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Another period of voting is over and we have another winner of our “Site of the month” contest. The winner of XOOPS Site of the month contest for month April is … Styling & Design - Noord.

The next monthly voting of our XOOPS SITE OF THE MONTH contest has started. Please, take some minutes and browse through the nominated sites of month April 2006.

Click this Link to jump to a list of all nominated sites of month April 2006. Please, use the voting-form to submit your favourite site of this contest.

The winner of the XOOPS Site of the month contest March 2006 is NABUUR.COM Online Volunteering.

“… NABUUR.COM’s mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbours via the Internet. And through these Neighbours to the huge reservoir of resources (knowledge, solutions, energy, creativity) that is available elsewhere. …”

This is the 8th xoops site of the month contest I’m organizing at xoops factory. We had 145 site-submission during the last nominations and i’m proud to see sooo many great sites made with xoops. I’ve just uploaded the screen-images of the actual nominations and put the voting form online. As always you are invited to browse through the nominations of month march and to vote for your favourite. Play fair and have a look at the examples.

The winner of the “XOOPS Site of the month” award, month february is Roma Victor Camp. “… Roma Victor Camp is a fansite and resource site for historical, no subscription fees MMORPG Roma Victor. It consists of a massive forum, screenshots, links, articles and poll section. …”
“… It provides all the up to date news about Roma Victor, and the site looks cool too!…”, “… Its very informative and a great resource for those who need to use it. The staff are incredibly helpfull and offer a friendly atmosphere in the forums. …”

I just put the screenshots (thumbs, thumbnails) for the nominated sites of February 2006 online. Here are the nominated sites of month February and here is the link to the voting form. Please, browse through the examples, choose your favourite and submit the voting form until 23th March 2006!

When you want to see YOUR favourite site on the nomination list for one of the next months, you are welcome. Simply use the form to submit your nomination.

XOOPS Sites: Here we are with the results of January 2006. Not as much votings as we have seen in the last months, but therefore we got not as much spam as we have seen before.

In the comming months i will continue to look for people who want to help reviewing sites and i’m still thinking how to categorize the voting into groups such as “best design”, “best community” and “best content” etc.

The first voting for this year is ready to start. Screens and voting form for month January 2006 are online and you can begin to review the nominated sites. From today on you have 3 weeks time until 23th february to choose your favourite and submit the voting form.

Decembers winner is Asian Car Styling with 17 votings. The second place is shared by Anime Kensei and Wanabka with 15 votings each. With 10 votings each the third place is shared by All about MASK and Gooberhead.net (hmmm, … i wish i could be 15 or 20 years younger again …).

Again, there were many good sites! My personal favourite this month was the page of xray-mag.com for its great content and stuff on their page. When i got the nomination for this site it took me some hours to look through the magazine. Nor I’m a diving specialist or too much interested in this topic but the images and stuff were really great. Perhaps some of the guys want to invite me for a week? I downloaded some of their .pdf documents and began to dive in …

This month it was hard for me, there were many submissions of votings, which could not be counted as valid. From nearly 200 submissions there were just some more than 100 which could be counted. Double votings from same email or IP, mass mailings from same IP range and proxy in a small period are only some aspects i had to put my eyes on. Actually i do not find a better solution to handle this contest. I would really appreciate if one of the module devs will help to create a module to organize and handle such a contest. Why i’m not using a poll modul?