Question Community Builder: the right option?

Having spent time dissing the forums over at Joomlapolis, this thread appears to offer some useful advice.

Haven't tried it yet though!

yes they meant jomsocial from azrul when they said joomunity

i think as well that the joomlapolis site needs a revamp. Get a new better looking and functioning forum like Kunena (then they would know the issues that occur with Kunena and CB integration!!).

Also i think the CB Paid Subscriptions system is aimed too high. It is a commercial venture that would only be useful for large sites and corporations, but then i think if a business or site with a large turnover to generate the sales of that nature would have a more custom (and probably not joomla site). I think the Paid Subscriptions could be made into a commercial licence with no ongoing costs, as otherwise it means smaller websites cant use it.

The CB team need some designers and css gurus to undertake a big templating drive and make heaps of cool templates (aka jomsocial style and more). They could do this by doing a fundraising drive then paying a designer to do it. The engine of CB is great and is stable but it doesnt "sell" itself and looks a bit outdated thats all. a revamp of the joomlapolis site as well would help, i think there is a large enough community to all chip in and fundraise more template and design work.

Anyway just some thoughts.

peetree21 wrote:

The CB team need some designers and css gurus to undertake a big templating drive and make heaps of cool templates (aka jomsocial style and more). They could do this by doing a fundraising drive then paying a designer to do it. The engine of CB is great and is stable but it doesnt "sell" itself and looks a bit outdated thats all. a revamp of the joomlapolis site as well would help, i think there is a large enough community to all chip in and fundraise more template and design work.

Anyway just some thoughts.

Totally Agree
Default template looks dull as if some HTML Student done it.
Also, the CSS of new CB1.2 is so so BAD that I am still staying with CB1.1.
CB1.2's CSS is totally mess specially with tables.

suman wrote:

Default template looks dull as if some HTML Student done it.
Also, the CSS of new CB1.2 is so so BAD that I am still staying with CB1.1.
CB1.2's CSS is totally mess specially with tables.

What's wrong with it? Is it badly written, or difficult to customise, or what?

If anyone is interested in a working demonstration of Community Builder with Kunena, you're welcome to visit www.enduring.com.au/40P_demo/ .

Thanks very much, I like that a lot.

Is that a standard install of Joom Gallery you have there? It integrates nicely and looks far easier to use than whatever they're using on Joomlapolis.

Did you have pre-existing users before you installed CB, and if so did the install go ok?

Many thanks again. it's very reassuring to see that.