First topic message reminder :

Its back and its better then ever!
The Fourth installment of "the best of" contest started all those years ago by Kilsek.

Its time to showcase your forums, buff them up, grab the makeup box and make them look good.
Submit your forum to the best panel of judges, THE USERS OF THIS FORUM, and have your forums be evaluated in the three categories....

+Graphics Display
+Forum Layout and Organization
+Activity

If your forum is evaluated the best in all three categories, you will receive the best forum overall award, which signifies you the top forum hosted on the English Forumotion services.

This is the timefreame of the contest...
1. The submissions of your forum start today, this will last for two weeks.
2. The first round of voting will start, this will last one week.
3. The bottom half of the forums that were voted on will be dropped.
4. The remaining forums will be voted on again, and the top four forum will be selected, this will last one week.
5. The four forums will be voted on by the staff of forumotion and the officials of this competition to determine which prize they will recieve, this will last 2 days.

Before anyone complains, this contest has been authorized by Caihlem and Nessa. Thanks guys!!!!

And the only other person (other then staff) allowed to run this contest is Darren.

Thanks, now get out the photoshop and html pages (these will be taken into account) and get working on your forums!!!

Thanks For Participating
Drag~

P.S. To submit your forum, reply to this topic with the following format...

Code:

[b]Site Name:[/b]
[b]Site Link:[/b]
[b]Thumbnail (ONLY) image:[/b]
[b]A SINGLE paragraph site description:[/b]
[b]Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.):[/b]

Fishyyy12 ~ Accepted

Anyone else?

Hey Darren, when does this end?

[quote="first message by drag -_-]This is the timefreame of the contest...
1. The submissions of your forum start today, this will last for two weeks.
2. The first round of voting will start, this will last one week.
3. The bottom half of the forums that were voted on will be dropped.
4. The remaining forums will be voted on again, and the top four forum will be selected, this will last one week.
5.
The four forums will be voted on by the staff of forumotion and the
officials of this competition to determine which prize they will
recieve, this will last 2 days.[/quote]

Notice: The time for voting has been shortened so the final winner is announced eairler than expected!


Pogosheep's application updated as request.


It's still going, more people participate please!!

not a lot of sites entered?
you need to make more publicity

*sigh* I would enter, but I can't take pictures. (I've a Mac with Windows on it. No Printscreen button)

Jalokim wrote:not a lot of sites entered?
you need to make more publicity

Got any suggestions?

Niels wrote:*sigh* I would enter, but I can't take pictures. (I've a Mac with Windows on it. No Printscreen button)

Screenshots aren't necessary, but are useful tools to help judge

screen shot tut or mac users

Site Name: Games World
Site Link: http://gamesworldforum.forumotion.net
Thumbnail (ONLY) image: https://2img.net/h/i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp197/VampiricPadraig/GWF.png
A SINGLE paragraph site description: Games World is a Irish Gaming forum with up to date news and events as it happens.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Gaming

Site Name: Parrots Paradise
Site Link: http://agreyworld.naturalforum.net/index.htm
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:

A SINGLE paragraph site description: This site is dedicated to help and support Parrots and there owners, We cover every species of parrot and have reference to all 350 and more species with each species individually linked to the relevant page on Wiki for Visual identification and Species details. You can come in and ask any question you want whether its from diet problems or just to post videos and stories about your parrot.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Animals & pets

Niels wrote:*sigh* I would enter, but I can't take pictures. (I've a Mac with Windows on it. No Printscreen button)

darren1 wrote:
Screenshots aren't necessary, but are useful tools to help judge

screen shot tut for mac users

Fixed it. Anyway, I have a Mac Computer with a Windows operating system on it. All my programs are on Windows not on Mac. (My mac got reset 2 weeks ago )

Site Name: The Fruit Forums
Site Link: http://fruit.forumotion.net
Thumbnail (ONLY) image: Sorry, I'm unable to take pics
A SINGLE paragraph site description: The Fruit Forums is a site started about the game "Myninjakiwi". That game closes at August 10th. We're now a site for random talking and discussing everything. At this moment we have 34 members (I deleted about 10 of them yesterday) and we're up for 2 weeks now.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Miscellaneous

Site Name:Fuji Planet
Site Link: www.fuji.forumotion.com
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:
A SINGLE paragraph site description: Fuji Planet is a general forum with three main services:
Graphics-Requesting and showing off your graphics skills
Reviews-This is where you can request any kind of product you want and our official reviewers will review it (Just Opened)
The Arcade-Play tons of fun games in this section and share your levels with our 4 new level editors
Overall, we are a fairly active community with over 13000 posts and 100+ members,
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Graphics? lolwuh?

