By milesb on

I own http://www.animeomnitude.com

I want to make my site active and lively again. However to make this as easy and possible I think that I will need to use a CMS rather than editing everything manually like I have been doing for the past 5 years.

Please take a look at my current site and look at the pages and forum

What would you recommend Drupal?

Primarily I want something that won't be visually to different to what I have now in terms of content creation.

Another question is how can I redirect my current content to their new locations on the new cms sitwe without losing my search ranks etc.

I appreciate all comments!

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mradcliffe
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I'm not sure if there are any themes that style like your default Invision skin, but to get forums that function somewhat like that system you will need to use Advanced Forum. Pair that with a WYSIWYG module, and you should have easy content creation. Front-page wise, it should be easy to replicate your look in CSS.

Migration. I searched drupal.org for "Invision Import" and found several previously made forum topics. You may want to take a look at

http://drupal.org/node/43979

and the book page, Migrating from Invision Power Board.

I do not know how current this. You can also import with the newer Migrate module.

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milesb commented

been messing around and this kinda looks like how my main site is set up
http://animeomnitude.com/dru/
what do you think

seems like tough work though :(

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Just to throw some ideas your way. If you're thinking about making reviews, you could add in functionality like vote up/down or some sort of votingapi module or maybe a digg-like module with flag.

The potential with Drupal is that it's fairly flexible enough with a variety of modules to create unique social and powerful sites.

Another powerful module is views, which will let you create dynamic lists (queries) with a faceted search-like feature allowing users to browse content based on fields.

I'd basically set something like that up with my review content having a taxonomy (category, tags) for genre and possibly series name. You could add additional fields to your content with CCK to create meta fields for collecting information on episode number or something else. You could add url, file, or image fields. You can use fckeditor or tinymce paired with the IMCE module to make it easier to attach images directly into the body of a post.

This is the potential. It can be hard work if you're not familiar with Drupal, and anyone will tell you that the learning curve is steep. This is something that we've taken for granted albeit with a strong group of people always trying to work on it. Start by organizing what you want "content" to be and how you want your users to be able to sort and find that content (i.e. forum post, review, review listing).