I'm telling you.. Expression Engine. You create an events weblog, create custom fields/categories/whatever, and pull it into your templates.. That simple, really. You could easily set parameters to sort by location, date, etc.

I'm a novice (but learning!) developer. Are you saying that Expression Engine can be pulled into my site and inherit it's style?

Cheers KT will check it out.

Ste

A little confused by what you mean, but hopefully this answers your question. There are a couple ways to put css into EE, you can have a standard "css" folder in your site root directory and just include them that way, or you can create an EE template for "styles". The benefit of the latter is to be able to use EE tags in your stylesheets (setting variables to change background images, etc).. But as far as your existing site goes, it would need to be ported into EE's template system so you can use their weblog entries tag and parameters to pull data. The only thing you actually have to learn is the way to call EE data (it's pretty simple, really.. an example would be: {title}), the rest is all standard HTML. If you can code HTML, you can create some awesome sites with EE, I promise.

The best way to describe EE is to think of it as a highly configurable CMS backend while giving you full control over the markup / display for the front end. You tell it what data to store, then you pull that data into your own html, making it extremely flexible as far as layout goes.

Train-ee has an excellent tutorial to follow, it's pretty long, but I didn't have to read through the whole thing to get a good understanding of it. It helped me out with all the, "Crap.. I'm new to this, where do I start?" questions.

i use etomite. check it out http://www.etomite.org/

EE Rocks! It is by far my favorite CMS.. TypeO is pretty damn good as well tho

So then is your site theme a subdreamer theme or a vbulletin theme?

Hey - I responded to your PM earlier:

Hi - Yes http://wlsjourney.org is a subdreamer install with integrated vBulletin. The style is a subdreamer skin actually - a heavily customized subdreamer skin.... The vBulletin style was created to match the subdreamer skin, otherwise the community forums running vBulletin would simply be the default vB style. ;)

Jacquii.

Joomla is good and easy to use.

I personally second the Joomla CMS. I use it on many of my other domains. But have yet to integrate it into my vB forum since im quite content with vBadvanced. as a forum CMS solution.