Last time I built a forum was 10+ years ago so I've been out of that front for quite awhile but a friend wants help building a website for a business venture he is getting started on.
What I need is a free forum package with a front-end page (a portal page or w/e the term is now) that can show a variety of things (such as product info, common inquiries as well as a place to submit inquiries, etc). Ideally the forum (along with all the other pages) will load inside the portal so you never lose the primary look of the site. Eventually (but not initially) a shopping cart system will be added so it should be a forum package that can easily support a cart system.
I am aware of the names and basic features of the forum software out there but do not have any recent experience with any of them. The last one I used was SMF and it seemed quite easy to get similar to what I describe above (portal page, content loads in the middle while keeping the header and sidebars loaded so everything looked integrated), but there are many other forum packages out now that I have never heard of and have zero experience with.
That being said, based on my (somewhat) vague description of what's wanted, what forum packages would you guys recommend?
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Last time I built a forum was 10+ years ago so I've been out of that front for quite awhile but a friend wants help building a website for a business venture he is getting started on.
What I need is a free forum package with a front-end page (a portal page or w/e the term is now) that can show a variety of things (such as product info, common inquiries as well as a place to submit inquiries, etc). Ideally the forum (along with all the other pages) will load inside the portal so you never lose the primary look of the site. Eventually (but not initially) a shopping cart system will be added so it should be a forum package that can easily support a cart system.
I am aware of the names and basic features of the forum software out there but do not have any recent experience with any of them. The last one I used was SMF and it seemed quite easy to get similar to what I describe above (portal page, content loads in the middle while keeping the header and sidebars loaded so everything looked integrated), but there are many other forum packages out now that I have never heard of and have zero experience with.
That being said, based on my (somewhat) vague description of what's wanted, what forum packages would you guys recommend?
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