a slick portal system?

emergent

Ok ... I'm looking for a portal system that's almost as cool as Vanilla. Does anyone know of any cool software ideas? For an upcoming project, my client basically wants to replicate a myspace.com.

enderateros

myspace's system was custom made man...

lech

customly horrid! that's just my observation tho.

Bergamot

Make it like facebook.

fernando

How did myspace get so popular? It's dreadful code, and ugly, ugly, ugly...

so easy to totally bork, and full of lousy ads...

Is that what people like?

Bergamot

Any community portal depends far more on the community than the portal itself. If all your friends are on myspace, you go on myspace.

emergent

Here's what I've found so far - http://www.phpfox.com/. It does a lot, but isn't as elegant as I'd like it. Here's a site that basically does what is needed - http://www.purevolume.com/. Does anyone have any recommendations of systems?

lech

I think what you might want is drupal if you plan on forming some kind of community which allows your user their own blog and other community-type stuff.

tcline

drupal is great.

c-unit

Purevolume isn't really a portal, but a full blown CMS. On a sidenote, MySpace looks like crap and never works right for me.

Krak

MySpace is 100% pure shit code, and running on a Windows server to boot.

falieson

myspace looks like crap, facebook is coded a lot better and cleaner. But the beauty of myspace is that it is pretty free form - I have seen some pretty awesome things made on it out of css/flash.

Ben

I have seen some cool MySpace sites, but only when they've hidden all the MySpace code and added their own, not by styling what's already there.