Content Management, best way to go?

[Lars-Christian]

I am starting a new website of which the main focus will be the community part, but there will also be a content part, and I am looking for suggestions on how to achieve this in the best possible way.

My original plan was to go with Drupal and integrate it, since I like how well it can be integrated, and it is quite scalable. Unfortunately, after trying it out for some time, I have decided it would be a serious overkill for what I am trying to do, and most of the options that I hope to utilize at some point which Drupal offers, can also be achieved through modifications available here at vB.org.

Basically, what's important to me is that I am able to create a frontpage that's easily manageable with content and news. I have pondered about WordPress integration (since I love WP and use it for all my blogging needs), but I have decided that it would make the content and the community too seperated.

So what do you think would be the best way to go/modification to use? A good example of what I'm looking for would be AbsolutePunk.net (fantastic site, btw).

Thanks in advance for suggestions

I've looked around a bit, and I remember a year ago or so I used something similar to what AbsolutePunk.net has, that would let me post in a certain forum, and it would show up on the main page etc.

I was under the impression that this was vBadvanced, but I installed vBadvanced and it seems this works in a completely different way. Anyone care to enlighten me about what I'm looking for exactly?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Lars-Christian

... I've looked around a bit, and I remember a year ago or so I used something similar to what AbsolutePunk.net has, that would let me post in a certain forum, and it would show up on the main page etc.

I was under the impression that this was vBadvanced, but I installed vBadvanced and it seems this works in a completely different way. Anyone care to enlighten me about what I'm looking for exactly?

Yes, vBa CMPS allows you to post in one (or more) of your vB forums and then have it show up on your front page in the same fashion as AbsolutePunk. What kind of problem did you encounter?

[randy.]

Is that a custom made template?

[Lars-Christian]

Originally Posted by KW802

Yes, vBa CMPS allows you to post in one (or more) of your vB forums and then have it show up on your front page in the same fashion as AbsolutePunk. What kind of problem did you encounter?

I've looked into the modules a bit more, and I figured out how to set it up. It was a bit confusing at first (compared to vBa 1.x.x at least), but I got it eventually