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i go for vBadvanced Homepage :)

Tried both and found that I like vBadvanced Homepage cos it reminds me of vbhome :)

heres my views :

vbindex - Not user friendly enough... there is no uninstallation link for you to click and uninstall and you have to do it manually... You cannot select more then 1 news forum to be displayed on the index page (correct me if I am wrong)

vbadvanced - pretty much similar to vbhome... so you will definitely feel comfortable with it. Comes with an easy uninstallation link for you to click.

It allows as many news forums as you require. And as I've said a million times, an uninstaller will be provided once vB3 and vBindex have gone final. Not user friendly? Well most of the feeback suggests otherwise, however do feel free to expand on that statement, I just don't see how it can be made much more friendly then 'Tick this box is you want this' ;)

well it can be a little more user friendly if u can start releasing the uninstallation part without waiting for vb3 gold and vbindex final...


by the way notice if u can improved on the calendar size... its looks out of shape when we select weekends on. :)

The calendar looks fine in the latest version as the sidebars automatically expand to take into account the extra ~100px the calendar takes up.

Both vBindex and vBadvanced are free, great, and powerfull.

Correct me If I'm wrong, But none of them include the "Category" notion for news display. News are just a continual flow of data without organization. :ermm:

Can we expect the implementation of it in the future ?

the calendar with weekends, that's the second problem of vbindex after an uninstall script.
vbindex is great with custom blocks to right or left with your like
both portal is very good anyways.

if by catagories you mean topics.. similar to what *nuke sites offer.. you can do that by using multiple news forums.. almost inherintly built in.. support would have to be added for using topic/catagory images.. but i think that is what you are talkin bout..

i use vbportal 2.3.0 right now and like it.. but growing tired of it.. front page has too damn many queries on it.. both vbadvanced and vbindex seem to be nice additions with minimal queries..

i am basically waiting on the vbwar, a great DL/Review/Links set of hacks, HTL, and a couple others.. thank god arcade is ready.. :D

but i am also having trouble deciding between vbindex and vbadvanced.. would be good to see some type of module support.. but since i have yet to play with either of them, i have no idea how hard it is to write your own sideblocks yet..

I use vbindex on http://www.rapcheck.com and am very happy with it. Didn't try vbadvanced and there was no particular reason I chose vbindex over it but I'm happy with the choice. I like most being able to add a page to my site just by adding a new template, and the page will cary the vbindex layout. Makes things easy. Also great support.