Question *NEW* Community Builder Template

HaHa! Grumble... I think you and I clashed heads in the past and I see why but your growing on me! I do agree however that a LOT of people see really neat ideas and just want it and aren't so much concerned about learning.

I remember back when I first started with Joomla! I was a nub, didn't know the first thing about it and now I am no expert but feel like I can get around pretty well. The best thing is the realationships I have formed. Anyone care for a hug? Not really I will hit you if you try and hug me but yea I get ya!

Profile Book << This ones tricky and a pain in my R****m... seriously! The bad thing about this plugin is that it consist of (3) three profile tabs, "Profile Book, Profile Blog, Profile Wall" << Why three? Anyways I have to sort through the code and find where all my Div's need to be placed so I already know for sure that its going to take me some time to impliment the Open/Close feature there.

To Do List: (Open/Close feature)

1. FB/Kunena Tab
2. Profile Book/Profile Blog/Profile Wall
3. Twitter Updates
4. Profile Gallery
5. Etc...


To Do List: (Template)

1. Modify CSS for Tabs display
2. Add additional Tab Place Holders
3. Modify graphics to suite the general template
4. Cleanup Code
5. *MAYBE* Hack CB Menu and add additional links *Been Investigating this one might need help*

If anyone wants to lend a hand with the CB Menu and help speed the process that would be nice.

The functionality I am wanting to add is when a user visits His/Her own profile they also see an Inbox tab with links such as Inbox, Sent Box, Write Message, Archive. Then an additional tab that says Invite with in my case links to ParaInvite << These would all be customizeable.

Thanks,
James

FYI!!!!

New Demo content is available here: www.industrialjobs.org for testing purposes.
I have done testing in both FireFox and IE7, My main template has issues in Safari so don't even tell me about them "I'll cut ya!" but in all seriousness I have spent the last 5 hours working on it and fine tuning.

Big changes!!!

No longer will I have to hack each plugin to add the functionality of the Open/Close feature. Now it is inside the Template. Running into an issue here however where I need it to be hidden but at this point its "ALWAYS" visible even if the user has not select that Plugin/Tab in my Plugin Selection addition. If you don't ever plan on buying/using the Plugin Selection then it really doesn't matter.

As for the ability to add new Positions in the template itself its pretty easy a matter of (4) lines of code... well I take that back! I will explain later its like 2:00am, have to be at work at 7:00am and I still need to take a shower.

Anyhow, here is the demo login details:

Login Link: www.industrialjobs.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&Itemid=55 "DO NOT TRY LOGGING IN ON THE MEMBER LOGIN PAGE!!!! I AM WORKING ON IT"

Username: hjames83
Password: tester

FYI!! All of the plugins which have the necessary code to Open/Close are activated so turning others on in the Plugin Selection will only put them in Div's or Tabs or HTML.... so no point.

Later and give me some feedback.

James

Since an issue on this topic is about charging for it and if hjames is going to charge $10, I say whats your paypal email? Ill give you $10 right now because I believe this is a great idea. Even though ppl state that joomla extensions should be free... I think that $5 - $10 dollars is fine if the extension is worthy. Its when an extension reaches like $90 is when It ruins the free idea. So much time and effort is put into coding, I think that this should be a win win, the coder gets $10 and keeps wanting to do more work and the user gets a sweet extension... $10 dollars to the coder for an awesome thing only makes him want to do more in the end ( or at least thats how I see it)! thats just my idea. HAHA SORRY FOR RAMBLING! keep up the work, the demo looks amazing.

Sorry guys, its Easter here in the US. Not sure who all is from here but that's the reason for my delay. I will have a new update by the end of the weekend.

Thanks,
James

Does anyone have a request for features? Or color variations? Please let me know what you all want.... come on folks!

James

A thought on visuals. Try matching to some of the popular template makers most popular offerings.