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Originally Posted by lasto

im not saying it aint got any decent features - im just saying it looks crap to be honest which it does.It needs a complete make-over american style
You tell me that portal dont look like invision boards to you - the features are good but the whole style needs serious work to be considered as a front end for many vb boards.

mmm...what do you mean by complete make-over american style? since i'm not an american and neither were all of my friends who are vb forum owners, what i can say is any portal must have a universal appeal and who are you to suggest that portals must be "americanized"?. is this some kind of racial superiority complex? that all things american are well-above all things? mkportal was created by an italian so that must be the reason why you are soo prejudice. you must realize that there are also many vb users in Asia who prefer a more relax and great looking front end for their portal including me. what looks crap to you maybe decent to us. users decide what they want to use according to their preference so your comments about mkportal looking like crap is an INSULT to hundreds who have already installed this portal. your comments are totally uncalled for and is biased in my opinion. i would be interested to see how your portal looks like to see what you mean by the word "decent". may i see your vb board please?

and just to let you know that i'm also a vbportal user. i bought a license for it but after a lot of frustration installing it, i just gave up. the front end of it looks ugly to me too. then i tried vbadvanced but it is much too complicated. you have to hack the forum to install it and you also have to manage it inside the vbulletin admin panel. now that's where the difference starts.. with mkportal, you don't have to modify a single vbulletin file nor the db so you can upgrade anytime without worrying about any modification you have done. you need to modify only a single file if you want the forum to display inside the portal. with vbadvanced however, you can't upgrade to a newer vbulletin version without ruining your site. you have to reinstall everytime you install a new vb version.

but don't get me wrong, i like vbadvanced when i first installed it but i find it too complicated to manage especially when you want to create a block or install a module. you have to do several steps to get it done whilst at mkportal, adding a module or creating a block is a very simple process. you don't have to go to your vb admin panel to do it, everything is manageable right from inside the mkportal admin panel.

and yep, the main mkportal uses invisionboard coz that's where they made the portal for but too many requests have been sent and so the developer decided to create a version to integrate it also with SimpleMachine, phpBB, Oxygen and yes, vBulletin as per CP's request. actually, CP was the first to use the MKPortal for vbulletin and now the live example of the MKPortal-vBulletin integration.

well, this is just my opinion as an end user who tried all the available portals and can really opine on which has given me what i really want and not what people say i should...

my two cents.

Afterglow