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I am planning to deploy a new web site, hopefully commercial within the next few months.

I am 90% sure it will be vB.

First a side note of annoyance: Not being able to click and see large views of the screen shots without a license is... well counter intuitive. I am interested in vB, but how do I know if I have to look at a 800x600 image shrunk to 100px x 60px? There is no way for me to tell if the result is what I am looking for. Sorry but most descriptions presume that I am an owner of vB already and that I know all the details. "Just flip the gizmo, on the widget and it will dingle the watchamacallit." Most hacks do not include an example. Extreem annoyance.

As I said I am planning to deploy a hopefully large scale community.

I saw several CMS, but the two that seem to have the most support/add-ons and features are vBadvanced CMPS and VBIndex.

I would like to have the following hacks installed. I am aware some are commercial but that is not an issue.

1. vBAuction
2. vBadvanced Links
3. Reoccuring Paypal Subscriptions
4. vBChat or flashChat
5. vBSurvey
6. VB-O-GRAM

My questions:

1. Which CMS works well with the above list of hacks?
2. Which chat system is more stable, smoother, and works well with the selected CMS & vB?
3. Which CMS has more features?
4. Which hack works best with the selected CMS, and provides advertising boxes/modules/whatevers on forum and non-forum pages (Google, Amazon, ComissionJuction, LinkShare, B&N, Doubleclick, etc.)?
5. Is there a "hack" that allows the easy creation of static pages using the default or current template/skin?
6. What would be the estimated time to install vB, and the above list of hacks?
7. How well these hacks work with languages (i.e. all use language selections)?
8. How easy are these hacks to manage through Control Panel?
9. How well these hacks work with templates/skins (i.e. all use active template/skin)?
10. Are there alternatives that are better (smoother management, seemless to vB and others, etc.)?
11. Are there any other hacks that would be of general interest, or aspecially used in most vB community sites I missed?
12. Where would be the area(s) & sites to hire a programmer, a designer, a copyrighter whom are experts with vB?

Thank you.

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