Storebuilder Blog - Site Building

Friday again already! The calendar is whizzing by these days.

In 2003/4 I used to have a pretty busy forum here on Storebuilder. In those days the site was built in PHP Nuke and whilst it did a job of sorts, it was so vulnerable security wise that eventually I closed the forum down as it became over run with spam.

Fast forward to 2009 and now we have a secure CMS in Joomla but no forum to run with it. If you want to run a forum alongside a joomla installation then you have the nightmare of dual login's and all that it entails.

There is an integrated forum that has started to be developed for Joomla but when I tried it on a poker site about six months ago it was still in it's infancy and had a lot of work still needed to get it up to scratch.

I've been meaning to get a forum up and running again for ages and so when I discovered that rockettheme had produced a bridge to PHPBB3 I was keen to give it a shot.

The result is pretty impressive stuff and I think the forum looks great. It looks way better than the standard PHPBB3 skin and moulds in beautifully with the site.

So now we have the best open source CMS system in Joomla combined with the best open source forum in PHPB33 and it's open for business.

Now that I've seen how well it works I'll be opening up a forum on sixhanded.com

The rockettheme subscription is cheap as chips for any affiliate marketer and with the added plus that they also do wordpress themes it's definitley worth subscribing. I highly recommend them.

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