Hey guys!! I just got a request from my college Robotics Club to make a site for them.. I accepted, but I'm in a fix!! Which CMS to use?? It'll have the following features, A forum A Blog A main Page 5 Pages Please help Shreyas
There is a whole list of good candidates for your needs. Sub Dreamer is one option. It's weakness is the blog tool which they call "articles". Otherwise it has some nice features, plug-ins and support is reasonable. http://www.subdreamer.com/ This site uses subdreamer: http://www.commercial-fishing.org/
I have vbulletin bridged with wordpress, and I have all those features your mentioning. Works way more better than any complete CMS I've tried.
You can do almost all that you want with Wordpress. And the blog, and the homepage, and the other pages. For forum best is vBulletin but if you're limited with money you can install PHPbb.
I'd vote for Drupal - the forum feature is kind of primitive, but overall it is very well supported, and help is easy to find.
I would recommend joomla or mambo where you can integrate the system with smf ( the bridge is there ). http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?bridges