March, Site of the month contest

Well thanks to my friend wineo who inspired this great idea, I decided to start the site of the month contest.

Make your submition to the contest by repling here with your site's title, url, category and a brief description.

In the meanwhile members of the forum will be able to vote for the site that they like most.

The winner's prize will be a text link in this site (we will also add an 'archive' section later with listings of all the winners) and a link from topsites directory homepage(pagerank 5) for 3 months!

Also we will add a special badge besides your avatar to let the others know of your skills :)

Here is an example submition for the award :

Title : Safe Surf
URL : http://www.safe-surf.org
Category : proxy site
Description : SafeSurf is a web site that helps you surf the web secure and anonymous.

The creterias that we want from your site to comly with are the above, and you can have one or more of them :

Custom design
Fresh - usefull content
Case study web site idea (meaning that your site is somehow 'original' in this copy cat web...)

Please don't use this contest to spam the forum. If I see that there are lots of non posting members posting their sites here, those posts will be propably deleted. I am sorry if this is rude to you, but contests are actually like a gift to the people that really support this site and like it enough to be here now and then :)

That's all, hope good luck to everyone :)

Nick.

Title : Mercury
URL : http://www.mercury.theicy.net
Category : Online Community
Description : Mercury is a general online community that features discussions on art, literature, gaming, graphics, music, philosophy, debate, television and movies. We also have roleplaying, homework help and user journals, and we let those who have the talent to write or do computer graphics or art to show it off. The actual site features game, music, television and movie reviews and we have contests bimonthly to put writing and graphics up on the main site! We have many active members and enjoy meeting new people!

Hope that's a good enough description. XD

~Crystal

LoL. That's a really big one. Thanks for your submition and good luck Mercury :)

I've got a few questions about the competition if you don't mind...
1. What will the site be judged on? (design, content, original idea, all...)
2. Does the site have to be in English?
3. Can we enter one or several sites?

For now I'll just submit this one:

Title : php.mnu
URL : http://phpmnu.bugfix.nl
Category : Website Navigation Script
Description : I've created the php.mnu navigation script to use on one of my own websites. I couldn't find a good script that I liked so I created my own. This was also my first php and MySQL work ever.

Let me answer your questions.

1. What will the site be judged on? (design, content, original idea, all...)

The site will be judged on all of these, but it can be judged only by one of them. So take those as factors that will be used for ranking a site. A site can be the winner because it has great design, but sites that have great design too and some usefull content will rank better. Hope I make this clear(I know my english s**ks)

2. Does the site have to be in English?

No its ok if you have an international web site, but this way you wont be ranked for the content of the site, except if someone here talks the language that your site supports.

3. Can we enter one or several sites?

I would say no to this, because this could be a good reason for forum abuse, but don't worry, because I plan to keep this contest for a long time so you will be able to post your other sites on the forthcoming site of the month contests (there will be propably one per month or more if there is a lot of interest)

If you have any further questions, feel free to reply here.

Good luck :)

What about adult sites?
Are they legal to post, I dont want to be offensive or disrespectfull to anyone.

please do  :P ehhh I mean, I don't think so, since this forum doesn't ask for a certain age to join (Nikolas is only 12 don't be fooled by that picture, its his father  ;D) I guess this would be inapropriate to post here

K thanx I am glad I asked. Mabee I need to build a site that isnt adult orentated, unfortunatly
thats where most the traffic is...

No that's would be inappropriate for the reasons Mind_nl tolled (especially for the fact that I am only 12 years old.LoL :) )

I'll add one of mine
Title : The Forbidden Forest
URL : http://www.the-forbidden-forest.net
Category : Online Community
Description : The Forbidden Forest is a Harry Potter fan site I helped develop with custom themes, images, forum templates etc together with extensive use of Apaches mod_rewrite function to shorten url's.
It attracts users from all over the world despite being a prediminantly english language site and I like to think it keeps some of the much younger generation off the streets and out of mischief.
It isn't the best site I have had a hand on but it does serve a useful community function.

It seems like every time I come here there's a contest. Anyway... hmm... one site... this is tough...

Title : The Nerd Council
URL : http://www.nerdcouncil.com
Category : Erm... nerdy site? See description
Description : Find out if you are a nerd with our online tests, talk to nerds on our disscussion forum, and get computer help with our extensive resource bank.

Site url: http://www.aksinfo.com
Category: Internet & Computers
Description: A website for Web Design & Hosting Company

Forumrating please update your post with title, category and description for your site.

