SG Main Site Question

Road Runner · Post by **Road Runner** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:54 pm

....Hey -- The SG Main Page at http://speedguide.net -- Is this all based off vBadvanced?

Post by **Philip** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:09 pm

No, it is custom-built PHP backend and database separate from vB... It only verifies users from the vB database.

Road Runner · Post by **Road Runner** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:31 pm

Philip wrote:No, it is custom-built PHP backend and database separate from vB... It only verifies users from the vB database.

Thanks -- What tools did you use to setup the site? And What tools do you use now? I'm thinking about setting up with php rather than HTML coding.

Also, How long did the main site take to setup?

Post by **Philip** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:07 am

Using HtmlArea for a text editor, and some tools like PhpMyAdmin for DB editing, Visual SlickEdit for coding... Other than that, the entire backend has been coded from scratch, templates for pages, functions, etc. We used a PHP/SQL programmer and a designer, and I did part of the coding as well. It was a long-term project... It took almost a year because it was done from scratch and we weren't on it full-time. The SG backend is an unique CMS tuned to our needs, not based on any of the ready products out there. It totaly separates the content from the way it looks using PHP, templates and some CSS, javascript.

The site is managed through a browser interface, we can write reviews/news/articles/polls, etc. and upload images directly from within the admin interface...