO tools section as well.

[Ian Cunningham]

Site Name: Living Reefs

URL: www.livingreefs.com

Description: Reef Aquarium discussion forums, providing help and information to everything related to saltwater aquariums.

Reason for Nomination: This is a heavily customised vBulletin install, featuring many unique features:

• Custom coded CMS using vBulletin
• Species Database plugin created
• Custom designed template

Most importantly, we hope that Living Reefs is a friendly place to be, where all reef aquarium enthusiasts are able to ask questions and discuss the hobby, no matter what their experience level.

[raistlinthewiz]

Site Name: dvoturk.com

URL: http://www.dvoturk.com

Description: Turkish massive multiplayer gaming forum & site

Reason for Nomination: We incorporated our own CMS built on kohana framework on top of VB4 forums & cms. It fully integrates with VB4 cms, forums, a gallery script and a wiki script. There are more than +5000 members and the sites is around 6 months old.

[JacquiiDesigns]

I nominate both of my forums! Feel free to 2nd if you like

• Site Name: JPiC Forum For Writers
• URL: http://JPiCForum.info --- Forum Index: http://JPiCForum.info/index-1.php
• Description: Award-winning Poetry in Color Forum: The fastest growing online Community for Poets & Writers to freely share in the creation of literature.
• Reason for Nomination: We have a great little community. I'm hoping to start actively promote member participation again this year, as past months have been very slow. It's a nice forum - I like it anyway...

AND

• Site Name: WLS Journey Community Forums
• URL: http://WLSJourney.org --- Forum Index: http://WLSJourney.org/community-forums/index.php
• Description: An online support group for WLS post-ops and those seeking information about weight loss surgery. Post operative support system for Gastric Bypass, Lap Band, Duodenal Switch & Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy patients.
• Reason for Nomination: The Journey is a new online community/support system for WLS post-ops. I've started the promotion phase and hope to get the forum populated with posts this year. I love our WLS Article Depository which makes use of a modified vB.org modification Article Forums. It's a nice community - I like it anyway

[Switch3130]

Site Name: Wrestle Club Forums
URL: http://wrestleclubforums.com
Description: A wrestling forum bringing you the best wrestling discussion to the table.
Reason for Nomination: Customized skin for vB 4.0, and we look better than most 4.0 forums that I know of.

[TalkTemplate]

Site Name: TalkTemplate
URL: http://www.TalkTemplate.com
Description: User Based vBulletin Skin Forum and Marketplace.
Reason for Nomination: A great community filled with designers and forum owners. Several top VB.org Skins created by TalkTemplate.

[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by Switch3130

http://wrestleclubforums.com

um - you may want to re-read the 1st post and edit your nomination to include the template listed, unless you only wanted to post your site link and have it not considered for BOTM o.O

Jacquii.

[spipo]

Site Name: Maxi Console
Site URL: http://www.maxiconsole.com/forum.php
Description: Community forum about Video games and consoles
Reason for Nomination: wanted to have a good community about games and consoles which try to attract the maximum possible of gamers and take a place on games forum network .

[ChopSuey]

Originally Posted by JacquiiCooke

I nominate both of my forums! Feel free to 2nd if you like

• Site Name: JPiC Forum For Writers
• URL: http://JPiCForum.info --- Forum Index: http://JPiCForum.info/index-1.php
• Description: Award-winning Poetry in Color Forum: The fastest growing online Community for Poets & Writers to freely share in the creation of literature.
• Reason for Nomination: We have a great little community. I'm hoping to start actively promote member participation again this year, as past months have been very slow. It's a nice forum - I like it anyway...

AND

• Site Name: WLS Journey Community Forums
• URL: http://WLSJourney.org --- Forum Index: http://WLSJourney.org/community-forums/index.php
• Description: An online support group for WLS post-ops and those seeking information about weight loss surgery. Post operative support system for Gastric Bypass, Lap Band, Duodenal Switch & Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy patients.
• Reason for Nomination: The Journey is a new online community/support system for WLS post-ops. I've started the promotion phase and hope to get the forum populated with posts this year. I love our WLS Article Depository which makes use of a modified vB.org modification Article Forums. It's a nice community - I like it anyway

I ChopSuey, second both of them. :up: