vBulletin-based Church Site?

[wittega]

As we're working on a full rework of our church site, one of our developers has recommended some great ideas based on vBulletin. I know little enough that I said I didn't know what that was, then came home to find out I'd been using it here all along. Duhhhhh.

The tools look great, but I'm not sure the format would work for our audience. I see a lot of churches using vBulletin as an important part of the site (e.g. discussion boards, prayer requests) but not as the only foundation.

Am I just too stuck on the traditional page style?

Thanks!
Greg

[David Gillaspey]

Hi Greg,

(Have to be brief. I'll follow up later.)

I wouldn't recommend that an entire church website be based on vBulletin though you might consider it for a forum.

As you observed, I do use vBulletin for this online community, but I use maybe 10% of the program's features.

More later.

Sincerely,

David Gillaspey
President
Great Church Websites
(and forum host and administrator)

[mickmel]

Our entire site is powered by vBulletin, although you can barely tell. I have it as the backbone of the site, so on every page:

- It connects to the database for me.
- It tells me if the user is logged in.
- It tells me if they're an admin (based on their user id)

If they're an admin, extra links appear on the pages and the admin area is secured by checking their vB user information.

Granted, most of the site is just normal non-vB CMS stuff, but vB is back there at least a little bit...