[Biggles64]

Originally Posted by Chris8

Your post mate was very long I doubt most will go into effort to read through it.

Sadly, Chris, I think you are right when you say 'most' will not bother to read my post. It may be more accurate to say that same 'most' cannot focus their attention long enough to read anything more than just a few words, such is the standard of education in the Western World these days. That said, you read through it and have answered it, so there are still 'some' out there who do take the time to read, thank goodness.

Originally Posted by Chris8

For today vB5 is unknown, vB4 will have further bug fixes and possibly additions and it's descendant of vB3 unlike vB5. vB3 well, they said there won't be any further support but as you can see they decided to fix php 5.4 compatibility so, hard to say but there is a vb.org community support still. For today the most certain support and bug fixes will be provided to vB4 so maybe that should be your 1st choice. (myself I like vb3 and I'm not going to update as 1. I don't like it. 2 It would be almost impossible after 4 years of customization). But if the vB5 will have future and it will be enhanced to the point of client satisfaction then in some point they may drop vb4 support as well.

Helpful comment, thank you. And it leads me to ask you whether, if I load vB3, is it possible to upgrade it to vB4 at an early stage - like before I have made any mods - without too much difficulty?

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Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

As far as you question goes, if you're looking for which will be easier for you, it's not really going to matter. Both will demand the same level of technical skill from you. Other than one having a few more features than the other, and their being a distinction between how styles are edited (and you'll get differing opinions as to which is considered easier to style), they're fundamentally the same as far as administrating goes. So, really, you'll only get people's favorites when it comes to that question.

Thanks DJ. You have reminded me of what caused me some particular difficulty with using vB4 in that I couldn't make head nor tail of how to change anything using CSS. As I recall, I found it relatively easy to make my own alterations to style code using vB3 but could never work out how to do the same thing using vB4's CSS-based layout.

Ooops! I see my second post is again joined to my earlier one, making the post rather long. Oh dear.

Regards

Biggles