Anyone have some new opinions? This thread hasn't been very helpful so far.

I initially tried vBindex when I was moving my site to a new server and upgrading to vB3.01 in the process. I really thought the installation procedure was excellent with vBindex, very straightforward and almost hands free. The output, even though very nice, was not aesthetically what I was looking for ... maybe I got to used to vBhome lite for vB2 and was a little uncomfortable with the new scheme.

A couple days later, as I was incorporating hacks to my vB, I decided to try vBadvanced CMPS, just to see what I was missing. I instantly liked the setup. Installation wasn't as easy as vBhome (although it wasn't really tricky or troublesome either), but once I had it set up, I liked what I saw both in the frontend and backend and decided to switch to it from vBindex immediately. vBadvanced reminded me more of vBhome, which is probably why I was more comfortable with it (otherwise, I would have stayed with vBindex, as it is also an excellent hack).

Took me a while to try and incorporate my own left menubar to the clumn setup (always something I had to deal with when I try portal addons like vBportal, vBhome, etc). But I have gotten it to something I can work with properly.

http://www.opentechsupport.net


I am not yet done with my modifications, hence the missing copyright info at the bottom as well as other links, but I'll be able to complete my layout by this weekend :D

Just my two cents...

i have tested all portals at one time or another and have come to the conclusion that vbadvanced is by far the easiest to mod, i dont need seperate skin files like you do with some portals. but like all hacks it needs editing to fit with the forum, lol i don't know any hack i have used that didn't

I signed up on the VBAdvanced site but never received the confirmation email. I sent a message to the moderator but haven't heard back from him/her as of yet. Anyone know what's going on?

There is a site feedback area, try posting there or in the general area :) i cant do much for you either.

Out of my personal taste, I prefer vBIndex. It's just a great piece of code. :)