daman

Kinda interesting to know the reasons behind the move.

I'm the owner of a joomla/phpbb site before I moved away from it and to vba/vb now.

The biggest problem for me is that there is no joomla styles that blends perfectly with the forum styles. That's apparently is the same problem with gfx now. I will watch this closely and see what santai has up his sleeves

I have to admit that the vba front has limitation on how you can make it look good. Everywhere I go, all the site have the same 2/3 column styles, blocks...

If Santai can make custom joomla style that fits perfectly with the forum style, I would be all over it

For some of the best joomla designs, I would recommend Joomla Templates = RocketTheme Joomla Templates Club Demo Site

I have used them for sometimes and extremely impressed with their design. Just wish that can be incoperated into the forum design.

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Santai

yes we are -

need more, a better way to organize things.
styles and support for the forum, loosing a lot of mods and things we dont' use.

have more content to add - graphics, templates for - sites -
other graphics which can help build a site.

rocket themes - got a few from some place ?? had a quick lesson in how to use the templates Joomla has - not hard at all .
Found one site that has a some using different options, have a couple of them installed to play and learn.

know the site can be wrapped, and keep the Joomla header, footer and side bar.

if we didnt' need to have a complete board - header and footer - available here for the styles i could and would use vB this way, only a style or styles that are compatible with the colors that are used in Joomla could be made/ used ;; the bridge they have works so the log in is solved.. .

have 3 things to finish here before i get more into getting the 2 to work together -
adding the articles and all --

getting rid of the stock 2 or 3 col look is not to hard with Joomla, just re arrange the location of the blocks - or are different lay outs for different things now.

have another license for vB -- may use it as a demo board for the styles, and set this up with Joomla as a wrapper for vB, could even do it for one style here to let people see how the 2 look this way.

Like and enjoy working with different projects and options with vB.
right now we do styles for vB - but integration with other software is always another thing to add.

matching the 2 together for one style is possible, just need to know which - vB or Joomla style too use for a base.

more than one style -- know this could be done, just a style chooser would need to be written to sync the 2 -

added link : Joomla - Joomla Components, Modules, iJoomla Magazine V 2.0

am looking at something like this for articles, the news one thay have is not bad either

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daman

I used joomla for a year so I know what you are talking.

What version of joomla you using ? 1.1.12 ? Why not 1.5 ?


I thought about how you would blend the joomla and vb together.

if you look at the Rocketthemes demo i posted, I like the Bentobox style.

You can put the forum in a wrapper without the header and footer. Use the Frontpage Slideshow.

What software you use to bridge the login ?

If you putup the Bentobox and vb on the demo site, I'd love to see.

What would you more comfortable doing ? changing vb style to match joomla or changing joomla to match vb style ?

Can you use the width chooser to change the width of the joomla front as well ?


I still have joomla installed on my site...take a look before the move Online Financial Engineering Community

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Santai

1.5 is still in beta 1 - they are doing it right and dont' think to see a stable production release untill ?? -
reading would guess 60 days if not more.
they have a converter so nothing will be lost when the upGrade is done.

the options on that are great after reading it -- better than what i have there and for what will be needed soon - will look into this and probably use it, changed to match what we need

would say we will start on it and can watch it grow
a break from what we are doing, should be done with all but one next week -- think we all need some play time

the width , using the forum wrapper style would be controlled thru Joomla -- seen it done -- a wide and fixed styles together .. .

using this -- thought kinda expensive but it works, the first time -- and upGrades .. .
vBulletin Duo-Sync Bridge CB | ElearningForce

either way - think a good Joomla style is easier to move into vB for me right now untill i learn how to do it the other way. have always like to take from and give too
they use a lot of css and all and vBulletin dont -- am learning quick .. .

-- will see how this rocket thing looks -- will pm you a link to it later .. .

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I just installed bentobox style, frontpage slideshow....testing right now...will see how it looks.

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Santai

if i can get a link when you have it up .. .

will do a project thread on this -- then wright up an article on it after its' finished .

will just be a style on the site that is not used on its' own .. .

need to finish up one thing first here and will pay for a few with it


found the link

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daman

I don't think you need the bridge for login. Just let members log in/signup from the forum site. My experience with sign up from the joomla side is that lot of spam got through...10 a day...too much.

You only need bridge if you start with joomla and move to vb.

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Santai

have the bridge because thats where the downloads, graphics packs, web templates, flash stuff and all is going to be .. .

kinda membership thing for 5 gigs worth of misc items .

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