What's the nicest, best designed vBulletin site you've seen? I'm looking for sites that have a portal and forums.

If you know of a top-notch site, please provide a link to it and let us check it out.

you could always check out the portfolio of the designers of WHT's VB...

http://www.ravio.com/

The VB theme I like the best is the default one that they ship it with...

yeah its pretty nice, but the only reason i hate to use it is just simply because its the default..

I'm not sure if this is a default vB skin or not but I really like DVDTalk.com (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/index.php)'s forums.

It looks like a simple edit of it, the default one is http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php

Originally posted by Megamorph
What's the nicest, best designed vBulletin site you've seen? I'm looking for sites that have a portal and forums.

If you know of a top-notch site, please provide a link to it and let us check it out.

Does webhostingtalk.com count? :)

Originally posted by wirehosts
It looks like a simple edit of it, the default one is http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php
This is vB3 color scheme :P

The vb2 theme was the same wasnt it?

Yeah, thats the vB2 design just moved onto vB3. The vB3 design hasn't been finished from what I have read.

Originally posted by Megamorph
What's the nicest, best designed vBulletin site you've seen? I'm looking for sites that have a portal and forums.

If you know of a top-notch site, please provide a link to it and let us check it out.
Well there was this wacky host that actually used a VB forum as their site. If only I could remember their name. :buck:

My favourite VB skin is the one Ravio LLC did for yaxay: http://forum.yaxay.com/

Originally posted by Megamorph
What's the nicest, best designed vBulletin site you've seen? I'm looking for sites that have a portal and forums.

If you know of a top-notch site, please provide a link to it and let us check it out.
httpme.com ;)

http://nexusportal.net is the best I've seen. So much more than an active community. :)

I'd have to say that www.Yaxay.com is the most tricked out vBulletin site there is.. and it isn't "new", even in Version 2..

I'd like to add two more votes

http://www.httpme.com

http://www.clientexec.com/forum/ (love the colors - how much would a skin like this cost?)

What? httpme is a standard vb skin - just had the colours adjusted in the adminCP. ClientExec looks nice but hardly a complex skin. None are hacked. You got to hack VB, it was made for hacking. :nuts:

Originally posted by NexDog
What? httpme is a standard vb skin - just had the colours adjusted in the adminCP. ClientExec looks nice but hardly a complex skin. None are hacked. You got to hack VB, it was made for hacking. :nuts:

Well I guess Aussie Bob has good taste in colors then (or whoever chose them).

Yours are uber super hacked, just want something simple like ClientExec's.

They run VB 3 beta and there are no hacks out for it yet. No-one is allowed to release any while it is in beta and all the vb2 hacks will need extensive rehsacking to work.....

Maybe one day we'll get one of those super duper VB skins. What we have now does the job just nicely. I like that clean and uncluttered look. To me, less is more. :)

Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Maybe one day we'll get one of those super duper VB skins. What we have now does the job just nicely. I like that clean and uncluttered look. To me, less is more. :)

The yacht must be in the shop again for a tune up or are you surfing via WiFi on your laptop? ;)

That's what I like about HTTPme's appearance, it's clean, fast and functional.

Less is more.

I like ours. Integrated support site, personalised to the user, 150+ pages of contents plus 20+ scripts to help people. More is definately more than less.

yaxay is nice but it has to probably be the slowest site on the web. takes forever to load since it was moved to rackshack.

Originally posted by NexDog
I like ours. Integrated support site, personalised to the user, 150+ pages of contents plus 20+ scripts to help people. More is definately more than less.
Yes Laurance, yours is nice. :)

I may be biased but I like mine the best :P

Bob - Clean and simple, yet boring.

NexDog - I do and I don't like yours :confused:
I like the fact of the left sidebar however, I don't like the images so much :0
It does not match your main site and looks like a skin you can download for free (no offense meant).

Heh, no offence taken. Please take no offence when I say go to an optometrist.

There isn't one skin available that looks like ours. The sidebar, the top menu, you must be blind. :D

Doesn't match the HN site? :crazy:

:D optometrist.. is that a joke or you meant to tell us your needing one :P

The forums and the main site are totally different colors, the button set on forums looks nothing like main site.

As for it's originality, I have no doubt I will not find another like it.
I do like it, I am just partial I guess to less graphics on forums.
That side bar is bad-ass though, I really like that :P

They are two different sites and NexusPortal will serve future "nexus" sites like the upcoming NexusWebs. So they aren't meant to look alike. Just share the same logo. :)

Ahhh makes sense :P

I will like to see the NexusWebs site when done, if it looks like that it should be pretty sharp :D

NexusWebs is completely different again but done by the same designer, Andrei aka Azaloth at WHT.

Originally posted by Esr Tek
. . . Bob - Clean and simple, yet boring . . .
Sweet!! :gthumb:

I like the web design net forums:
http://www.webdesignforums.net/?styleid=3

I like yaxay's. It's very nice. It can run a little slow with all the graphics but the forum is attractive.

Yeah, Yaxay is nice not only when it loads decently, but when it is up at all.. I tried it a little while ago and it was offline again. I would think that since RS owns it now, that they wouldn't toss it on an overloaded server or whatever..

Graphic intensiveness aside (Yaxay), I probably think www.AlienSoup.com and www.WiredGamers.com are the coolest out there currently.

www.raviowarning.com

not to get out of the subject sorry but were could I get a FREE skin like webhostingtalk (this one) so I can put banners on my forums =) thanks! sorry once again

That requires hacking vbulletin.

not to get out of the subject sorry but were could I get a FREE skin like webhostingtalk (this one) so I can put banners on my forums =) thanks! sorry once again


Sorry to say this, but what makes you think that you'll get one of the most popular forum's skin for free?

www.raviowarning.com

This is the first time I've heard about this. I think I'll check up on this daily. I was going to get a design from them.