If you was a member of Ellisfamily.tk, Ultima Forums, Ultima Development Laboratories Community in it’s early days while it was still online, Wrights Productions, Mario Portal / Nintendo Portal after me and Adam brought the website – that you would have used MkPortal.
MkPortal was a portal / CMS system that used a
forum for it’s backend. This allowed it to be used with many forums such as SMF, phpBB, vB and IPB and while it did have quite a few limitations, it was also a good-looking system and worked well.
To be exact, this is what MkPortal Development Staff said about it;
MKPortal is a free Portal/Content Management System (CMS) which seamlessly integrates with the most popular forum softwares (Simple Machines, Invision Power Board 1.3 and 2.x, phpBB, MyBB and vBulletin). It uses the forum user management system and other features and adds many powerful modules to create and manage a light but powerful web site. MKPortal has an intuitive user interface and is very simple to install and administer.
- Don K. Colburn. (2003). MKPortal – Free Portal/Content Management System with Forum Integration. Available: http://www.mkportal.it/index.php?ind=home. Last accessed 26 Dec 2009.
But sadly, on October, 30th of the year 2009 it was closed down.


