Some Questions About Getting vBulletin Forum.
 

Hello EveryOne,

I am a new forum member here. My name is Keith.

I am thinking of starting a forum and I heard of vBulletin from my internet friends.

I believe vBulletin is the right forum solution for me but I am not sure if it supports the following features. For information, I used Invision Power Board previously so I have a bit of forum background.

I did raise a pre-sales support ticket on this and I was told to ask here because it concerns code modification.

I really need to know the following before I decide to invest into getting a forum license. I strongly believe that if a person is serious into forum business, it has to be constantly improved with better and newer features. That's why I do not believe in free forum software that basically do not provide support and can't do much.

My Questions

1) I currently have a blog known as http://aboutsingaporecasino.com created using wordpress. I do not have the intention to change my blog address at the moment.

I am thinking of creating a new forum called http://forum.aboutsingaporecasino.com with vBulletin that can integrate with my existing blog. For integration, I would hope,

- my new forum will showcase the latest posts of my existing blog on its main page. Can it be done?

2) I have my own flickr album and I would love to share the photos with my fellow forum members.

Can my new forum display all the recent photos added to my flickr album? This is very important for me because a website without pictures is very dull.

3) I currently have a Facebook Fan page account, can I integrate them into the new Forum as well?

I am wondering if my forum members can actually share the forum content with their Facebook friends easily, it would great for me. Does vBulletin has an API built-in for this?

The viral power of Facebook is great! I not wanna miss on this.

Cheers,
Keith Ong
http://aboutsingaporecasino.com