Nominate your favorite board for vB Board of the Month - February

[s.molinari]

Hi yall!

Let's get rolling for Feb.:)

BTW, we will be having our first vB BotM of the Year for 2005. So keep a look out for the upcoming poll!:D

Scott

p.s. For those new to the contest, please read the guide lines (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108202)thoroughly. Thanks.

[filburt1]

I nominate my site, Web Design Forums.net (version 5).

Forum Home (http://www.webdesignforums.net/forumhome.php?)
Today at WDF (http://www.webdesignforums.net/index.php?)

I completed this upgrade December 31, 2005. It was in development since February 2005 and is the 14th of all the internally-considered design candidates. What makes WDF unique from other vBulletin installations?

Dramatically updated style. The most obvious change is the altered style. It is designed to be visually attractive, rely heavily on CSS, and put important information in accessible areas. The top of the page received considerable attention; a main goal was to create a very attractive header that didn't consume so much space that it pushed the rest of the content down. If you're a WDFplus member, you don't see the AdSense ad, making the header even lower-profile. There are also tweaks like unread PM counts showing up next to the Private Messages link and a search field on every page--without the need to click to find it first.
W3C compliancy. Every page on WDF v5 is W3C compliant in terms of markup (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) and style (CSS versions 1 to 3). Standards compliance is important and forces browser developers to provide a uniform rendering model for pages.
Improved stock features. Reputation is one greatly enhanced feature. You don't need to leave a comment at all in most cases for leaving reputation; just click a button and it immediately applies it for that post. Reputation data is aggregated and provided as a summary of the user's reputation; for example: http://www.webdesignforums.net/wdf_viewreputation.php?u=1 . The private messaging user interface was updated to greatly increase its understandibility (be honest: how many of you actually knew what that psuedo-progress bar meant at first?). The WYSIWYG editor's interface was cleaned up and even takes on the colors of the user's system, making it appear to be a system component rather than a web page component. There are countless other improvements; browse around to see updated forumdisplay, forumhome, showthread, postbit, and other templates that were rewritten 100% from scratch.
Completely new features. WDF v5 introduces many completely original features. Just a few of them:
The WDF Notifier and Notifications: Available to WDFplus members, an application for Windows 2000 and XP sits in your system tray, quietly listening for events on WDF. When one occurs (for example, a new private message or announcement), a balloon pops up with clear details. Clicking the balloon opens your browser to the appropriate page for details. Learn more (http://www.webdesignforums.net/wdf_notifs_about.php). Screenshot:

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RSS feeds. The feed aggregator is completely rewritten. It now generates RSS 2.0-compliant feeds for not only specific forums and the entire site, but also for individual threads. Post contents are displayed in the description rather than statistics. The RSS feeds are generated using domxml (for PHP 4) and dom (for PHP 5).
Site of the Month. A fully automated "Site of the Month" contest has been developed. Users can submit sites of their own creations, moderators approve or reject them, and members vote for them. The system automatically determines the winner at the end of the month, restarts the contest, and puts the winner on WDF's home page for the next month. [URL="http://www.webdesignforums.net/wdf_sotm.php"]Learn more (http://www.webdesignforums.net/images/notifier-big.jpg).
Today at WDF. When you first visit WDF's home page (http://www.webdesignforums.net/), you see "Today at WDF." First and foremost, don't think of it as a portal. Instead, it displays today's (and the current time's) notable discussions, including "Today's Featured Posts" as selected by moderators, recently posted unanswered questions, an overview of your reputation, and other information such as site-wide statistics. There is a very clearly-labeled "Enter the Discussion Area" link provided at the top of the page.
How's My Site?. WDF has a forum named How's My Site (http://www.webdesignforums.net/amp_quot_hows_my_siteamp_quot__86/) where users post threads asking for reviews of their site. Previously, users were asked to rate sites using the thread rating system, but this didn't give a fine level of detail. Users would also forget to add their site's URL. The new system provides ratings on five separate criteria, links to W3C validation services, and still allows users to comment via replies. Adding a site URL is also enforced to users can't forget to add their URLs. The information is aggregated both on the page itself and on forumdisplay on a normal 1 to 5 star rating.
Search engine optimization. At the end of every page generation, a script searches the page for thread and forum links, and converts them into a flat file emulated format. Threads become prefixed with their forum name, and all URLs then end with ".html" to trick some search engines that the page is static, not dynamic. The great part is that no effort is required to make these links. Simply outputting showthread.php?t= and forumdisplay.php?f= is sufficient; the script will convert links by itself.
...and much more. The WDF v5 upgrade is the result of over 11 months of work. Browse around, and you'll see something new every time.Did I mention that not one vBulletin file has been edited?

