Advise needed for creating a index page for my site.
 

Hello,
I am a newbie to this website, though I have browsed from time to time.

I have a website http://www.echarcha.com/ which has been running for 4 years now. I started with vBulletin 1.x versions and have upgraded over the years till version 2.4. Then I could not keep up with updates due to increased work, etc.

The main page which you see on my website is written by me. I had studied the database structure and had written PHP queries.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I wanted advise from you about which index page script I should use once I upgrade to the latest vBulletin3.0 version.

I see many such scripts here but dont know which to use. My server is not a dedicated server but gives fairly good response times. I dont have a ton of traffic but usually 200 people are online throughout the day.

Thanks in advance for your advise and help.

admin@echarcha.com

Your usage stats seem about the same as mine, I've always used vBAdvance, while it was mYvBindex too. I just made the switch to vBAdvanced CMPS so I'd recommend that for your needs.

Thank you very much for the information. I just hope that this page you suggest does not use too many SQL queries.

On that note since I upgraded to CMPS from the standard edition I have found my homepage and such powered pages loading a little slower than usual - not sure if this has something to do with the query count or not.

vBadvanced CMPS, has differnt moduals, which can be enabled / disabled.

If you Just want news and the navbar, header and footer, thats all youll get ;)

vBadvanced CMPS is much more customisable so i personally would go with that. It enables you to add more pages via the admincp and moduals. Take a look over at
http://www.vbadvanced.com is the best advice i can give.

Good luck with the upgrade and welcome to vb.org :)