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We're looking to update MarvelMods.com with a new UI that would allow forum administrators to do front-page updates, and hopefully post files (external links, not on our site) along with the standard blogging news post. Can anyone recommend a favorite? I've looked some into WordPress and PHP-Fusion, but I'm a .Net guy and don't really know the open-source world like I should.

http://cmscritic.com/cms-list

Hows that?

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Btw, I can't really say a favourite due to my lack of liking CMS'
They all seem to go beserk whenever I install them, and I usually just like coding things myself.
So I use CuteNews for my websites. That's right, I install a new installation of cutenews of every page that I want to edit regularly. Annoying, sorta. Anyways, CuteNews has never failed me.

Yeah, I've looked through lists and lists, I just didn't know if somebody had a favorite is all. Thanks though.

If you ever talk to Lase or Shadow, they'd probably know of some good ones.
I usually go to Lase for advice on website stuff.. and everything else

Anything not Joomla (Very resource intensive and cluttered) or wordpress (High targets for hackers and spammers)

wordpress is hacker/spammy. I run 50 version on 50 sites and all of them are evil. I add about 1000 ips a week from china and japan alone that hit wp sites. just a fyi

I'll pass that along, the owner was actually looking into WordPress, I'll let him know that one's out.

If you add Askimet though in wordpress, spam is greatly decreased. You may want to go with a customized version of Drupal. Lot's of good support for module building and integration with various forum systems. They had some pretty nice support for themes and such from my remembrance. I wouldn't instantly turn down Wordpress if you know what plugins to install, you can get a very nice system going. They have some great caching plugins, themes, etc... I've never really tinkered with it, but you might want to look into xoops?

As a personal recommendation though to what you're looking for, Wordpress would have to be the best blogging system out in the market. Tons of plugins for what you're looking for. If you run Askimet, you won't have a problem with spam from my experiences and the experiences of some contacts I have in the social media marketing industry. Get wp-cache I believe it's called and it'll greatly speed up the speed of your site. There's tons of advertising plugins as well so if MarvelMods is a monetization based site, you shouldn't have a problem

If anything else comes to mind as the day and weekend goes along, I'll give a shout.

i guess one persons garbage is another mans gold , for production sites that supply goods to sites like walmart even with 35 addons to prevent faux logins, accounts, foreign spam, they had to sift thru piles of comment and fodder posts, even paying alot of money so eventually I made a python and php cms with 1 theme.something "hit the ground running and see what happens" wp is great! a real site that needs to look, be , always professional and not at the hand of script kiddies. if its serious stuff, a python cms could be made easily for winblows servers or in unix a simply php cms, you can even get the starter code bits from hotscripts.com for both.

T its possible wp is just right for your project -im coming from a "totally" different aspect.

You guys and your open-source world. There's a part of me that wishes I had gotten into PHP/MySQL first, but .Net is the cash cow here in Indy, and I do love me some cow cash.

Okay, so sorry to double-post, but does anyone know of a good "Files Section" module for Drupal? (that's what we went with) We want to be able to allow users to post files/info on files, but host the links externally. -- something akin to the ooooold Gametoast Files section or a watered-down version of SWBFfiles.

http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery

Does that look right?
It might only be for images, but I wasn't sure.

Meh, I just add new pages then I tag them with a specific tag. For example: X-Men Legends II mods are tagged in the post with 'xml2_mods'. Then I have a static link that queries all posts containing 'xml2_mods' tags and I can pull up all files. Works well enough. I'll probably add a ratings module I found so folks can rate the mods (out of 5 stars)