What I'm currently doing on my site is using Simple Portal (http://simpleportal.net) which has a feature that will allow you to select a board of which it's topics will appear in the portal. For PGD you can setup a moderated board for user submitted news and once its approved it will show up on the front page, ala GameDev.net and DevMaster.net.TBH, I don't feel much going through yet another website migration.
Putting news on is not all that much work. Unfortunately its not possible to select a topic in the forum and just 'promote' it to a news item, but a simple copy/paste with some minor moderation does the trick well.
IMO, what we need is a few people willing to help out in this particular area.
All the MODs used on the site are free with the exception of:[*]SMF Store ($89US)[*]Newsletter Pro ($45)[*]Twitter and Facebook Publisher copyright removal ($15US)[*]MF Advanced Topic Prefix ($10US)
I too had lots of trouble with customized themes and eventually gave up and just starting using the new curve default theme (SMF 2.0).
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