Nice boards, all of them.

To the people complaining, I think you should bear in mind that good design and style is as much about the blank spaces as the picture itself.. Simplicity is almost always good design. I've seen UBB's that are modified through the roof, but look terrible, because they have too much going on, and the little details haven't been taken care of. Personally, I see this contest as being about style and design, more than about programming.. Those sites were all easy on the eyes, and had a few different features that I liked, one I'm even thinking of using on my own boards..

-Just my 2 penneth-

-hey, I'm English, we have pennies not cents-

Lucia -

Haven't seen you around in awhile! Sort of missed you here ...

- DB

Yeah, I've been busy.. Too much stuff to do, and so little time..

I'm really impressed: so many very nice UBBs out there; the main thing i recognized is that some guys are trying to install every hack: maybe there are so many pretty useful things our there but most of the boards became horrible to use: too many features, too many grafix and things which might confuse the users... wenn starting the technoforum.de i wanted my users to have a quick overview whats going on with the electronic music: that's why we don't have moderators, that's why i deleted the 'icon'-gfx in the mainView and that's why we don't have any sub-categories: they may confuse our users and so there might be the question, where to post something... yes. i did install a few mods/hacks so make the site more user-friendly; but the main thing for me is to think about missing hacks/mods out there which may be VERY useful for my site. that's why i did 'develop' the ICUmessenger, the BookmarkHack and the working version of the 'new private message'PopUp (which is going to be modified soon); right now a friend of mine is coding a javascript-based Messenger which parses the onlineUsers from dave's "who is online"mod via SSI: i'd like my users to stay on my site and to force the communication between our users without just posting some sort of crappy 'smalltalk'... I did include a flashChat into my Ultimate.cgi and my users love it so far: without any JavaApplets or complicated PlugIns they talk about topics they read in the Ubb - so i avoid unnecessary smalltalk ...

well, 8 months ago i nearly was unable to spell 'perl' but now I'm a littlebit into it and I'd like to develop more usefull mods/hacks: it seems that a lot of users have a look at the source of UBB and then try to find anything they might change. I do the other way: I'm thinking about what's REALLY usefull and then I'm going to try to code it...

Again: respect to the winners out there..!

chris