We're looking for a possible software package that contains framework for a forum, blog and community all in one. That is if there is such a creature. This would be for an e-commerce company.
We currently have a forum that still runs on software that is at least a decade old. There has been talk of adding a blog, but I made the powers that be hold on until we focused on the having a theme and a real reason to write. As for the community we have a bit of a niche market and it would be nice to let our users create their own spaces featuring their projects to share with everybody.
If anybody has any suggestions or recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
gsimerlink
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gsimerlink
, Feb 19 2008 02:22 PM
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Posted 19 February 2008 - 02:22 PM
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Posted 19 February 2008 - 03:41 PM
That seems like a slam dunk for vBulletin.
Their forum software is arguably the best you can get and their new beta version has all kinds of great social networking kinds of things (individual blogs, photo galleries, etc).
Wrapping it into a blog is pretty easy. You can do like I did on and old site of mine and have a single forum power the blog entries on the front page (notice their "Music News" on the front). You configure a forum so that only admins can create new threads, but anyone can reply, and have those new threads show up on the front. If you don't want to do that, there are plenty of plug-ins and other options to get it done.
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Their forum software is arguably the best you can get and their new beta version has all kinds of great social networking kinds of things (individual blogs, photo galleries, etc).
Wrapping it into a blog is pretty easy. You can do like I did on and old site of mine and have a single forum power the blog entries on the front page (notice their "Music News" on the front). You configure a forum so that only admins can create new threads, but anyone can reply, and have those new threads show up on the front. If you don't want to do that, there are plenty of plug-ins and other options to get it done.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 03:35 AM
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We're looking for a possible software package that contains framework for a forum, blog and community all in one. That is if there is such a creature. This would be for an e-commerce company.
Invision has all that, they're separate modules that you purchase.
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Posted 20 February 2008 - 12:23 PM
Thanks for the help. I gave them a quick look and it looks like I'll be able to find something that will work.
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Posted 21 February 2008 - 09:05 AM
Drupal is very modular and can do what you need, but it's a little non-intuitive to learn at first. Very powerful, though.
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Posted 24 February 2008 - 08:31 AM
you can also see communityserver if you are looking something in asp.net
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Posted 29 February 2008 - 08:45 AM
QUOTE(Scottie @ Feb 21 2008, 08:05 AM) 
Drupal is very modular and can do what you need, but it's a little non-intuitive to learn at first. Very powerful, though.
I'll put in a second recommendation for Drupal.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 04:27 PM
Drupal is great, though it will take some time to become familiar with. The main benefit of Drupal is the strong support community, if you ever want to do something custom it has probably already been done by someone else.
SilverStripe is new and promising. It doesn't have the same strong support community yet, but its growing. The software is quite easy to use, and it has forum and ecomm plugins.
HTH,
Chris
SilverStripe is new and promising. It doesn't have the same strong support community yet, but its growing. The software is quite easy to use, and it has forum and ecomm plugins.
HTH,
Chris
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Posted 19 November 2008 - 03:07 AM
Joomla is another open source software that has modules for things like ecommerce, forums and content management.
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