Since some of my fellow guildmembers want a portalbased website where they can see progress, news, recruitment etc I'm looking for a nice CMS that supports all this.
At this moment our site mainly consists of a forum (powered by phpbb) and is suffient enough for now. It was meant to be a placeholder but by now has a good amount of post's I'd like to keep, including guides of members, special strats, informations and even some newsposts.
Does any of you know a good CMS for Guildsites, preferably (but not neccesarily) in combination with Phpbb?
I tried a lot of 'em, but none fits my needs. Like I said, they want a portal with:
- News
- Recruitment
- Progress
- (if possible) quick shoutbox
If this all isn't enough, I'd like to be able to add custom pages like 'About the guild' or 'Guildrules'.
So.. Hope the post wasn't too confusing, and also hope the post was in the right forum since there is no 'sites' forum.
This is relevant as I had finished off my guilds website yesterday (link in my sig). Now I've studied webdesign, coding/dreamweaver and CMS -and work doing it currently sat infront of a WordPress site we are doing.. So anyway I have the know how and xp but for our guilds site i didn't want to piss around with seriousness and stress of WordPress or coding so I picked Weebly.
Pros:
-It's free
-Responsive
-Super easy drag and drop (handy for adding officers with no background as admins)
-Shows stats/visits (see if people are even using the site)
-Own forum part
-Can add your own google adds
Cons:
-Not a huge amount of templates (can customise the code and save your own though)
-Pay for premium features (i have ways around things like change favicon, remove weebly add without paying)
-Domain name will be guild.weebly.com unless you have one or again pay (i used the free .tk domain register to just direct to it you can choose to mask that and have the whole site in like an iframe but meh)
If you choose to use it and want help just message me. Try it out and have alook at my site though www.valorwow.tk