Recreating My Site In VB: How Would You Do This?

[vasudeva]

I've been considering rebuilding my site, LinkSwarm, in vBulletin.

Have a look at it and see what it's composed of. It's essentially links, forums, journals, and some smaller content types. Right now it's based on PHPNuke, which I've modified a lot over the years.

Now, obviously VB is going to blow the doors off the forum stuff, which is very cool. I know there's a few journal-type mods available for VB. My main concern is the links.

I'm not finding much out there to enable VB to do the type of link site I run now. There's a couple directory hacks which I could modify, but I'd much rather look for something robust and integrated with the admin cp. vBAdvanced Links Directory is about the best I can find, but I'm not eager to pay $35 just to have a look at the code and see if it suits my needs, and the demo sites don't do much to convince me either. Here's a great featurelist I found and cached a copy of; I'd gladly pay for any tool that did all of this.

I'm new to this world so I'll appreciate any input you have on the subject, either on the links thing or the larger idea of converting from one site format to another.