[pspcrazy]

pspcrazy , i nominate my site!
http://forums.pspcrazy.com/forums/

Integration with frames and all is not done yet and that will be my next project after i complete the front page.

why: I love my site, its so pretty rofl. I like it and thats why i nominate it.

[pspcrazy]

filburt i got to second your site, wow.

[ewebtalk]

I would like to nominate http://www.ewebtalk.com

[McJ]

I'd like to nominated www.tombraiderforums.com (http://www.tombraiderforums.com)

We've completely ported in almost 600,000 posts and 16,000 member records from our old forum software and are absolutely delighted with vB.

It's like Christmas, every day :D

[Lizard King]

I would like to nominate http://www.ewebtalk.com
I will second ewebtalk.com and want to nominate my site http://www.ayyas.com/forum.html

If you check our board you can see that our style is heavliy customized. Our arcade section gallery section are all customized to match our style.
We have different section in our board which totally change the look of vBulletin :
Echoes (http://www.ayyas.com/echoes/)
Beyin Fırtınası (http://www.ayyas.com/beyin-firtinasi/)
Album Incelemeleri (http://www.ayyas.com/album-incelemeleri/)
Music Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/biyografiler/)
Writer Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/murekkep-hokkasi/)
Image Gallery (http://www.ayyas.com/galeri/)
Arcade (http://www.ayyas.com/oyunlar.html)
Homepage (http://www.ayyas.com/)

We tried to keep clean look in our board and easy usage by members.
We currently have vbseo , vbadvanced cmps , geek article and review system , geek autolink pro , vbshout , photopost vbgallery and couple more hacks installed.

[concepts]

filburt i got to second your site, wow.

I THIRD it? haha
great design...


I also nominate.. www.UrbanAU.com (http://www.UrbanAU.com)
SITE FOR URBAN FASHION, STYLE, ENTERTAINMENT and HIPHOP!

[ewebtalk]

I will second ewebtalk.com and want to nominate my site http://www.ayyas.com/forum.html

If you check our board you can see that our style is heavliy customized. Our arcade section gallery section are all customized to match our style.
We have different section in our board which totally change the look of vBulletin :
Echoes (http://www.ayyas.com/echoes/)
Beyin Fırtınası (http://www.ayyas.com/beyin-firtinasi/)
Album Incelemeleri (http://www.ayyas.com/album-incelemeleri/)
Music Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/biyografiler/)
Writer Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/murekkep-hokkasi/)
Image Gallery (http://www.ayyas.com/galeri/)
Arcade (http://www.ayyas.com/oyunlar.html)
Homepage (http://www.ayyas.com/)

We tried to keep clean look in our board and easy usage by members.
We currently have vbseo , vbadvanced cmps , geek article and review system , geek autolink pro , vbshout , photopost vbgallery and couple more hacks installed.

Thanks man, good luck :D

[wnxwakko]

I nominate my own board.
http://www.warriornation.net/Forum/index.php

Current Version 3.5.3

Theme
Gaming! This is a pure gaming clan. Warrior Nation has been around since 1998, running boards since 2001 and running VB since 2003. We have a strict ranking system, strict rule system. I have 32 Adminstrators and 40 Elite Mod type ranks who all work together as a huge team keeping this place going. We practice being respectful, we do not tolerate outlashing, poor behavior and so on, so we try very hard to teach out members how to be good people. I'd like to think we actually team them life skills as some have thanks us for doing in the past.

Activity
Very high. I delete all accounts that are inactive for 75 days. This keeps people active and posting. My active meter is set to 30days and 80% of the actual registrations are active. I usually have 100+ members online 24 hours a day. Peak times everyday I see 180+ members and 250+ guests on at at time. As of this moment, Threads: 152,814, Posts: 1,438,672.

Style
I spend countless hours building my theme style from scratch. I used a combination of Macromedia Flash and Fireworks to create the skin. I wanted to make sure that what Warrior Nation had, was going to be totally original and that when you saw it you would know, your at Warrior Nation.

This is only the top glimpse of my site. To see the entire thing in action you must visit. It is skinned in every page. The posts look really good.



Ive also spent alot of time making the postbit look really good. I have custom rank images in posts showing what authority a member has, special award medals for various things members do. I have ribbons that appear one at a time every so many posts a member accumilates. I have the reputation dots customized to show 4 color spectums. I have a rule for signature demensions which I strongly enforce so that each thread looks neat and clean.





