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We are looking for a new website design...currently we are using wordpress, which was fine when we were small, but we are growing very fast now. What content managment system do you sugest we use? If other, please post what you have in mind.

i'd go with the phpbb portal... The current thing is not that bad, though I feel the site needs just a little more. Installing one of the gigantic portals would just be confusing, plus you don't really need it.

which one...could you give me a link to one?

errr, i don't know any... I've never really had a need for a portal... I did a quick search:
extremephpbb looks nice - http://www.extremephpbb.com/
mixBB too - http://www.mx-system.com/

PHPX 3 is a completely rewritten CMS, portal, forums compared to version 2. Version 3 changed the way programming of PHPX was approached and introduced PHPX to Object Oriented programming (OOP). This allows PHPX 3 to be extremely flexiable, easy to modify, maintainable, and simple for the users.

PHPX is written in PHP, a popular web programming language. PHPX, like PHP itself, is open source. Meaning there are no fees, no contracts, and you can modify as much or as little as you want. Use it out of the box, or modify it as you need to create your own specilized web presence.


http://www.phpx.org/9.php

hm looks nice, we just may use that.

We better not be changing forum systems now, I just made my shell request system intergrate with phpbb!

I can suggest u to use e107 portal.. http://www.e107.org/news.php , it is free, and not hard to use.. I use it on one of my web pages.. ( www.niscafe.com ) .. u can integrate phpbb with e107...

I have used Mambo in a few cases and found it to be very capable and scaleable. It does have it's shortcomings, but they are easily fixed with some simple PHP work. The template system works well and the ability to add modules and components makes it as simple or complex as you want. Writing components is pretty easy. Mambo has a very large developer community that create components, modules, mambots, and hacks for just about any situation you can think of (http://www.mamboforge.com). If you do need to create your own component/module, it's fairly easy to do. Best of all it doesn't seek to create an information overload like phpnuke is infamous for. I also appreciate that Mambo works with mysql faster than most CMSs I've tried.

I just noticed this CMS called Website Baker, it looks quite nice.
http://tim.flyserver.net/phoecms/
Theres an example, krod and nighthawk can have the login info if they wish (ask on IRC or PM or whatever)

Some templates on this page:
http://stefan-braunewell.de/wb/pages/te ... lue_swizzy
I quite like the one I choose there

krod wrote:We are looking for a new website design...currently we are using wordpress, which was fine when we were small, but we are growing very fast now. What content managment system do you sugest we use? If other, please post what you have in mind.

In my opinion, the content is what matters, but it is true; well shaped web design is more attractive to (most of) the people. I would choose phpnuke anyway ...

However, if i may, i would strongly suggest introducing new forum: Unix/Linux because it would cover most of the stuff we daily do on such boxes and is not related to programming or scripting. I have to emphasize also 'unix', because i'm sure, that some people also work with proprietary unices (as i do) like aix or sunos, even bsd, though not proprietary (or even system V!!!). If someone (administrators, naturally) likes the idea ...

i would suggest MamboCMS... Definitly! I have been using it for about 2-3 years now and its a very good CMS system... at the begining its a little hard to get known all the funcitons but then it just rocks. many people said that the "nuke era" will be over soon because of Mambo... anyway phpBB converted to a portal isn't that bad also...

If we used phpnuke I would either:
a) Break into phoenix-network.org's main FTP account and delete it or
b) Leave.

Mambo is so bloody common now, its nice to be different to everyone else we don't need any of the modules that come with it, any modules we need we would make ourselves.

i just wanna say just
MAMBO ROX
i use it and I like it very much!!!!

if somebody have some cool modules or templates for mambo..
pls send.... i need it.....