Here it is, the concept for what will be the new home page for Scream And Fly.  Since its beginning, Scream And Fly has been divided into two primary components - the home page, and the forums.  Our message forums contain a Content Management System (CMS) on their own, which really helps us deliver news and added flexibility with such a large forum.  This CMS is VBPortal, which has been a key element to our forums since about 2002, and it has evolved with VBulletin to provide us a rock-solid community base for our readers to exchange information.  We’ll continue to use this fantastic synergy of software for our forums, however our home page is still a static HTML site that needs upgrading.

:: Concept of what the new Scream And Fly home page will look like ::

While HTML sites are fantastic for search engines, they are more cumbersome to update, so we’re moving to a database-driven CMS for our new home page.  Our CMS will be completely customized for our use, and it will permit faster and more streamlined workflow for adding articles, which means on-site updates during events.  With this new home page, we’ll be gearing up on many new feature articles and videos, all in an effort to kick the new site into high gear.

The new home page should go live sometime in the next few months.  Once installed, we’ll begin the task of testing it, and migrating old articles into it.  I’m very excited about this, since it will finally complete the Scream And Fly site as I envisioned it years ago, with both the forums and home page running on their own databases, easily updated and managed.

Related Links:

• Scream And Fly Magazine