PHPNuke for business

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

One issue with using PHPnuke for businesss sites is that most of the available themes are for gaming or personal site.

Here are some other issues:
*Themes are too generic- blocks on both sides of the page dont look professional.
* nice images on them that aren't transferable to everyone's business or text must be changed (with no source image files included).
*large images that take up a lot of space.

Can anyone recommend some good corporate themes?

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

Here's some samples of what we are referring to:
* http://www.themechooser.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=1&cat=0&pos=0
The top part of that site stays on every single page. For people with smaller screens that covers most of it up. But it is very nice looking.

(we dont point them out because we dont like it, we point it out because it has potential but isn't perfect)

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Telford UK

If you find a site that does nice business themes then let me know!

Thanks
Tony

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

Hi Tony,

Someone referred us to Autothemes: http://www.autothemes.com/

They offer many themes (including some for free) that are PHPNuke, Postnuke and envolution compatible.

Their themes look clean, crisp and well designed, but some also fall into the "large header" trap and most still look like standard nuke sites.

We haven't used them yet so we cant vouch for them.

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Telford UK

I bought Autotheme a few months ago - but I found it was just too complicated to try and learn.

The problem is that once you get an established site and you start servicing clients then you have less time for development, so there has to be a crossover period where you start to make enough money to pay a developer to do the grunt work for you.

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

At some point, if you are hiring a developer to do the work, he can just make you a completely customized theme. Smile

The most important asset any business has is time.

Ultimately it's better to stick with what you have and be on the lookout for something that fits better rather than play around with it.

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Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

I dont see any business theme's there.

Posted: Jun Thu 16, 2005 5:59 pm

To the contrary, my friends. Working business sites using PHP-Nuke 7.7.3.0c.

http://loftplace.net
http://nikisopa.com

I find that staying on message with a production site, is your most valuable strategy. Not getting bogged down in code distration, if you know what I mean.

Posted: Jun Thu 16, 2005 7:34 pm

Another example of creative admin and management. http://loftplace.net This client requested what he refered to as a "Leasing Center", to represent his many properties peppered about greater metropolitan Detroit. Progressing the interview forward, I got it! He wanted the perception of a service offering various properties for lease (a concept not un-tried), only it would actually be all his properties.

Our filter for doing business is, Affordable, Professional Website Mangement and Administration. Having the lastest version of NukeC already in our stable of tools, made the right choice as our foundation for his "Leasing Center". We merely re-worked the language files, a few cosmetic changes and all on the project agreed that it was clean.

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

Those are nice sites. But what i was referring to is the non-block format for sites. You can easily tell it is a nuke site.

Also for "leasing centers" you may want to use the associates module and showcase module- i believe they are both by ibdeeming.com

Posted: Jun Thu 16, 2005 10:58 pm

Yes, but step out of yourself for a moment. We see it all the time, sometimes breeding contempt. Listen, the truth is, most folks do not yet have a clue what PHP-Nuke is. What I am saying is, go Mambo! No, just kidding! Seriously, there is a whole lot of money out there to be made deploying, configuring and administering websites. My thinking is, move ahead with what works, using other peoples money to advance the technology and have lots of fun doing it.

Anyway, do not forget to login at my site and add, both your sites if you wish, to my Supporters.

-forgotz

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

I have logged in and added my site as a supporter.

I'm not saying there's something wrong with phpnuke sites- all i'm saying is the look doesn't fit for all occasions.

For example look at http://www.ibm.com/us/ (i randomly chose them because they're a big business). there are no left or right blocks on the first page. then when you go into sections there are left and or right blocks as appropriate- and they are catered to the specific section.

Posted: Jun Thu 16, 2005 11:49 pm

Over at http://www.nukescripts.net/, I believe Bob is working on that with his releases. Oh, need your button or the url link, didn't work for some reason.

-forgotz

Newbie Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 199

I saw that bob is working on some cool news stuff...

I actually dont have a button or logo for this site! I just never got around to making one- too busy creating new mods Smile

You can just use the metcomp logo:
http://www.metopen.com/images/hh/metcompsm.gif