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  • Advice and Suggestions

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • All,

      I'm thinking through a project here. I'd like to have a blog site - that has a community aspect in the future. WIth multiple authors etc. It would allow people to write about the types of training they're doing, keep a training log, have topical blogs, and allow people to follow those blogs.

      I'm trying to think through how to best organize such a thing, and which template would be most appropriate.

      Would this be a community builder or JoomSocial type of integration or would you just use straight joomla configured/organized well.

      In the future I'd like to monitize this site.

      Interested in peoples opinions.
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    Re: Advice and Suggestions

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Wordpress might be a better option.
      You can do multisite with WP.
      wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
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  • Re: Advice and Suggestions

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Joe, I think that's probably right. However, I decided to be Joomla only - I can only learn one system with my limited brain.
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    Re: Advice and Suggestions

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • JRW,
      I've completed one project like this and am working on a second.
      Here are some of the components you should consider:
      1)JomSocial - provides the community (better than CB out of the box)
      2) EasyBlog by StackIdeas - makes is easier for your bloggers/contributors to create/manage articles
      3)JMailAlerts from TechJoomla - Every time content is added to the site (or a forum post, community message,etc.), a notifier is sent out and I see visits spike . Great tool to keep visitors coming back to the site.
      4) I haven't tried this yet because I was waiting for their JomSocial targeting, but you may want to look at iJoomla Ad Agency for ads & monetization.
      5) Forum - Kunena, because of integration with all of the above.

      As for the template, any will work . I used Panacea on the first one and may use Zephyr on the 2nd. I had to style some of the components to match the template.

      Hope some of this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
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  • Re: Advice and Suggestions

    Posted 13 years 5 months ago
    • Jzuver,

      Fantastic - would you be willing to share with me the URL, PM is fine, for the site that you've made and/or that you're working on. Possibly we could swap ideas some.

      I have looked at Ad Agency, and have used Kunena on several sites. I've purchased a license for EasyBlog, but have not implemented it yet on any site.

      Thanks for your post - I hope we can learn from one another!
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