New Site, Which one: Wordpress/buddypress, joomla, etc???

[blackout]

http://www.sexycdn.com/wfw/ is the layout for a site I'm working on. It's not adult oriented. It's more humour etc.

The idea is to post interesting/funny/hot/cool images, videos, and news reports and websites and then have 3 buttons rating each post as Win Fail or WTF, and tie it in the with the social world. What do you think would be the best way to make that template I made functional?

I've looked around at buddypress, joomla, etc. I want people to be able to sign up in order to leave comments, rate (using the 3 aforementioned buttons), and like/share via social networks.

Just wondering what you outstanding designers/developers would suggest for me to use, or if I should attempt at creating a custom panel or having it done by a pro.

Thanks in advance for your always creative, GFY-Style responses,
-Mark

[robber]

Something I would suggest from an SEO point of view is to have your home page have the same link across your site otherwise your rankings could reduce as it's looking at different to an search engine.

Your option for rankings against the postings might be an idea where you would be better with a custom panel as you can progress the results, it sounds like your wanting a hot or not script.

Or you could use wordpress and have someone write a custom mod or see if there is one out there with the features you want, as I'm sure there might be something that could be customised from the developers markets.

[mrmikeman]

Use wordpress, and if you got the money just have plugins designed for you when there are functions you cannot already find with a pre made plugin...

also, robber, what are you talking about the same link across the website?

[blackout]

Yeah, I ended up paying someone to integrate to wordpress and getting the functionality, just to get it up.

Meanwhile, I'm making the leap and trying to code the "perfect" CMS for the site. I know exactly what I want, so once I get this framework figured out hopefully I'll be able to come off of the wordpress to that CMS.

Of course, I'd have to export the databases, and ensure old URLs still work though. But that shouldn't be too hard once the rest of the CMS is done. Just follow the same naming scheme wordpress was using.

[robber]

Originally Posted by mrmikeman

also, robber, what are you talking about the same link across the website?

Oh sorry for not explaining what I meant fully, I was meaning in the sense that if you had a homepage you need to decide what you want to call it:

http://mysite.com/
http://mysite.com/page.htm
http://www.mysite.com/
http://www.mysite.com/page.htm

A search engine spider would see that as being 4 different pages, so you would be best to decide what you wanted to call your homepage and stick to it, this is crucial in your internal links as it would mean your pagerank (in a google sense) would not be split up across multiple copies of the same page

Rob

[dc0ded]

I would suggest wordpress to start with . Its easy and its clean. good luck..

[stach14]

Looks like you made the right choice using wordpress. You can go many different ways with that and just get stuff designed if you can't find it. Best of Luck