The website of an yearly gaming convention I help organise, which currently runs on Xoops, is probably going to be modified by me, so and I'm looking for a suitable system to manage its content. Here are some features I'm looking for:

 

• It must have a very simple (the people who are going to make the content don't know and don't want to know what HTML is) but reasonably resouceful text editing interface for posts and general writing;
  
• It is not a blog and shouldn't look like a blog;
  
• The main propose of the site is to inform users about the convention and instigate them to attend. I'm not looking for a portal;
  
• That said, it would be interesting to have support to a forum software like phpBB;
  

 

Additionally, the easier it is to make some tweaks, the better. I'll probably want to make a theme of my own. I'm also going to need support for a system that people are going to use to register their games. Besides being able to store the information they send, that system should also display that information on the website for other users to see (in case they want to join the games).

 

My first idea was Wordpress, but I'd like to hear other opinions.

Hi,

 

DotNetNuke and its 3rd party developers are a great option. For example, www.smart-thinker.com (3rd party developer) is the owner of www.pokerdiy.com

 

The functionality used here is all DNN.

 

Is this the type of thing you're looking for?

 

Anna

Depends how much content needs to be editable and how easy it needs to be.

 

You could use something very basic like Cushy CMS or spend the time to make Wordpress act as a CMS.

 

I'd probably go for Wordpress myself.