Making articles

[Senbecc]

I don't know if this is the right place, but the site I am building will require allot of articles and I'm pretty new here. I am wondering if someone could direct me to some information on the basics of writing, recording, and linking those articles so they don't dominate my home page? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[H]

SMF is really a forum system so for articles it may be better if you looked at using SMF with something like the Mambo bridge .

[Senbecc]

SMF is really a forum system so for articles it may be better if you looked at using SMF with something like the Mambo bridge .

Where would I go to look into something like that?

[H]

Mambo is available here: http://www.mamboserver.com/

The bridge for mambo+smf is on our download page: http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?bridges
I believe the docs are in the download file.

Hope this helps . If you run into any problems you can post them in the bridge support board: Mambo Bridge Support

[Senbecc]

Many thanks sir!

[H]

No problem

[K0H_K1u]

JOOMLA.

Joomla.org

[H]

JOOMLA.

Joomla.org

Joomla is not recommended as it can no longer be integrated with SMF

[K0H_K1u]

JOOMLA.

Joomla.org

Joomla is not recommended as it can no longer be integrated with SMF

edit: Let me rephrase that without insulting you.

Look... *anger* you... *calms down*

Kind sir... http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,132/Itemid,35/

That is a bridge... for the latest version. I am using it on my site - k0h.org and many others are to...

[H]

JOOMLA.

Joomla.org

Joomla is not recommended as it can no longer be integrated with SMF

edit: Let me rephrase that without insulting you.

Look... *anger* you... *calms down*

Kind sir... http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,132/Itemid,35/

That is a bridge... for the latest version. I am using it on my site - k0h.org and many others are to...

That bridge has known problems which is one reason we don't recommend it.

Another is that it violates our license in the same way our bridge did!

[Oldiesmann]

You mean it violates their license in the same way as ours did...

Despite the fact that it's GPL, the bridge still causes SMF+Joomla to be considered a "combined work" and therefore is illegal since SMF isn't GPL.

[forumite]

Delayed response - just saw this topic....

Mambo and Joomla are a bit of an overkill for articles, although I've successfully used both for that purpose. They're quite powerful (and good) Content Management Systems (CMS).

A simpler option might be Wordpress, which I use for articles on one of my sites. Although WP was originally intended as blogging software, you can use it to create pages (rather than messages). There's also an example here of using WP as a (simple) CMS.