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Vinspire:
I plan to have a forum frontpage ... which software do you guys suggestion ?
Joomla , mambo or just use the tinyportal ? ;) ;D :D
Kindred:
what do you plan to do with your "front page"?
If you don't need all the optional components and tack-ons that joomla and mambo have, then I suggest tiny portal. It uses the SMF interfacem displays news, and several "block" type content things...
Joomla/mambo is much more powerful... there are thousands of add-ons for both systems, but, unless you need all the extras, it's probably not worth the effort to set it up and keep it configured.
Vinspire:
--- Quote from: Kindred on September 19, 2006, 11:48:08 AM ---what do you plan to do with your "front page"?
If you don't need all the optional components and tack-ons that joomla and mambo have, then I suggest tiny portal. It uses the SMF interfacem displays news, and several "block" type content things...
Joomla/mambo is much more powerful... there are thousands of add-ons for both systems, but, unless you need all the extras, it's probably not worth the effort to set it up and keep it configured.
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Front page as in the main interface for my side ... Sorrry, I know I am bad in explaining this.
I got tinyportal installed on my site and when i browse through a site which used mambo and joomla ... it look super awesome.
Which one is more compatible with SMF ? ( joomla or mambo )
rockinaway:
What Kindred was saying is, what do you want to do with your frontpage? If you want it plain then go for TinyPortal, or add ons for TinyPortal are good, but there isn't as much. But if you want a very flexible and a software with alot of modules then use Joomla.
They are both compatible with SMF but TinyPortal was actually built for SMF, so you don't have to do any extra changes to the software to 'fuse' with your forum, whereas with Joomla you do, but you can get good support for that.
What exactly do you want to do with it?
Vinspire:
rockinaway, i am still undecided of what i would like to use in my frontpage but it seems like tinyportal don't really cater my need as it is kinda basic. this is why i thought of making a survery regarding joomla or mambo.
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