We have a really good idea for a membership site, and I’ve spent a lot of time lately looking at the technical side. What CMS should I use, and what type of message board? Do they integrate well? How do I handle membership and payments?
Right now I’m leaning towards Wordpress as a CMS and phpBB as my message board–lot’s of good features in the new release. I’ve also considered Drupal and Joomla, but they seem to be a little overboard for what we want to do. Not only that, but I’m using Joomla already on a couple of other membership sites, and it isn’t entirely intuitive to the other publishers.
Regardless, most of the information out there on running membership sites is costly. I don’t really get this, because the tools are free for the most part. As a service, free to you, I’m going to document as much as I can here. I’m technically savvy enough to do most of what needs to be done and shouldn’t have to pay for much. Hopefully I can help some other people do the same.
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