The ultimate loser newbie question... sorry. I click on the 2.0.5.2 link on the home page, it takes me to a 'download' page which has a million patches for getting from x->y (surely I'm not expected to apply dozens of patches to get to 2.0.5.2?) and the actual .tar.gz for 2.0.6rc1.

Thanks for the pointers. I am amazed at the variety of modules out there! I was just looking at your site, very professional and elegant... like the art too. How do you get that nice horizontal menu up by the banner? Do you have to do that by hand?

Thanks for the xcgallery tip, I checked it out and have already switched over to it! Not sure about admin integration yet but the blocks are way superior.

I will look into wfsections.

Hi -- I'm really impressed by the quality of XOOPS and its modules. My main concern is that while XOOPS does a GREAT job of providing 'edge of page' content, the available blocks are (mostly) only suitable to 'edge of page'. I want to build a top page with goodies from news, agenda-x, gallery, pools, etc. It comes out looking pretty awful (www.redkiln.com), some of which is my fault for not building a decent theme, but for instance I want the 'recent pictures' block to have pictures, not just text. Is this the sort of thing that mostly doesn't exist yet due to priorities of development effort, or am I missing something fundamental? I'm willing (planning) to write some blocks, if necessary, as time permits.

After test-installing a bunch of nukes and trying out tikiwiki (which I loved but was buggy buggy buggy), I have to say this is by FAR the cleanest most well-organized install I've experienced. Nice work!!! I think we're going to stick with xoops, it's looking really solid.

I can't believe I typed that twice: yes, 'evolved' :)

Hi -- I have been looking for tools to manage the web site for a pottery studio. I'm a geek by day, potter by night.

I started out looking at the nukes, have tried postnuke and php-nuke so far. Haven't tried XOOPS yet, just looking at the site now. Would it be accurate to say that XOOPS is pretty much an evolved nuke? Cleaner but with the same basic intention: wrap a blank space with some useful goodies. In some cases maybe wrap a tool to fit in the blank space: calendar for instance, and of course news. Pretty much the only evolved tools in the nukes are those for handling news. Great if news is what you need to do!

What I am really missing is the ability to do something more structured in those blank sapces, even if it's just build xslt stylesheets for the content that goes in there. I love the tools in the frame, they're handy and configurable. But the blank spaces remain the same old html maintenance nightmare.

All insight appreciated!

Gary