On Friday, May 16 beginning at 7pm, the Invisionize server will be replaced by a new server due to hardware problems. The site will be unavailable throughout the night. Sorry for any inconvenience. Invisionize will return during the day on Saturday. All services, including email and the website will be unavailable throughout the downtime.

Never in the world have I ever seen such a close contest. The winner of this contest won by 1/10th of a point.

Before we announce the winners, I would like to be firm that this contest was fair, and that, although we had a lack of submissions, we made sure that this would not become a popularity contest.

If you hadn't known, the Programming Team voted secretly, scoring each mod in separate categories: Interface (design and navigation), Security, Theme (And how well it fit the requirements), Installation & Readme (Sorry, but nobody likes a PDF tongue.gif ), Integration, Modifying (Language, Modding, and Skinning), and Misc for creativity points, etc.

Although not everyone can win, we would like to congratulate those who tried, gave all their effort, and participated.

In 5th place, with 18.22 points: FEATURED TOPICS by ProfessorP.

Featured Topics Programming Team Score:
Interface: 7.25
Security: 0
Theme: 7
Installation & Readme: 5.5
Integration: 5.25
Language/Skinning/Modding: 6.57
Misc: 7.25


In 4th place, with 21 points: GLOBAL ANNOUNCEMENT by The Unfried Chicken.

Global Announcement Programming Team Score:
Interface: 7.5
Security: 10
Theme: 7.25
Installation & Readme: 6.5
Integration: 8
Language/Skinning/Modding: 5.75
Misc: 3.5

I would like to thank you both for participating. You are both excellent modders and I hope to see you participating in our events and contests.

In third place, with 31.33 points is MEMBER TEAMS by compguy11. Congratulations!

Member Teams Programming Score
Interface - 9.5
Security - 9.25
Theme - 9.5
Installation & Readme - 7.25
Integration - 7.75
Language/Skinning/Modding - 8.25
Misc - 9


In FIRST PLACE , with 55.87, beating second place by 1/10th of a point is

IPB Widgets by Justin!!!!

IBP Widgets Programming Team Score
Interface - 9.25
Security - 9.25
Theme - 10
Installation & Readme - 9
Integration - 7
Language/Skinning/Modding - 8
Misc - 9.5


And AH Modding's Socialiser in Second place.

Socialiser Programming Team Score
Interface - 9.5
Security - 7.75
Theme - 9.75
Installation & Readme - 9
Integration - 6.25
Language/Skinning/Modding - 6.25
Misc - 8.75


I must overly use this expression, but aren't they all winners? I would like to congratulate everyone on their great efforts. For the winners, please contact me to accept your prizes.

Invisionize will be down for upgrades Friday, January 18th morning around 3am EST. The downtime is expected to last up to one hour. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

As of tonight, we will be merging all the staff members and team members into two single groups. This is because over the past couple months, all teams have started crossing into each other's territories in order to help with overflow. Members from some teams have also been participating in projects (particularly coding) with members of other teams. So, to complete the process, we thought, "Hey, lets just make two big teams!"

All staff members will still have the same primary areas of responsibilities as before. For example, former Programming Team members will have a primary task of approving Mod and Tool submissions. However, you may see them crossing over from time to time. Likewise, the former team admins will still have primary responsibilities of overseeing those sections and the people working on them.

The Site Manager and Management groups will remain separate teams.

Over the next few days, we will be working on ways for members to see which staff members have primary responsibilities for which sections, including making avatars and indicating such areas of responsibilities in their signatures.

Come one! Come All! Step right up and vote for the mod you think is the best!

Grande Modification
Simply vote in our poll for which mod you think is the biggest, greatest mod of the year 2007!

Mod of the Year
Following up on the all the Best Voted mods of the months, semi-annual, and finally Year!

So hurry on up and vote!

Change is abound here at Invisionize. To that extent, we are proud to announce the position of Site Manager.

The Management team will become chiefly responsible for the behind-the-scenes running of Invisionize, including server issues, fund-raising, and the overall direction of the site. While Management will still be active in the community and will have a hand in the running of the site, the Site Manager position will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the site, including dealing with member issues, staffing, and making sure submissions are being accepted. The Site Managers will also a joint role with Management in seeing that Invisionize projects are completed.

Basically, if you have a question or concern, and cannot get to a team or admin member, the Site Manager will be your chief point of contact.

For this position, we have chosen long time Community Admin Bondian. I will also work with Bondian as a Site Manager, as well as continuing my Management duties.

