Wirksworth is a small market town in Derbyshire with a successful community website project based on an open source content management system, Typo3. We have had problems with our version of Typo3, and we are looking to do a revamp. We need a reliable and simple system with a good message board. Alastair Clark
There are half a dozen content management systems that, like Typo3, use the MySQL database. PHP-Nuke (phpnuke.org) is the obvious one to look at, because it was designed for community-based portals, and seems to have good community support. An alternative is MKPortal (mkportal.it). You would then add a message board such as phpBB or MyBB, so check how easy it is to do this. But I've never used any of these. If you have, please let us know which you think is best.
Backchat: Graham Mitchell from MC3 suggests Drupal or Joomla! "Both are award winners in the open source CMS field. Personally, I favour the power and flexibility of Drupal." On the Ask Jack blog, two out of three people suggested Joomla! while the other preferred Drupal.