All accepted!

Thanks guys!!

Bumping up.....

Site Name: Pokémon Mania
Site Link: http://pokemon-mania.forummotion.com
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:

A SINGLE paragraph site description: All about pokemons are mostly discussed here.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Games & RPG

Site Name:Ericko's Forums. Support Site for Ericko's Garry's Mod Servers (Sandbox / Spacebuild 2)
Site Link:Ericko's Forums
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:
A SINGLE paragraph site description: Hello and greetings to all formotion users! Our community started just 2 months ago as a game server for the half life based source engine mod Garry's Mod. The Team and I have put together a community for fellow gaming enthusiasts who come from varring backgrounds. The forums are our support site for the Garry's mod servers which contain all additional mods and tools that may be used by people who join our servers. The forum is about 2-3 weeks old and already has close to 20 users and growing daily. Xifex - me and Ericko are the founders of this forum of course not without the support of forumotion.com. I work primary on the forums and graphics while Erikco manages our servers.

Note: most of the forums are set so guests are not able to see. Whomever would like to review the forums please let me know so I may give you full reading access of our forums. Again thank you forumotion for all that you do.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Internet Gaming Community

Site Name: Warrior Cats World
Site Link: http://warriorcatsworld.forumotion.com/forum.htm
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:
A SINGLE paragraph site description: My website is about a book called Warriors. It is a fun and friendly community to talk about the book, chat, and have fun.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): I am not sure, maybe books?

I will enter, im just finishing my website up. Will post in due time deffinatly today.

Thanks for entering everyone, ur all accepted

Beno, take ur time, were still open until friday

How many more people want to participate?

Bump......

Site Name:MyTube
Site Link:http://mytube.forumotion.net/forum.htm
Thumbnail (ONLY) image:

A SINGLE paragraph site description: MyTube is all about haveing fun, and communicating with others.
Category you want your site listed in (If we think your site fits in a better category, we will place it in such.): Umm Teens?

site name : my best friends

site URL : www.meschersamis.topgoo.net

Thumbnail ( only image ) :

Bradly, accepted - ur in "Computers and the internet"
babroman21, sorry because ur forum isn't English we can't accept it.


These are the only ones to chose from, please do NOT make up ur own

Notice: we only need 1 more forum to officially make 1 winner per category

Good luck all!

formotion staff i have question. Even with my forum settings set to guest not being able to see but a few categories which are built for new users. Would forumotion staff be able to see my whole forum? or would i need to give special access to the forumotion staff member(s) who are going to review our forum for this contest.

Thanks
Team Ericko
- TE Xifex

I want to change the name of my forum...

its tealeaf graphics
tealeafgraphics.7forum.net

Jalokim wrote:I want to change the name of my forum...

its tealeaf graphics
tealeafgraphics.7forum.net

Nice forum Jalo...

Hope I can make forum like yours....

TE Xifex wrote:formotion staff i have question. Even with my forum settings set to guest not being able to see but a few categories which are built for new users. Would forumotion staff be able to see my whole forum? or would i need to give special access to the forumotion staff member(s) who are going to review our forum for this contest.

Thanks
Team Ericko
- TE Xifex

We will view & judge ur forum as is, from a guests perspective, you may open more of the forum up to a guest so that we can view addition area's of your forum ( Of-cause, this may not always be benifficial to you, but it may be benifficial so who know's )
There are Staff and Members voting in the several rounds of voting too ....

Jalokim wrote:I want to change the name of my forum...

its tealeaf graphics
tealeafgraphics.7forum.net

Will do ASAP when IE stops loading (im at school)
Nice new name

Anyone else want to participate?

yo darren, can you change my forum to General?

It's Fuji Planet btw, thx

Moved for ya Naz

Anyone else?