Posts: 7192 Location: Borgo San Michele
Tue 22 Jun, 2010 19:47
I was conviced that phpBB is the right thing to use for my web, but I failed again so I'm deleting it for permanent, i guess.
I'm sorry to read that. :sad:
Anyway I can really understand your point, and this is the reason why I created Icy Phoenix.
I love phpBB, because it is very well coded, and also their minimalist approach allowed many talented coders to develop cool mods which seamlessly integrates into phpBB. But... many basic users feel really unconfortable with phpBB, because if you (the user) are lacking of PHP or HTML knowledge, could be really really tough to customize the website by just using phpBB.
This is also the reason why some blogging platforms like WordPress took place in the web...
Anyway, back to the point... if you don't specifically need a discussion forum, I would suggest you to use WordPress to build your website, because it is the best PHP application I know under a "user friendly" point of view.
If you need a forum, you may have a try using Icy Phoenix, which maybe has many things you may not need... but the other side of the coin is that you will just need to choose a template you like and then most of the settings can be set by "user friendly" (friendly when you know where settings are!) forms.
If you need an online demo of Icy Phoenix, you can have a try here, so you don't have to waste time and resources installing it on your space:
Icy Phoenix Demo @ Open Source CMS