[Heeeeelp]Looking for a good CMS

[Asso]

Hi all
I'm looking for a good CMS (integrated with vB, of course ) for my gaming portal.

I know about vPublish from teckwizards.com (will be a great product but i need now!), vContent (jelsoft must relase first vB 3.0.0 gold ) and Virtuanews but i'm looking for a CMS driven by templates (like vBHL for example, but improved)

Thanks!

[RDX1]

www.miraserver.com great cms, my site is driven by it ( www.nerdnations.com ) and the comments are intergrated with VB

Only downside, expensive

[irn-bru]

vBportal is good I have used it for 3 yrs.

Is it a true cms I am not going to debate that.

It intergrate's well with VB and has a good support community.

I think you can download the pr8.1 free, but for the newer one
3.0 you have to be a paid up member, but its not that much.

I havent tryed the 3.0 myself as I am awaiting the final vb3.0 before I take the long task of updateing my site.

[Dan]

but vBportal has a ton of queries.... I'd suggest vBhome lite or myvBindex

[Tony G]

I know alot, but not completly interegated with vB. They do use similar databasing etc. but thats not what you are looking for.

vBIndex or vBHome work well for interegated ones.

[irn-bru]

I dont know about querie's as with vbportal, vBIndex, vBHome but my site gets 9 thats with all the moudles loaded except for the news topics.

I dont know what vBIndex, vBHome do as I havent used them.

[Rose]

vBIndex is rather good, I think. I used it when I ran thesistersthree.com (which still uses, only now it's owned by the creator of vBindex!).

[bharvey42]

If you want to use a real CMS I suggest avoiding the stripped down PHP-Nuke (vBPortal). And give PostNuke a try, great CMS leaps and bounds ahead of PHP-Nuke.

[gmarik]

vBportal is no CMS.
There is no good CMS at the moment believe me, I've tested, bought several of them, but I don't like no one. HTMLEdit 2.0 is a good addon, the best WYSIYG tool at the moment, still needs integration. I'm working on my own vB integrated CMS tool, will be commercial, the only thing I know so far.

[cinq]

Its useless to say whats a good CMS and what's not without first even stating what you folks are using it for.

FYI I am using vbHome for my front page news , vbLinks Directory v2 for my links section , vbArticles v0.3 ( doing this hack btw ) for my articles , reviews and interviews section , Photopost v3.3.1 for my gallery.
And vb for my community forums of course.

Now everything is integrated ( photopost uses the vb user database but still got to do some slight design to make it look totally blended with the rest of your site ).

So basically you get one whole complete site going - on vB.

Who needs any other CMS
I personally haved used Postnuke for my site and eventually decided against it because its way too bloated for my needs.