We thank Bondian for accepting our selection of him. We're looking forward to a new year for Invisionize, with the Site Manager position begun, and much more to come!

This is a reminder to all that you guys have ONE WEEK left to submit modifications for the GRANDE MODIFICATION COMPETITION.

If there are not enough entries, the contest will be extended for an extra week.

If you have any questions or comments please send a message to me or any member of the Programming Team.

Discussion Topic | Submission Topic

Grande Modification Competition

Hello, we are beginning the new Grande Modification Competition. This competition is to promote all you great modders out there. Will you have what it takes to get to the top? Will YOU have what it takes to develop the best, the fastest, the hardest, the strongest modification?


And to top it off, will you win any of these great prizes?:

• Category A
  • $50 Paypal!
  • $25 Paypal!
  • $15 Paypal
• Category B
  • Domain Hosted by NameCheap.com for TWO years!
  • Web Hosting by ASmallOrange.com (Medium Plan) for TWO MONTHS!
• Category C
  • 50,000 AdView Impressions on Invisionize.com!
  • 30,000 AdView Impressions on Invisionize.com!
  • 25,000 AdView Impressions on Invisionize.com!

First place will be able to choose three prizes: one from Category A, one from Category B, and one from Category C.

Second place will choose one prize from Category A, the remaining prize from Category B, and one prize from Category C.

Third place will receive the remaining prizes.

Do You Have What It Takes to Become The Grande Modder?

You have to submit a modification, either new or of previous work. Your modification should if possible:

• Be well designed, with an easy to use interface (Creative or original interfaces encouraged!)
• Be secure, containing no intentional or unintentional back doors, injections, or unprotected data.
• Be able to be installed on a variety of IPB themes.
• Contain an easy to read, well designed set of instructions
• Contain as few file edits as possible.
• Make use of the IPB developer APIs and functions where possible.
• Be developer friendly (language packs/re-skinning/modifying)
• Contain an accurate description, with instructions detailing its functions.
• BE IPB 2.3 COMPATIBLE
• Be Creative

You may place a visible copyright in one area, and must not be a nuisance. Violations will be rejected and asked to remove the copyright.

Modifications will not be accepted if they do not belong to you. You must have joined before December 5, 2007 and have at least 20 posts to enter this competition.

You may not vote if you have not joined before December 5, 2007 or do not have 30 posts. You may only vote once. You may not vote with more than one account. All votes will be logged and verified. We will disqualify votes that appear invalid.

Submissions will not be accepted after December 29, 2007.
Voting will begin on January 2, 2007.
Voting will be closed on January 17, 2007, allowing users to install the modifications..

The Programming Team will also review each mod, and submit their own vote, but our vote will count for 30% of your total score.

The final scores will be tallied up and the winner will be announced.

SUBMIT YOUR MODIFICATIONS HERE:
http://forums.invisionize.com/index.php?showtopic=131646


Do you have what it takes? Let's begin!


By submitting an entry to the competition you accept the terms and conditions as above. Once the results are announced, the winners will be contacted by FusE, requesting for information for prizes. No information will be used outside of distributing prizes or against any submitter. By entering this competition you agree that your modification will be up for download, is secure, safe, and compatible with IPB 2.3. You agree that your modification does not contain any backdoors, injections, or possible harm. You agree that your modification will not collect any data from users. In the case of a tie, a secondary vote will be taken into account by the Management. All decisions are final. Invisionize and it's staff are not responsible if your modification is redistributed/altered. Dates are subject to change at any time.


Discussion Topic

The competition is now closed and the results are as follows:

We had nine entries and 77 votes.

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In first place with 35% of the votes is Invisionize Envy by MetalFrog

In second place with 19% of the votes is Blue Aspiration by FusE

In third place with 16% of the votes is Invision Undertones by Kim

Congratulations to these three who win the prizes.

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The rest of the entries finished with the following votes:

Nighttime by flesh_magick with 12% of the votes
Eclipse by xghozt with 10% of the votes
IPB Spring by FDR with 3% of the votes
Underlight Style by Soi with 3% of the votes
Dark Magic by mdgshorty with 1% of the votes
CS-Dark by Primted with 1% of the votes.

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Would the MetalFrog, FusE and Kim please contact me with their details so their prizes can be sent to them.


Thanks to everyone for entering - we had a set of such high quality skins - and massive congratulations to those who made the placements.

A heads up to all who may not have noticed that the entries for the skin competition are all in. We've had nine great entries and we want the IZE community to vote on which it thinks is best.

Head on over to this topic to make yourself heard and help to win one of our skinners a great prize.