Non-professional to use a forum for articles?

[SagaLore]

I setup antisource.com to be an archive of virus news and antivirus reviews... I know it will take me awhile to build up the content. I setup a blog-like script to handle the news, so I could enter in updates from any computer. My pages are dynamic so I needed header/footer/menu templates... was a little tricky to maintain custom meta tags... my method is just cumbersome right now. And the search function only works for the rodin news and not my articles.

So I wondering if I should just make the entire site a forum like Invision Board. I'm setting that up for my herbal forums site and it looks like it has some really robust features. I could use it for news, dedicate a category for read-only articles, dedicate another category for responses, etc. But I wonder how I could setup XML-RSS syndication for that?

So what do you think, good idea, bad idea? Will it look professional, or cheasy?

 

[SagaLore]

No comments on this?

 

[mugs]

I will comment that it is non-professional to use "non-professional" in this context. Personally, I think it would look more professional if you didn't use a message board for "articles."

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
I will comment that it is non-professional to use "non-professional" in this context. Personally, I think it would look more professional if you didn't use a message board for "articles."

Do you know of a script that will take a directory of static html pages and automatically index them, and render the content within a template complete with custom meta tag information?