Best website editing and forum software:

[jread]

Just wondering what you guys use/recommend as far as software for building/designing websites as well as a good forum/messageboard software to use.

I'm currently using Frontpage for site creation and phpbb for my forum software. I HATE Frontpage and while I think phpbb is great for free software, it's very limited as far as its functionality.

The two I was thinking of upgrading to are:

- Dreamweaver

- Vbulletin


What to you folks think of these programs?

 

[edmicman]

unless its worth the money to you, i'd stick with phpbb at least until you have enough users to justify the cost of vB. phhBB can be customized quite a bit, and I think they're working on a new version that should be out sometime this spring, too. For designing / building websites, Dreamweaver is awesome, but I'd stick with some canned templates you can find on the web and use a plain text editor. Just my $.02!

 

[jread]

Thanks for your input

 

[kamper]

I'll second edmicman's suggestions. And as for the bb upgrading, unless you are severely limited by phpbb I'd suggest maybe learning some php and fixing your issues the old-fashioned way (and then giving it back to the community of course ). It'd be a good way to do some learning and may give you some ideas for the rest of your site.