Homepage
http://www.warriornation.net/
If you view our homepage you will notice a custom portal type system. Its not installed portal. This portal was designed how I thought one should be. It pulls the news in the center. It pulls the names of all the forum catagories I specified into the left column to show games we support. This allows the list of game to dynamically be updated. What more do you need? Most of the stuff on the portal systems are only there to fill in blank space because they didnt know what else to put in it that was valid.

I ask everyone to take a look at my site, see what you think.

[AWS]

I nominate

http://forums.weddingsolutions.com/

A very unique design. What you see there is forumhome. The only thing that would make it better is if they modified forumlist and postbit to match the uniqueness.

[TheMusicMan]

Can I please nominate www.vBXtra.com - which is my vB styles/templates site.

Ta.

[Ken Iovino]

Filburt gets my vote!

[michaelbenson]

I will second ewebtalk.com and want to nominate my site http://www.ayyas.com/forum.html

If you check our board you can see that our style is heavliy customized. Our arcade section gallery section are all customized to match our style.
We have different section in our board which totally change the look of vBulletin :
Echoes (http://www.ayyas.com/echoes/)
Beyin Fırtınası (http://www.ayyas.com/beyin-firtinasi/)
Album Incelemeleri (http://www.ayyas.com/album-incelemeleri/)
Music Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/biyografiler/)
Writer Biographies (http://www.ayyas.com/murekkep-hokkasi/)
Image Gallery (http://www.ayyas.com/galeri/)
Arcade (http://www.ayyas.com/oyunlar.html)
Homepage (http://www.ayyas.com/)
We tried to keep clean look in our board and easy usage by members.
We currently have vbseo , vbadvanced cmps , geek article and review system , geek autolink pro , vbshout , photopost vbgallery and couple more hacks installed.
I'll second this forum, why? One word, style!

[Lizard King]

I'll second this forum, why? One word, style!
Thank you :)

[theself]

My nomination: http://www.itfreaks.com/forum (http://www.ewebtalk.com/) :D
(http://www.ewebtalk.com/)

[P3RPL3XITY]

My nomination: http://www.itfreaks.com/forum (http://www.ewebtalk.com/) :D
(http://www.ewebtalk.com/)

Nice! I second that...

[ewebtalk]

hmmm that link points to http://www.ewebtalk.com instead of http://www.itfreaks.com/forum/ :confused:

[The Chief]

I would like to nominate myetalk.com.

Hope some people second us ;)

http://www.myetalk.com

[psplounge]

I would like to nominate myetalk.com.

Hope some people second us ;)

http://www.myetalk.com

I second this one. Like the style.:D

[Tantawi]

Amr Diab World forums:
http://forums.amrdiabworld.com/forums.php

I hope you like it, Thank you :)

[Floris]

I'd like to nominate www.piratereportsforum.com with as frontpage www.piratereports.com

This is a great resource and debate web site for those who are interested in knowing more about piracy and anti-piracy.

[Abe Babe]

I haven't entered my board into this before, therefore I would like to nominate one of my forums - http://forums.adventchildren.net/.

All skins were designed by myself from scratch without the use of graphics templates or similar. Two are based on the Advent Children movie, with an alternate color scheme for one of them. A third is based on Dirge of Cerberus [upcoming PS2 game] to associate the forum with the network site for that game [we use the same forums for all of our network so that members can stay in one place]. A fourth skin is a simple style with features and java menus stripped out of the templates for those on slower connections. All pages are customized to give continuity throughout the forums.

One of our unique features is through the uShop/uCash hack. We have written our own module which enables members to purchase plushies [pixel art depicting characters from Square-Enix games along with plushies representing members who donate and staff] and other pixel art items. These can be bought either as gifts for others or to display in one's own profile. Members are also able to contribute towards this by submitting their own pixel art to be considered for use on the forum store and recieve forum currency as a reward.

I don't really know what else to say as I've never done this before and don't want to sound like I'm bragging about my forum too much.

Abe Babe...

[Floris]

Abe babe, your signature is breaking our forum rules, images AND text in a sig is not allowed :p

[Ace]

I would like to re-nominate www.nzboards.com ... A site for New Zealanders and people wanting to know more about 'That country where Hobbits live'. :)

In addition to the core Forums, Arcade and Webmail, we also use vBSEO (http://www.vbseo.com), vBA (http://www.vbadvanced.com), Photopost vBGallery (http://www.photopost.com) and GARS (http://www.thevbgeek.com) (for Newsfeeds and Articles). ;)

I'll second

[John Diver]

I would like to nominate www.WebmasterForums.net





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[Abe Babe]

Abe babe, your signature is breaking our forum rules, images AND text in a sig is not allowed :p I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I will remove the image now.

