I am setting up a website for a freind of mine for a horticultural soc. I need a news page, an images page and a forum. I like the setup of the XOOPS.org site, and was hoping to do something similer. I have been looking at news modules, but none really do what I need, what I want is a news module that shows the last ten news items on the main page, a decent forum that also displays the latest items on the main page, and an upcomming events module. If anyone can help me in getting this setup, I would really apperecite it.

You can do it with these modules:
News 1.44
CBB 3.07
extCal
xm-Spotlight

Ok, I have most of them, but I can't find XM Spotlight. Is there some way I can customise the front page compleatly? Also how do I start to go about modding the site outline and templates?

This is a link to the latest version as far as I know. It is Beta with a date of 27 Oct 06.
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1315

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