Any amazing TP based sites?

[G6Cad]

Back on TP V098 Elvpn hade an amazing site about movies, he did put a lot of time into it and used both articles and blocks to an extension that looked like a real pro site for movies

And i agree, Zetans site were one of the better seen, but also there he put in a LOT of time to get what he wanted. To get SMF and TP to look pro, you need to spend time building on the site, thats where TP comes in, easy to use with grate functions, but you NEED to make it personal and put in time on it, otherwise it will just be a site among others.

[Zetan]

Thanks again my site pales in comparison to some.

Here are some of the sites that I think are excellent and showcase the best of SMF and TP

http://www.sourcetunes.com/index.php - A very professional looking site employing a superb adaptation of Bloc's Mesh theme. :up:

Link Removed Site is no longer SMF/TP based - Not a genre I have any interest in, but a site well presented and maintained.

http://www.blabbster.com/index.php - Not sure what happened to Lord Anubis' other site. NextSite, but I like the integration and clever use of custom block code snippets. IIRC, Wilsy was heavily involved with bugging the code team to help write a lot of the scripts.

http://www.rewindlancs.com/forum/index.php - Wilsy's site, or was. I'm not sure if he ever did sell it. It started life as a local Lancashire site.. How it evolved to become a great looking motorcycle site, I'm not sure.

http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=29134.0 - Bec's site, previously mentioned. It was a very nice site. What happened Bec?

http://www.scclan-gamers.com/ - Quite a nice site, often gaming sites are very visual.

http://www.thepoliticalcapital.com/ - A unique look with a theme by StormLrd.

http://www.thirdeyeconcept.com/news/index.php - An informative site, well presented. Looks different with a new theme from Bikken since I last looked.

http://www.planet-core.com/ - Understated site but well presented.



There was a site showcase topic that I posted in, it had a black theme a was a music based site. I really liked the site but I just cannot find it now. It would have been up near the top of the list.

Most of the sites look inherently portal based, block like. That's the nature of it. I think there could be better use of the front page and TP.net thanks to Bloc often does have a front page that doesn't look so modular. It's the best example of such a site that I can think of.

[G6Cad]

pvc blues site is no longer a forum, just base html pages 

[Zetan]

pvc blues site is no longer a forum, just base html pages 

Oh yeah! Well, no love lost there then.

Link removed and showcase topic updated and locked.

[WillyP]

http://www.planetdescent.net/index.php

[Zetan]

http://www.planetdescent.net/index.php

That's it? Just post a link to one of your sites with no description of why it's "Amazing"?


If this topic gets to the point of a link and run, it will be locked. I'm sure you can do better than that.

[WillyP]

I am very sorry, I didn't intend to offend anyone, but the topic is 'Any amazing TP based sites?', not why they are amazing.  

Ok, so this site is amazing because it looks great, works well, and has many features the old site could only dream of.

Such as:

Uploading at the old site required e-mailing a file to an admin, who often as not were AWOL for months at a time. New site has new admins who are there every day. Uploading is done by the members, with a progressive post count based permission system.

Expanded pilot profiles, (Ultimate Profiles) allows members to create a member page to their liking, as little or as much personal info as wanted.

Multiple themes, user selectable. Easily changed default theme, new themes easily added.

Soupe du Jour, News, PD Poll, and POTD, featured on the front page, are created as topics, which automajicly get posted on the front page.

Gallery... users can show off their levels, music, whatever...

Little things like the users online, new posts listed, and much more. These things did not exist on the old site. Even the new posts indicator never did work quite right.

And much more. So, does this sound awesome to you? Oh, I should add, the old site is hosted on IGN servers, and they had withdrawn support some time ago. And due to what we can only guess are anti-spam features added globally, posts were limited to 100 characters, many characters banned, even hitting the enter key in a post would fail the post.

We still yet have to fill in the files section, we have links and articles to add. But yeah, it is a work in progress, and I hope it always will be!

[Zetan]

Nice site WillyP :up:




...Don't you have a Showcase topic to post that lot in?







Just kidding

[Sledge]

http://www.thepoliticalcapital.com/ - A unique look with a theme by StormLrd.

Hey, thanks for the recognition Zetan. How very cool of you!

[zapiy]

Some great sites, I am working on a new look and feel to my site and hope to share it with you all soon.