Vbulletin is a forum software developed by Jelesoft and Vbulletin Solutions. It was first created in 1999 and originally called ubb.threads. Vbulletin 1.0 was officially released in 2000. Over time, newer versions like Vbulletin 3.0 and 4.0 were released with improved features such as a WYSIWYG editor, payment processing, mobile apps, and integration with Facebook. While popular, Vbulletin faces competition from other forum platforms like Invision Power Board and Xenforo.

1. Vbulletin
Kirk Hansen, Aaron King

2. What is Vbulletin??
 Vbulletinis forum community software
that was developed by Jelesoft and
Vbulletin Solutions which are subsidiaries
of Internet Brands.

3. History of Vbulletin
 In1999 James E. Limm and John Percival
were working on a project in visual in
basic and were also using a forum
software name ubb.threads.
 Later in Vbulletin in February 2000 they
decided to write their own solution but
were unfamiliar with the software’s code
and could not optimize it. But finally they
formed jelesoft and released Vbulletin v.1

4. What does Vbulletin have to
offer?
 Vbulletin offers many packages for their
products such as:
-Vbulletin Classic Forum License
-Vbulletin Publishing Suite License
-Mobile Suite
-Facebook Application for your community

5. Vbulletin Lite and version Vb2
 In 2000 Jelesoft released a Vbulletin lite
which was a degraded version of the
version 1 series allowing potential
customers
 In may2001 when version 2.0 came out
Jelesoft discounted Vbulletin lite due to it
was a non profit project and had a lot of
security issues

6. Vbulletin 3.X Series
 Version 3.0.0 Vbulletin was released on March
19,2004
 Vbulletin version 3 was a huge improvement
from version 2.
 Vbulletin 3 has a built in WYSWIG.
 Version 3 also adapted to allow XHTML & CSS.
 They also added a payment gateway system
that offers a lot of payment processing
systems such as PayPal and Alert pay.
 Now today Vbulletin V3.X Series no longer
receives Vbulletin support.

7. Vbulletin 4.X
 Vbulletin 4 was released to the public
back in December 2009.
 Vbulletin made 2 version of the version 4
series (Forum Classic, Vbulletin Publishing
Suite).
 The Publishing suite comes with a built in
blog system and content management
system(CMS)

8. Different Vbulletin 4 Products
$199
$99

9. The Mobile Suite
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuA5
wI1_9xw

10. Info About the Mobile Suite
 The Mobile suite was released in April 2011
 The Mobile suite edition allows you to
customize it to suite your site’s theme.
 It’s Currently Available for Android
Devices and Apple Ios Devices.

11. Vbulletin Facebook
Application
 http://youtu.be/wDIG5qRkWYM

12. Information About the
Vbulletin Facebook
 The Facebook was released in October
2011.
 It allows you to add your
community/forum site to your Facebook
page.
 Your Community will be added to
Vbulletin’s Facebook fan page
underneath “Our Friends”

13. Vbulletin 4 Vs. Other
Commercial Forum Software
 TodayVbulletin face a big competition
against other commercial Invision Power
Board and Xenforo.

14. Vbulletin 4 Vs. Invision Power
Board
Vbulletin 4 Invision Power Board
 More Security  Builtin mobile
 Built in Payment theme
Gate Way  Easier to use admin
 Built in Contact panel.
form  Cheaper in pricing

15. Did you know???
 InOctober 2010 Internet Brands filed a
lawsuit on Xenforo the day before they
were going to launch their product.
 Xenforo was sued for having some of
vbulletin’s code inside their forum
software.

16. Any Questions?
 Going ONCE!
 Going TWICE!!
 Last CHANCE!

17. Refrences
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XenForo
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBulletin
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuA5
wI1_9xw
 http://youtu.be/wDIG5qRkWYM