vBindex vs. vBadvanced Homepage
 

Ok...i'm in some thinking now. I need a site. A vBulletin integrated in a site. I have vB 3 RC2.

What hack do you recommand to use ?

I'm interested in a...useful site. I need callendar, posibility to add news, new categoryes, etc.

Well...both seems to look very good. I have seen some sites that uses vBadvanced but i havn't see vBindex yet.

Can you help me on this one ?

thanx

EDIT : Ah...i can't edit the POLL question. I mean PORTAL !

www.tfogame.com uses vBindex last time i checked
http://www.digitalkore.net/ uses vBadvanced :)

imo each are good in their own respects, setup a test forum or two and compare your self :)

my site is currently running vbindex. with it you can do all of what you need and more. however, vbadvanced looks to be just as capable. i'm considering installing vbadvanced to see how it works and if it's more to my liking.

you can easily find sites running it at vbindex's homepage. of course, their site currently runs it. ;) you can also see my clan's site for a near vanilla vb3/vbindex look at vbindex. we're in process of designin a new look and the only modifications of the default vbindex is adding an irc info box and removing the 'welcome box' that goes on top of the news. oh, and the news icons aren't proprely setup for vbindex. we've carried those over from when we used vb2/vb home lite.

oh, and you may like to know the support at coreforums has been great. they're nice and responsive folks.

Hard hard choice. But i think i will try vBadvanced Homepage. The site that you show me, site's ho use vBindex don't look to good.

I'm interested in a posibility to use menus both on right and left...and most important posibility to add categoryes.

my front page is modifyed, it isnt default :)

Thats not the best example of vBindex in action ;) vBindex does allow both columns, its a simple switch in the ACP, I'd do as faranth suggested, install both on a test board and find the one that suits.

Some better demos

http://www.artorg.co.uk (although they've set the permissions wrong and guests can't view the news :p)
http://www.coreforums.net/ (the offical site)
http://www.dcevoclub.com/
http://www.hr3rdgen.org/

*cough*
I know this is lame, but... I know that I'll prefer my own new Newsportal / Modules Manager combination....

it's just the coolness factor of having an entire frontpage Portal run through only 3 lines of code, that alone would do it for me, but it's so much more than that... :D

Mine uses vbIndex...see it here --> www.dpclan.us

they both do the same thing (pretty much) ... the best way to choose the "right" system is to compare/contrast features/query/speed of site. What's more important is the speed of the site ... you don't want a site that does little query but takes forever to load (not implying anything).

Another thing, the big portal softwares out there is just a waste of space and time. Which in the long run will cost you money (time is money). vB3 has all the power you need. You just need an imagination, ability, and not be afraid to hack files.

Don't get me wrong their are some "portal software" that may suit your needs (especially if you are not strong with hacking files); but, the majority just adds redundant files/code/tables/queries.

An example of redundancy ...
adding a "journal"
adding a "reviews"
adding a "news system"
... they all use the same fields so, why create a new table/queries? Presentation of data is the only thing that is different.

Before you say "there are more fields in reviews" ... I will say add them to an existing table. Utilize what vb has then add if needed.

This approach is not for everyone.

Not entirely true. In some cases, when you keep things basic, a journal, a review and a news system may all indeed present this data structure:

- title
- text
- optional conclusion
- optional icon/image to go with it


But from the start, a Journal is taken care of entirely differently. The way to present the data is not just different in HTML but also in queries that fetch the data. Plus, there's generally different things you want in such systems, and just doing it via a field-management system won't always cut it, by far.