I Regret Buying Publishing Suite

[8thos]

This is a pain. I've been able to customize my forums just fine.

But CMS is more difficult and not intuitive at all whatsoever. I don't like the look of my blogs either.

I asked a guy at work who says he's a professional web developer and he said he'd do it but he hasn't gotten back to me.

So I made a request in the paid services forum and haven't heard anything from anyone yet.

This is what... around $300 that could've been better wasted in a strip club and I don't even go to strip clubs.

On top of that I discovered WebTemplates, which I should've downloaded and installed instead of buying CMS.

Oh well. You live and you learn.

/end rant.

I would like to open up my forum for the public and for review but my site feels incomplete without a main page which is why I bought the publishing suite in the first place.

[your24hourstore]

<a href="http://your24hourstore.com" target="_blank">check this site out see what you think</a>

[8thos]

check this site out see what you think (http://your24hourstore.com)Oh My God That's Perfect!!! How can I get that?

[Lynne]

Octavius, that is just a basic CMS page with quite a few widgets. Have you read any of the documentation at all?
How To: CMS (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/content.php?151-How-To-CMS)

[8thos]

Octavius, that is just a basic CMS page with quite a few widgets. Have you read any of the documentation at all?
How To: CMS (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/content.php?151-How-To-CMS)Actually...

no. :p

[cad2go]

Actually...

no. :p

:D

lol

[8thos]

Maaaan. I have my plate full at the moment. I shouldn't have even made this thread. I know I could do it if I read the manual though. Just don't have the time. I've mostly been figuring everything out by myself though. I'm pretty smart. Just a noob. I've probably spent 10 hours a week studying vb4 and its mods and adding, uninstalling stuff, customizing etc. Crashed the forum several times, learned how to back-up and upgrade vb4 etc. My forum looks pimped-out now. Just a couple hiccups left and a horrible-looking CMS that I've disabled. I guess it might take me another month or two then I'll be satisified.

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My Home Page looks horrible.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/10/31.jpg

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I'm going to create a YouTube video blog about this and I'll post it in a moment.

[Lynne]

You page just needs a bit of styling and then it should be fine. You'll get it!

[your24hourstore]

from what i see .its a conflict with the background, get rid of that background and stay within the original design unless your going to go completely the other way with css and stuff

then go in and edit each story section and catagory you will figure it out pretty fast. baby steps at first though

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

This is a pain. I've been able to customize my forums just fine.

I would like to open up my forum for the public and for review but my site feels incomplete without a main page which is why I bought the publishing suite in the first place.

Have no time to explain in details, just download and check it.
http://www.microhellas.com/microCMS.zip


Maria

[MylesM]

You could always use Wordpress? I did that when i was on vBulletin 4

You could also use vb advanced :P

You'll get the hang of it though. Like Lynne said it just needs a bit of styling!

[Bradley_Wint]

In my opinion, the vb CMS is still a long way from being a good publishing suite. For my sites, Im hardcore wordpress for news and vb for forums. If you are running a high traffic site, Wordpress would be your best bet if your front page gets lots of traffic (with right caching methods of course)...you'd see it in the server bill difference. Plus it's very customizable for the less code-savvy user as compared to vb.

[8thos]

You page just needs a bit of styling and then it should be fine. You'll get it!Your right! It looked okay and some members even prefer my old vBulletin CMS to the new Wordpress home page but I couldn't get a working slider. That's the number one reason I looked for an alternative CMS.

Have no time to explain in details, just download and check it.
http://www.microhellas.com/microCMS.zip


MariaYou not only have no time for details, you also have no time for supporting your products. I'm not sure if you've ever answered one of my questions in any of your product's threads lol. I downloaded it but I'm glad I didn't bother installing it. Thanks for the offer.
You could always use Wordpress? I did that when i was on vBulletin 4

You could also use vb advanced :P

You'll get the hang of it though. Like Lynne said it just needs a bit of styling!I thought about using vbAdvanced but after buying the publishing suite, it felt retarded having to buy another CMS.
In my opinion, the vb CMS is still a long way from being a good publishing suite. For my sites, Im hardcore wordpress for news and vb for forums. If you are running a high traffic site, Wordpress would be your best bet if your front page gets lots of traffic (with right caching methods of course)...you'd see it in the server bill difference. Plus it's very customizable for the less code-savvy user as compared to vb.

This is the best post in this thread. I don't even remember seeing this before. Maybe I saw your post and thought you were speaking in a foreign language cause I had no idea what you were talking about. I was really inexperienced back then.

Recently, I tried to merge my site with Joomla's JFusion plugin.

That was a fail as the latest version of Joomla and the latest version of vBulletin are not compatible. JFusion also installs a plugin in your vBulletin installation without telling you.

So I looked up Drupal VB, Drupaltin and vBDrupal and they were all out of date and not working with the latest version of Drupal and some did not work with vBulletin4 period.

Next step, Wordpress. Mission Success. Wordpress As vBulletin4 Homepage (http://www.the8thlegion.com/threads/20043-Wordpress-As-vBulletin4-Homepage)

[vbresults]

Well, if you have the publishing suite instead of just the forum, you can get ticket support for more than 30 days after your purchase of nearly $200.

Not that it's a good thing. :D

[thecore762]

vBulletin CMS is still beta, that's the way I think about it.
I honestly think vBAdvanced is a much better option, easy to setup and install and configure.
The blogs option is nice for the CMS, but the front page just looks terrible, no matter how much styling you do. Those blocks just look terrible.
I have yet to run into a nice front page that looks really good.
I'll keep using vBadvanced until vB decides to make vB CMS easier to edit and configure and makes it look better.
I was a vB CMS owner, and I won't try it again until it has been perfected.

[8thos]

Holy mother of God your site is awesome.

[thecore762]

Thanks, took a while to perfect the theme, but finally everything came together.
This theme front page would not look good with the vBCMS, just didn't look right.

I hope to see better improvements in the future for vB CMS.