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The winner of our “XOOPS Site of the month contest” for month MAY 2006 with 38% of all valid votes is …. VETOFISH.

Some comments to vetofish given by our visitors:

• + I like it’s originality, the way how it manages content and all it’s features.
• + What do YOU love most of YOUR favourite Site? This was a tough choice but I have to say my reason for choosing Vetofish was because of it’s graphics. I like the layout but the style of the design makes me feel as if I’m using a local program. Simple yet effective.
• + The design is polished and pleasing to the eye. It doesn’t look like, yet another XOOPS site. Well done!

While working on a theme I had to create some new images for newbb because the colour did not fit the new layout. I made some simple dots on a 23*11 px background transparent. You can view them running on testforum of my demo site. Grab them, when you like them and download ZIP version of newbbdots_1_0 here!

Many of my visitors downloaded xf_openWeb but some of them had problems displaying modules like forum or modules which use many tables with width=”100%” or clearing elements. xf_openWeb is a 3 column full width theme using floatings to position things, there was no width set for the centercontent. This has some disadvantages while using preference table width=”100%” within the centercontent. Some browser were not able to calculate the width correct and display the content below the left block or overflow.

This is another easy way to add static content to xoops without too much work. When you have already read the article about the easiest way to add static content to XOOPS, you might be interested to get another possibility. Here are the steps to create your “own module” and to include your static content and you will find a zip version to download at the end of article. The advantage of this way is, that you can have a link in mainmenu and that you can set blocks in blockadministration on the sites of your “new module”. It will be registered like a normal module.

Yes, I do love to manage this blog, but the more I hate to delete all this spam every day. There are spam entries within xoops (submit-) forms too, but no comparison to what is caught in my xoopsfactory blog.

Some entries are my own fault, I think, “hair-loss-help-hair-loss-baldness-remedy” is definately because of my photo. Thanks to Akismet, a nice tool to catch Spam within your WordPress. I decided to moderate all of my submissions though, but I’m getting tired of deleting these entries.

I have just opened the voting form for month May 2006. There were only seven submissions of nominations, but I think that there are some very very nice examples. Please take some minutes, visit the nominated sites and submit your voting for your favourite site.