*is the first time I have broken a forum rule* :o

Abe Babe...

[cyburbia]

Not a gamer board. Not an RPG board. Not an anime board. Not a car mod board. Not a tech board. Not a sports board. Still, I hope you'll consider it.

I'm going to nominate mine - the Cyburbia Forums (http://%5BURL=%22http://www.cyburbia.org/forums). It's a message board catering to urban planning professionals and others who are interested in the built environment. The level of discussion is usually pretty high; no AOL/L337 speak, users tend to be older than on most other message boards, and one-liners are the exception rather than the norm.

I also get a lot of people writing to ask for the image and button set; a creation of mine based on the KDE Plastik theme. For those who like X-TREEEEM! GAMERZ!!!1!!-style graphics, you'll probably be disappointed.

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums

As of today: around 250,000 posts, and 2,600 members, with 544 active. The message board was started in 1996 (http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12&page=40&order=desc) (yes, those are really Matt's WWWBoard messages converted to vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=148130&highlight=matt%27s)), and using vBulletin since 2001.

[Spencer]

Please take a quick look at the design of NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/), which I would like to nominate for February, 2006. It is one of the cleanest and purest skins ever developed for vBulletin. I'm guessing you'll be blown away.

[P3RPL3XITY]

Please check out NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/).

I would like to nominate NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/). It is one of the cleanest and purest skins ever developed for vBulletin.

Seconded!

[ProXie]

Please take a quick look at the design of NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/), which I would like to nominate for February, 2006. It is one of the cleanest and purest skins ever developed for vBulletin. I'm guessing you'll be blown away.
Wow, that's one of the most pro skins I have seen.

That gets my vote...

[adguru]

Please take a quick look at the design of NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/), which I would like to nominate for February, 2006. It is one of the cleanest and purest skins ever developed for vBulletin. I'm guessing you'll be blown away.
And I've already decided who to vote! :p

Thirded! ;)

[Dactyl]

Please take a quick look at the design of NetBusinessTalk (http://www.netbusinesstalk.com/), which I would like to nominate for February, 2006. It is one of the cleanest and purest skins ever developed for vBulletin. I'm guessing you'll be blown away.
Gets my vote as well, well done :)

[cyburbia]

Seconding? Anyone? No love for a ten year old message board? :(

[Dactyl]

Not a gamer board. Not an RPG board. Not an anime board. Not a car mod board. Not a tech board. Not a sports board. Still, I hope you'll consider it.

I'm going to nominate mine - the Cyburbia Forums (http://%5BURL=%22http://www.cyburbia.org/forums). It's a message board catering to urban planning professionals and others who are interested in the built environment. The level of discussion is usually pretty high; no AOL/L337 speak, users tend to be older than on most other message boards, and one-liners are the exception rather than the norm.

I also get a lot of people writing to ask for the image and button set; a creation of mine based on the KDE Plastik theme. For those who like X-TREEEEM! GAMERZ!!!1!!-style graphics, you'll probably be disappointed.

http://www.cyburbia.org/forums

As of today: around 250,000 posts, and 2,600 members, with 544 active. The message board was started in 1996 (http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12&page=40&order=desc) (yes, those are really Matt's WWWBoard messages converted to vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=148130&highlight=matt%27s)), and using vBulletin since 2001.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4285/capture15or.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/781/capture23di.jpg

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6319/capture36me.jpg

Seconded, excellent forum!

[belai123]

I would like to nominate Menopause911.com Forum
http://www.menopause911.com/bb/

[aljawariss]

I would like to nominate my Site :

http://www.aljawariss.net/vb/index.php (http://www.aljawariss.net/vb/index.php)

[JohnGBSA]

I would like to re-nominate www.nzboards.com (http://www.nzboards.com) ... A site for New Zealanders and people wanting to know more about 'That country where Hobbits live'. :)

In addition to the core Forums, Arcade and Webmail, we also use vBSEO (http://www.vbseo.com), vBA (http://www.vbadvanced.com), Photopost vBGallery (http://www.photopost.com) and GARS (http://www.thevbgeek.com) (for Newsfeeds and Articles). ;)

I'll second

That gets my vote as well