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llama64 · 06-13-2008, 10:17 AM

Drupal is pretty good, but I found it to require a crap load of work to maintain. That was a couple versions ago though.

How much dynamic content are you going to put on the front end site? If it's a moderate amount and there is really only one or two updater's, look into Wordpress. It's what powers the front of CP!

If you're just going to throw up a few informational pages and rarely update (with the forums being the main focus of the site), consider just doing it all in straight HTML. No point putting the overload of a CMS in if there isn't much need for it. And you can't get much faster then delivering a straight text document!

For the forum integration, you can include a small PHP script to do what ever you need. For a shoutbox, there are lots of good Javascript/PHP ones out there that are separate from a full blown CMS. You could even sync a couple of them to the forum software for user authentication.

06-13-2008, 10:17 AM	#6
llama64 First Line Centre Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: /dev/null Exp:	Drupal is pretty good, but I found it to require a crap load of work to maintain. That was a couple versions ago though. How much dynamic content are you going to put on the front end site? If it's a moderate amount and there is really only one or two updater's, look into Wordpress. It's what powers the front of CP! If you're just going to throw up a few informational pages and rarely update (with the forums being the main focus of the site), consider just doing it all in straight HTML. No point putting the overload of a CMS in if there isn't much need for it. And you can't get much faster then delivering a straight text document! For the forum integration, you can include a small PHP script to do what ever you need. For a shoutbox, there are lots of good Javascript/PHP ones out there that are separate from a full blown CMS. You could even sync a couple of them to the forum software for user authentication. Last edited by llama64; 06-13-2008 at 10:19 AM.