he niwa homepage doesn't use a CMS. It is a hand coded, custom website. It's slightly technical since it isn't one file per page you see, but it isn't a full blown CMS either. Also, There is a (eventual) plan to change the NIWA website forums to another software, but we are still waiting for that.
To which software? I hope no vBulletin
Pretty sure that's the current plan - last I heard, anyway.
Yes, I also think that MyBB is the best free forum. But I recommend not to use a vBulletin. vBulletin 3 was pretty good but then the company Internet Brands took Jelsoft, the delveloper of vBulletin, over - and the following versions 4 and especially the current version 5 are not more than bugs
There are lots of big communities who merged ther vBulletin-based forums to Xenforo, Burning Board or other software. You should look for other forum software like Burning Board 4, Xenforo or maybe IP-Board
Or continue using SMF - but please remove the stupid captcha which I must solve if I want to reply to my topic
In my Forum, mario-forum.net, I don't use any captcha or antispam question - and it's completely free of spam postings and spam accounts since I created it, because I use a honeypot and Stopforumspam
Viel Glück mit der deutschen NIWA! Ich wünsche Ihnen viel Erfolg bei ihm.
Thank you very much
I will inform you, when our homepage is finished
Because I'm not so fit in Javascript and php, I think a CMS will be better, but I don'T wnat to use wordpress, I'm preferring Contao
Maybe a Burning board/WoltLab Community Framework is enough for the whole webpage, I must check it
Is there a thread where users can tell what happened to them at wixia?