[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- How is vBNews different from vB Articles?

There are lot differencies between them. vbArticles is more specific for Reviews (maybe I need to change the name to vbReviews), while vbNews is specific to news publishing. To make it more clear. Even if vbNews also supports Rating this rating is goes to Article while in vbArticles is goes to Article AND Author. So a Member who has posts more artilces get rating the average rating of all his articles.

Except this point that vbArticles comes better, vbNews has much more other features like (maybe I'm forgetting some):

• Supports subcategories
• Supports chapters ideal for long articles, books, tutorials
• Supports attachments (pdf, zip)

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- I would be interested in using vbNews as my index page, as you have it here: http://www.madebymary.com/vbnews.php , would it be possible to also display information from the forums on the index page (ie: recent posts)

Only with custom work, but believe me if you're a bit familiar with PHP and Templates you can display anything you like there.

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- I'm unclear about how the navigation in the upper left corner works. Is it auto-generated by the categories, or is the navigation manually designated?

It's auto generating

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- Can an article be posted (automatically) in more than one category?

Never thought of it, but really its a valuable suggestion, so I marked it for the next upgrade. Thank you.

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- I see a search box for 'key words'. Are these added by the author at the time they write the article? Do they appear anywhere at the end or beginning of the article? Are they 'clickable' (in other words, assuming the keywords appear within an article, can a user click on the key word and then see a list of articles with that keyword?)

It's auto search in Title and Text body.

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- Will the DIGG mod work with vBNews?

Sorry, dont know it. Can you point me somewhere?

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- How specific are the author permissions?
Ideally, I would like to restrict posting of articles to one user group. Within that group, authors would only be able to edit their own articles. Is that possible?

It's more than "ideally", as you can restrict posting to a usergroupd even by category. eg Politics: Usergroup xxx ... Sports: Usergroup zzz etc etc

Originally Posted by pcoskat

- When, oh when, will your "club" mod be completed?? It sounds awesome!

At the end of this month (June)

Originally Posted by pcoskat

But in the meantime, I cannot tell you how happy I am to find vBNews. Simply Brilliant!

Thank you