[milhous]

Just wanted to say that you guys did a great job on the transition to the new forum software. I'm also very impressed that you were able to give the new software the same look and feel as the one from UBB.

I was really concerned that the new forums were going to look like the more bread -n butter site that they run on macosx.com. But you really lived up to your word.

Just wondering, did the vBulletin folks actually give you a conversion application/utility to move the UBB data to vB?

Again, thanks for making the boards better and FASTER!

[gorgonzola]

Thanks, we really appreciate it.

As for the conversion utility, vB comes with an import script that converts all the forums, threads, members, and stylesheets into vB format and drops them into the database, but the look of the site isn't translated over. Editing the templates to make it look like this was the real effort on our part; and as you said, I think it paid off.

The quality of vB's import utility was one of the main reasons for using it instead of over competing PHP/SQL forum products.