Recommend a CMS/blog/etc package to me...

In My Humble Opinion
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A couple of years ago, not quite satisfied with the current state of the various *nuke-type CMS packages, I sat down and decided to write my own custom, lightweight CMS system that would integrate with my nicely-active phpBB.

Turns out I don’t quite have the time.

I’d still like to get the blog-cum-ezine end of the site going, though.

Here’s what I’m looking for in a CMS:

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[li]Must coexist happily with phpBB, and be able to start with an existing phpBB userbase. I’ve got about 1600 members and 200MB of posts going back four years, so there’s some emotional attachment there. That’s the main reason why I was put off by the idea of a package a couple of years ago, because most of them seemed to require a fresh install or significant database juggling.[/li][li]Lightweight. I’ve run across too many sites that are 60K+ per page, just for the HTML.[/li][li]Blog module, possible with the option of letting specified columnists run their own. I haven’t looked in to this one a whole lot, so I’m not really sure what’s out there.[/li][li]Text-only mode. Though this isn’t a biggie; I can always go and start stripping formatting stuff for a separate install, but its tedious.[/li][li]As little legacy formatting code as possible. Since I’m going to have a text-only version, anyway, I want as much of the layout to be done in CSS, and as little to be done with tables, as possible. I like to radically alter the layout, not just the “skins,” so this is a big one for me. If anybody’s still using Netscape 4.7, I’ll redirect them to the text-only page.[/li][li]As little DHTML as possible. While it can be nice and all, I’m a big fan of a nice, clean, straightforward layout, and I usually find most implementations more annoying than helpful.[/li][/ul]

I’ll admit that I don’t have a whole helluva lot of time to do the research or grab packages myself. I’d just appreciate anybody’s experiences with the various systems in light of the features I’m looking for.

Beleive me, if I had more than a couple of hours a week to dedicate to this, I’d still be coding my own.

Thanks.

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I don’t know if I could be of much help but are phpBB and InvisionBoard the same type of software?

I know a guy who actually installed a blog feature/module into a forum I visit, but he’s only allowed a few people to enable it I guess because it’s still in the beta stages. I’m not sure if he’s still working on it.

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Sorry, I was missing information in my previous post.

The “mod” that the guy made is for InvisionBoard. I asked if IB and phpBB were the same software because they look identical to me, in their default skins. If IB mods are compatible with phpBB, let me know and I’ll look for more info on the mod.

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They’re apparently conceptually compatible, but in reality they’re two separate code bases, so his specific mod probably wouldn’t work.

Still, I hadn’t thought about looking around for mods for phpBB, instead of phpBB-type mods for a CMS, so thanks for the suggestion.