Thanks :)

Title : J Love Web Design
URL : http://www.justinlove.net
Category : Web Design, Web Hosting, Webmaster Tools
Description : Quality and affordable web design free free hosting plans, email, tools, blogs, and much more!

^^ Is that an advert of a contest entry?

LoL, I guess both, but anyway that's the way this contest is done plus meth0d is one of my most beloved members here, so there's no prob :)

ahh my bad guys thats a contest entry :D

Hmmm... I too have many that I would love to submit, but which one? I am going to go with this one:

Title: Wine Reviews and Tasting Notes - Wineography
URL: http://www.wineography.com
Category: Resource, Hobbies
Description: Online wine database, track your own wine cellar, rate wines, record tasting notes, search for the best wines and comment on various blends.

I have a few I'd like to enter but I'll use my best judgement and go with this one..

Title: Blue Collar Comedy Tour Fans
URL: http://www.bluecollarfans.com
Category: Comedy, Humor
Description: For fans of the comedians of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Discussion about Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron "Tater Salad" White, and Larry the Cable guy is welcome. There is also a section to discuss all other stand-up comedy, sitcoms, or general humor.

Title: Make a request, get a domain
URL: http://www.urlof.com
Category: Webmaster, free stuff, domains, webhosting, humour
Description: Users can make requests on why they should get a free domain. The best request wins a free domain.

Title : KallangRoar.com - Singapore's Premier Football Forum
URL : http://www.kallangroar.com
Category : Online Football Community
Description : KallangRoar.com has been around for nearly a year and have accummulated more than 300 members during that time. It is now a PR3 site and chances are, it might get to a PR5, at least, with the release of its new features and forum skin in the coming weeks. The new forum skin will be ready in a few weeks time.

here is mine:

Title : Dutch PHP resource
URL : http://www.finalwebsites.com
Category : php scripts
Description : Find on this PHP resource site code snippets, functions and classes. The scripts can be used in PHP and MySQL powered web applications and web sites.

Here's mine:
Title: Interactive project directory
Site: http://www.donate-a-mate.com
Catergoty: Directory
Description: A directory but not as we know it. No rules list anything, Article, website, Product/service.
Give and receive donations to increase your ranking
Adsense revenue sharing program
And it's free

Title : semi 3rd eye
URL : http://semi-3rd-eye.demonhale.com
Category : a chilling memoir
Description : This site is my experiment on WP, its new and unique, please visit it and comment on entries, I plan to put in memberships in the future. It about the experiences I have as well as the people around me pertaining to the unseen, or something like that.

Is the contest over or can i submit too?

I would say that the last day for entries is tomorrow...

Yeah, tomorrow is the deadline.

But of course we will start over at 1st of April :)

ok, next month then :)

Hi Nikolas, how does it work, the voting? (can't see a vote link)

regards Olaf

You want to vote for a site, or to add a nomination?

What we did last time I participated in a comp like this was...

At the end of the month a poll is set up where members can vote for the next couple of weeks or even for the following month. The winner is then announced at the end of that voting period.

In the mean time the next submissions are being accepted for the following month's comp.

I hope that is clear... but this is up to Nick on how to judge the entries...

No let's do it this way :)

It is better.

Thanks :)

I got the answer from wineo, Thanks!

(adding a website was easy) ;)

Olaf

Ok, the contest (for this month) is over.

Can you please help me with the desicion?

Who do you think the winner should be?

Well, I think i'd go with mercury boards, they seem like a cool site with a good layout. All the sites sumitted were great but that was one of my fave's.
Hope that helps.

Bex
Xx

There a lot of contestants with a community site...

Nikolas, keep an eye on your members  :D

My vote:

I love red wine (one of my favors is the australian shiraz) and I like this site:

Wine Reviews and Tasting Notes - Wineography

I guess we should add a forum for wine here.

I love red wine too :)

Thanks for your votes.

People keep voting, in two - three days we will have a winner.

I want to say mine, Mercury, but I think I'll refrain from voting. xD

~Crystal

LoL. Should we mention that vote or not?  ???

If you want. But I don't know if you're allowed to vote for yourself or not. If not, then no. XD

~Crystal

I hope so, it might be the only vote BlueCollarFans.com gets... LOL!

then you can vote for mine instead... its sparkling new! LOL!

Ok, we have a winner, Mercury. Congratulations :)

Mercury now send me a pm with the details about your link (url, anchor text)

The rest please feel free to submit your sites to the April's SOTM contest here :

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,2146.0.April%2C+Site+of+the+month+contest.html

Congrats, mercury!