Here is the official thread where you can post your boards for inclusion in the April 2001 Member Spotlight Contest!

A special note about this contest and all future ones: from now on, we will NOT be accepting submissions for any 5.X boards. We are only accepting v6 submissions. If you do still use 5.X, feel free to post about it in a separate thread to get some feedback. But it cannot and will not be eligible for the Contest.

All submissions must be received by April 15, 2001.

After we (the staff) have voted on a winner, we will contact said winner with an interview, and that site and interview will be featured on the site. The second place site will also be interviewed. First and second place winners will be announced on April 25.

UPDATE: The winners will be announced in the premier issue of an upcoming feature to this site, the official UBBDev.com Ezine! The Monthly Contest is going to be wholly integrated into the ezine, and it will be one of the regular features. More info about the Ezine will be avaible in an upcoming post by Allen or one of the other administrators.

This month is also the start for the next six-month "big" contest: that is, the next six winners will be facing off to win a one-year upgrade to their UBB license.

To summarize the rules:
1. No 5.X boards will be accepted - only 6.X.
2. No staff members are eligible for entry into the contest.
3. Entries will be judged on creativity, design integration, graphics, colors, and the "quality of the member experience".
4. Entries must be received by April 15, 2001.

Well, that's about it. Let's see those submissions!!

---Skorpion

[ April 07, 2001: Message edited by: Skorpion ]

Once again I will post my board.
http://www.gamerzparadize.com/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi

http://www.411hype.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

it seems we get the same ppl enter each month!
lol!
good luck to all!

...vielleicht haben wir diesmal eine Chance !!!
http://www.anubisweb.de/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

PS: Plauder Board war das erste deutsche Board das hier für ein Award vor geschlagen wurde!!!

idn't it still a lil early for this contest? most of the hacks are all still in beta form.

hmm... well... are beta boards acceptible submissions? (like, if it works, but.. just not available for the posting public, other than the admin who is creating it)

drkknght, yes, most of the hacks are still in beta form. But there are several that are finalized, and even with betas you are provided a lot of room to customize your board already.

You may feel free to submit your board, provided that we (the staff here) have access to it so we can at least see it. Remember, though, that part of our evaluation scale is based on member experience, so you will definitely lose points in that department if it's not open to the general public.

---Skorpion

gotchya! ill probably just wait til next month.

thanks skorp! good luck others! and fear the future wrath of the dark knight!! bwah hah hah..cough...hah...

..doh...

Heres mine: http://www.zeldaglitches.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi

Good luck everyone.


[ April 07, 2001: Message edited by: Travis ]

[ April 08, 2001: Message edited by: Travis ]

When does judging start?
so i know how much time i got for perfecting?

Judging usually starts within a day or two after the deadline for submission. Because of our "deadline" for the ezine, this time it will probably begin asap so we can get the mag ready and out the door. So basically make sure it's done and ready by the 15th.

---Skorpion

http://24.162.172.11/forums/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Not much yet but hey i just got it up yesterday

PS: url might be moving to forums.insane-realms.com when the domain is ready

kool thanks skorpion

i guess its not FAIR ,, ubb6 still have bugs .. still not stable ,, every day we surprized with a new version .

you have to give a chance for the 5.x boards until infopop stop their hidden beta

http://tbof.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi


I just started it yesterday and have made a few changes and 2 more templates, One is specifically for one board the other is the default that includes the top sites and the Alliances I'm in. The One that has a template specifically made for doesn't have some of the color settings as the other boards.

Looking good so far... We may adjust the things we judge just slightly to account for good use of templates and plugins for v6.

Being this is the first one for v6, we expect that things will really not be hopping until next month, but I already see some good ones, nice work.

The decision to not allow v5 boards was not taken lightly, and it was only after a significant amount of discussion on the subject that we came to the conclusion. The final conclusion we came to, was that since we were no longer offering v5 support forums here, it was rather unbalanced to allow it in the contest. We have since revoked the decision to remove the v5 support boards, at least until Infopop officially stops supporting it as well. However, we firmly believe that v6 is the future of UBB, and we are doing our best to promote it as such. Since this contest is about showing off the brightest, best, and newest methods of customization, we felt that v6 is the only way to go. For those and other reasons, we stand by our decision to not allow v5 boards in the contest.

If you really want to be included in the contest, you will have to upgrade to v6. It really isn't as bad as some people might have you think.

BTW, what "hidden beta" are you talking about?

---Skorpion

well here's my submission: http://www.saehoon.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi

Well, this is my first attempt at entering one of these contests. What better time to release my new redesign.

My site: http://www.marz.org

My forum: http://marz.org/cgi/mmartian/marzubb/ultimatebb.cgi

Our entry

http://forums.opentechsupport.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

Just upgraded to 6.04 last night