Online Community for the Divorced
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- Jia Lu
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People always say that Joomla is not ideal for community sites. While I agree that Joomla is more suitable for news portals and content websites, I still think with the help of community builder, one can turn Joomla into a nice online community.
This is officially my first website:
http://dengzu.com
It's almost done and will go live within a couple of weeks=) Spent all my summer vacation on it...
I used:- one of RT's template (GUESS which one?^^)
- community builder (modified... please check my profile here: http://dengzu.com/灯心 )
- many cb plugins
- groupjive
- joomlaboard
- facileform
- I also modified com_content so that I have the author avatar displayed nicely beside each article=)(check it out here: http://dengzu.com/content/blogcategory/0/11/ )
DO give me some feedbacks! You are all great designers and I need to hear your comments! Thanks!^^
ps: forgive me if you don't read Chinese...^^ - Last Edit: 17 years 4 months ago by Jia Lu.
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- Jia Lu
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Seems profile url is causing some problems... :'( please check my profile here instead:
http://dengzu.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,62/
Problem solved! remove Itemid from url and all is fine...^^ - Last Edit: 17 years 4 months ago by Jia Lu.
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- damo
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the source says sporticus news
you dont look old enough to be divorced though - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Jia Lu
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Hey! That's not GUESS! hmm.....
I am not creating this website for my own need, obviously...=) - dengzu.com
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- Jia Lu
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- I have changed the background of this site to make it look lighter. Really need some feedback guys=)
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what RT template is that? This is your very first website ever? Or your first website built using Joomla?
The design looks good. Simple and clean with nice border and the little hearts.
Not knowing Chinese is actually a big block to critiquing the design because for me, design includes the art of usability and creative display of content. Since I cannot understand the content, I cannot fully judge the design!
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- Jia Lu
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Hi, David! I'm glad you asked. This site is using extremely modified sporticus news=p
It's a community site but I'm not sure how to promote from the beginning. If a site has very few registered users it's very difficult to get new users sign up. Anybody with successful community site experience? I need your suggestions! - dengzu.com
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I usually find excellent marketing advice on the Sitepoint forums
www.sitepoint.com/forums/
Look in their business and promotion categories. They also have a community site category, which I'm sure you'll find quite helpful.
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- Franck
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It's a community site but I'm not sure how to promote from the beginning. If a site has very few registered users it's very difficult to get new users sign up.
Yes, it's the BIG problem when you start an online community. I really think the more important is to work on SEO to have a good ranking. It's an hard work but necessary if you want traffic from search engine: traffic = visitors = registered members.
First it's necessary to patch the joomla core. Joomla Patch extended do this work very well. Then, you can apply <h1> tag with all content titles. There are many other important things to do to improve SEO in Joomla! When you think about visitors, don't forget the important work you must do for SE ranking.
You can also use a "recommend" or "tell a friend" module (search for ajaxrecommend at sakic.net) and/or the "plaxo invite" commercial plugin for CB. These tools let your visitors and users invite other peoples to join the community.
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Lookin simple and easy to use. Good job.
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