Can vBulletin do this?

[TrekLightGear]

I have a newbie question about the functionality of vBulletin and I'm hoping someone can help. I'd like to setup a forum on my current site but what I'd like to do is have an entry page that works as a sort of introduction to the forums and what it's about. I'd like that entry page to be mostly a "normal HTML looking" page but with a small forum section at the bottom. Essentially what I'd like to do is have the page tell people about the community and what they'll find inside the forums and then at the bottom have a 'Best Of The Forums' section which highlights what I consider some of the best threads from the forum.

What I'm hoping to do is create a separate section within my main forum called 'Best Of' and have just that section display on that introduction page. From an administrative standpoint, whenever I want a thread to appear on that introduction page I would just move it from wherever it exists in the main forum into the 'Best Of' section. Is there anyway to do this? The basic question I suppose is whether it's possible to isolate one specific section of a larger forum and have only that section appear on a separate HTML page.

Any thoughts?

[AdeptusAstartes]

With vbadvanced yes.

[LGNetw0rk]

vBadvanced (http://www.vbadvanced.com/) will allow you to do exactly what you need from the comfort of the vBulletin Administrator Panel.

[da420]

vBAdvanced will do what you want to do, but so will vbDrupal... I use vbDrupal myself, and love it...

[RvG]

vBAdvanced/vBDrupal :)

[TrekLightGear]

Okay, now is when I need to reiterate what a complete newbie I am. Can someone tell me (or direct me to a page, thread, etc.) what vBAdvanced/vBDrupal are and what the differences are between them? Are they add-ons to the vBulletin software? Free? Licensed?

[LGNetw0rk]

vBadvanced (http://www.vbadvanced.com/) is a portal for your forum home page. When you go to the website, you will see exactly what it looks like, as it is being used. You have full control over it in the vBulletin Administrator Panel - you can add new modules (the boxes you see), adjust them to the left/right/center, and make brand new pages, which you can virtually use to create a website with right on your vBulletin forum. The license for vBadvanced CMPS is free, once you register and login. View complete details on vBadvanced here. (http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&productid=4)