Originally Posted by Konda

CARMA is horrible, nothing in it makes any sense and everything is very time consuming. It's very clear that nothing has been really thought trough when writing that software.

Elevated-X is a lot better, but it's very hard to customize things. Skinning is quite easy, but if you want a lot of custom stuff it's a bitch to work with the templates.

If you have the money and just need specific features the best is to go custom. There is so much stuff in these things that most people won't need which makes things overly complicated.

All that most members areas need these days is a tube-style layout with a JW player.