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A short review on vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/
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A year ago I founded JDM Style Tuning, a community for Japanese car lovers. A forum was always going to be the heart of this community and since I'm a graphic designer I was looking for forum software which actually looked nice (interface) as well as being user friendly.

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From a Web Developer's perspective: There are scores of high quality Content Management Systems available that are well suited to almost any task you can throw at them these days but many of them are over simplified and don't use development your skills to their potential. Many CMS packages come with graphical installers and a ton of features that are all administered through an admin interface that's relatively easy to use for almost anyone.

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Hi I work as a web designer / developer and for the past month I've been implementing Zen Cart. During this time I spent about two weeks messing around looking into how Zen Cart works, investigating the template system; all mostly by looking at the code. With the last two weeks designing this site www.stayoung.com.au/index.php (still in it's testing phase)<

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Filezilla is the free FTP client for Windows that Supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). It was voted Project of the Month on SourceForge.net and has become an popular newtworking tool for many Windows users.

I find it to be simple to use and reasonably reliable. It support multiple connections and queue managment so you can recover if you FTP server times out during upload of large files.

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Eventum is the open source Project Managment/Issue tacking System used by the MySQL team and from what I hear it's been a great success. Eventum is free under the terms of the GPL License (Which means General Public License License)

The install is a piece of cake. Just create a directory on your Windows or LAMP server and upload it. Then run the install script. You need a MySQL database.

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For those of you looking for an easy Content Management System that doesn't take a certificate level 4 at nerd-tech to deploy then you should consider Website Baker. It's open source and free!

From the site: Website Baker is a PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) designed with one goal in mind: to enable it's users to produce website with ease.

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