Long story short, I am planning a website that would offer a discourse community and general tabs to provide information.
No matter how hard I search I cannot seem to figure out before starting a 14 day trial if the customization of discourse allows for what I’m looking for.
Cartalk.com is somewhat close to what I want as in a few tabs providing information along with a community or chat tab with discourse.
Is the only thing discourse is providing is the forum function under their “community” tab or the overall theme of that site to include the forum?
I want to make sure I’m not putting the carriage before the horse in terms of having a discourse before the rest of the website if there are no templates in which to build on.
Thanks so much for the speedy reply. I’m glad I asked as I didn’t want to start the trial and get things going without the rest of the site getting up and going first.
Out of curiosity, is there any website template builders that work well with embedding discourse?
I couldn’t find it in a quick search but may have the name wrong. With there being a plugin for WP likely one of the easier options. But don’t quite me.
Something else to note. Since you mentioned free trial. Your looking into Hosted Discourse. So you need to look at the Hosting plans to see what plugins are included to help achieve your objective best. Ie if the WP plugin is included for example.
Technically you can have a stand alone discourse site but as the other responses have stated you may want to have a word-press or other platform for site home page.