Can vBa portal do this?

[11:11]

Just wondering if vBadvanced portal is able to create friendly URLs e.g. forum.com/design or
forum.com/design/education. Also is it posible to change the look of each portal category?

Or would I be better off creating a HTML website and just use RSS to show polls, articles(using a hack), and featured posts on my HTML category index pages? Would this be a straightforward task? I think I found software that can let me use the RSS from a particular forum and show it on the HTML main pages...would this be very intensive on a server?

Appreciated.

[Zachery]

That would be somthing like using mod_rewrite, and its not part of vBa by default.

[Reeve of shinra]

By default vb3 provides rss, xml and javascript syndication so you could just put the javascript in your html page. The friendly url's would be an apache thing using mod_rewrite as Zachary said.

[11:11]

Great, I think a HTML site would make more sense. I also looked up mod_rewrite and I think it can put a lot more strain on the server if you get a lot of visitors.

Also is it possible to show a poll and let people vote from a HTML page like on the vBadvanced homepage. This would be using RSS/XML etc. ?

Another reason i'm not keen on vBa is that I dont know if it will be easy to use a CSS pop-out menu navigation. Although I am currently trying to find vBa portals that look completeley different from the default which may make me reconsider.

[KW802]

... Although I am currently trying to find vBa portals that look completeley different from the default which may make me reconsider.For some examples of vBa CMPS ranging from simple to complicated try here: http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=50298&postcount=10