I'm going to be getting started on setting up
www.nuiaddon.com as soon as I get the first 5.0 out to registered nUI users.
Marthisdil did a great job setting up Joomla as a prototype for the board and then that kinda came to a grinding halt, mostly due to me dragging my feet because I was so busy at the time.
That said though, I'm not sure that's the path I want to take with the site. I think I would like to manage pretty much all of it manually with the exception of the forums and photo album.
With that in mind, I'd like to hear suggestions for the best options for a full featured forum manager much like WoWI's forums that supports attachements to messages, etc, and one that you have really good control over the visual look and feel of. Features most important to me would be to have multiple topics, the ability to create sticky threads at the top of the topic and to lock threads. I would also like to be able to maintain public topics anyone can comment on as well as private topics for developers, admin, and nUI supports (member's only topic areas)
I'd also like to have a photo album of sorts where people can post screen-caps of their nUI layouts... which leads to a bigger problem and that is an automated way to support people posting plugins for nUI and customized layouts for nUI. I do want to continue to use sites like WoWI and Curse, but I would really like
www.nuiaddon.com to be a single source one stop shop for nUI support, updates, layouts, plugins, etc.
I'm okay with using a suite that manages the entire site as long as I have full control over the look and feel, but I confess to being old school... I have been writing HTML by hand since the internet has been around and never used tools like Joomla... so I guess I need to get with the program ~lol~
Anyway... I would really appreciate some feedback on what options there are and the pros and cons of each.