Top 25 Authors: Abble CoSa NoStrA (Nicolas Coustures)

[Patrick]

For the 10th anniversary celebration, I poured over years and years of contributions to name the top 25 authors in of the phpBBHacks.com era (2001-2011).

It was a difficult task, but I managed to do it. One of the 25 authors is Abble CoSa NoStrA (Nicolas Coustures).

A regular face in the phpBBHacks.com community for many years, Nicolas Coustures (Abble CoSa NoStrA) has released a wide array of styles and templates for both phpBB 2 and 3, including Soul City, which was the recipient of the Template/Style of the Year award in the phpBBHacks.com Awards 2008. He has ranked on the Top 5 Style/Template Authors of the Year lists for the last 3 years, as well.

His most popular works include the AceB Style Template, PSP Template, Buziness Board 2.0, Naruto Shippuuden and Coffee Time Olympus.

Check out my profile and interview with him here: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/10thanniversa ... stures.php

[Wicher]

Personally i have deep respect for those authors who created there own styles.
I tried to create a few myself but i never completed any because it is such an enormous job to create real good ones.
Without those nice styles the phpbb community would be a lot less succesfull.

[Patrick]

Well said, Wicher. Design and an eye for design are both great skills. Like, looking at Nicolas site ( http://www.cosa-nostra-design.com ), you can see that he took the graphic that I provided him with, commemorating this event and he applied it to the style of his site. Very artistic.

Nicolas has been one of the more consistent and excellent phpBB style designers in recent times. He's always been great to interact with, as well. Great guy.

Thanks,

Patrick