CMS System

[NEF]

I currently run InvisionPowerBoard as my forum, whats the best CMS for intergrating with my current system, is joomla that standard what most people use, is it easy to change the templates with this, also whats it like for SEO... ?

Thanks

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

Depends on what you want to do!

Joomla is a good allrounder, with lots of features, extensions and templates.

You could look at drupal, postnuke... there are hudreds!

 

[bcmedia]

Joomla can be buggy. However once you iron out those bugs it runs like a charm. The secret is once you iron out a bug, to document it, so if you make another site you can fix the bug immediately!
The templates are a doddle to swap over and the SEO stuff works really well (once again a few bugs, but once ironed out it works). If you were to use Joomla then I would suggest just integrating your forum into Joomla by using Fireboard (that way you can manage the entire site and forum from within Joomla).

 

[bcmedia]

BTW, I got bc-media.co.uk put through an SEO report and with only a few slight tweaks the site scored 60%, with nearly all the recommendations for improvement stemming from the sites content requiring keyword optimisation and meta tags inserted.
So from a coding point of view, I think Joomla has a good tool set to handle SEO. How well your SEO performs is really up to your own content & links.

 

[bcmedia]

And my fifteenth post so I can put URL's into my posts

 

[Dwebs-Ltd]

And my fifteenth post so I can put URL's into my posts

Next time update your first post with the extra info if there are no posts following it. Rather than increasing your post count by multiple posting.

 

[bcmedia]

Sorry, I didn't read the small print properly. The other posts were genuine after thoughts or additions to what I had said, as opposed to a desperate need to get 15 posts.

 

[Greg Findley]

I currently run InvisionPowerBoard as my forum, whats the best CMS for intergrating with my current system

Hi NEF,

It all depends on the integration you're after with IPB? What are you looking to do in terms of features? Run a custom home page that pulls latest forum posts and other information? Have a blog to run alongside the forums? There's a lot of options and a lot of content management systems - might help if you can narrow down your requirements a bit?

Greg

 

[NEF]

Well I've thought about this, I already have a blog built into the forum itself, I only really need an article system for adding to the main site, with random article snippets on the front page... Would wordpress do better than joomla, or is there a more simpler method?

Thanks for the replies..

 

[Toni Anicic]

I really don't like Joomla as it's really not so good in on-site SEO, it's a hell to design for it and it's really not logical to anyone who tried something better

Among free OS CMS's I'd recomend going with Wordpress or Drupal, while Wordpress being my prefered conetent menagment system

 

[bcmedia]

I really don't like Joomla as it's really not so good in on-site SEO, it's a hell to design for it and it's really not logical to anyone who tried something better

Among free OS CMS's I'd recomend going with Wordpress or Drupal, while Wordpress being my prefered conetent menagment system

Dupal is let down by the its lack of wide spread support for plugins and quality template designs.....from a coders point of view though its much better than due to its structure.

The SEO stuff for Joomla works brilliantly once you tweak it. Horses for courses though.

 

[Orange22]

Have you looked at using a system called Drupal, its open source, easy to use. But it may need some customisation.

 

[F1SEO]

We use MODx in our professional work, as a CMS. In my opinion it's 10x better than Joomla. It's fast, programmable, strong on SEO out of the box and has a terrific admin panel where pages are organised in a tree structure. So you can do all sorts of fancy things. Best of all, it's free open source.

Integration with forums, well what do you mean? do you want a generic login where they can login from the CMS and also access their IPB account?

 

[bcmedia]

Hey, That ModX looks pretty cool....has it any ecommerce features and support for videos and image gallerys? It looks like its worth a punt!

 

[F1SEO]

Hey, That ModX looks pretty cool....has it any ecommerce features and support for videos and image gallerys? It looks like its worth a punt!

Hi there,

It does have an image gallery system, called Maxi Gallery. It's pretty good, we use it on our main site to create our portfolio and you can find a good demo of it at -> http://www.netguru.fi/modx/maxigallery-slidebox.html .

There are video player plugins too, here's one I found http://modxcms.com/FlvPlayer-752.html .

Ecommerce is bit patchy owing to the newness of the system, there are some available like TreasureChest -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=20173

Hope this helps

 

[TIMI]

There are a couple of things that you may want to think about really as your forum is already running .
1. Would you like to run the CMS separately in a way that the already registered users of the forum are not posting into the CMS ?
2. Will you be looking to [bridge] both frameworks in a way that only one authentication is needed to post into both ?
Drupal is an excellent and very flexible solution and I will recommend it above any other . I'd give you a hand in the development if you like .

 

[NEF]

I can keep the forum and CMS seperate as I really only want an article based cms to add things to easily and also a couple of others will have the ability... I like the look of modx and also I'll look into wordpress..