Question Community Builder: the right option?

Mr Livered wrote:

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.

You're most welcome, mate!

I'm using the standard JoomGallery 1.5 RC2 (latest release) from www.en.joomgallery.net/ . To integrate this with CB, I used JoomGallery's "Gallery Tab Plugin" ( www.en.joomgallery.net/downloads/view-do...cb-gallerytab-3.html ).

I have no idea whether the Joomlapolis website uses JoomGallery.

I had developed several demonstration sites before I built the one you visited. The short answer is "yes", I had existing users (registered the standard Joomla way) before I installed CB. They were migrated into CB quite seamlessly. In the version you visited, I installed CB before I made the site available to the public. Keep this thought in mind, though: you always have at least one user before you install CB ... the site administrator!

Cheers

sozz

suman wrote:

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 The engine of CB is great and is stable but it doesnt "sell" itself and looks a bit outdated thats all.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.

thanks for the compliments on the engine, that's where our focus was for over a year.
yes, we still have some work on the look

CB 1.2's CSS html-markup has been improved over CB 1.1, with the help of a (paid) professional designer.

There is a new MyCommunity template too (commercial) as result of those improvements (which will hopefully help paying back for the investment in the designer, as well as help doing more improvements).

Anyway, as I'm surprised about the critics on css markup, could you please give exact things which you see being wrong ?

We will gladly fix/improve it.

peetree21 wrote:

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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.

Thanks for sharing, agreeing on most of these items.

- Forum: we had to stick with a security-fixed version of simpleBoard for performance reasons. We are in contact with Kunena team who is aware of those issues, which will be fixed as we heard.

- Paid subs plugin system will be affordable for smaller sites too. We have listened to feedbacks regarding our proposed pricing scheme (which was in fact very affordable to start, but that fact got unfortunately misunderstood) which has been withdrawn in mean time, and will be announcing a classic scheme when the RC is ready, soon.

- 2 designers are now on board, as well as template designers, more to come

- Yes, site needs a revamp. We will be improving little things on the way (suggestions welcome) and more will be done once we have all those little plugins, docs, and perfect Kunena integration in released

- There are many add-on plugins which are on their way to release, so we are busy like hell, but with fun.

I'd also make a couple of other comments in relation to the CB integration with Kunena:

There is a known problem with signatures not working within the Kunena forum. Although it's possible for an administrator/manager to modify users signatures (from the backend), it's not possible for users to do that for themselves.

There is still no "official" Kunena plugin for Community Builder. Although it's possible to view a user's forum posts from within their CB profile, the mechanism to achieve this is a kludge of the existing cbsimpleforumtab plugin ... and there are known problems installing this feature.

I'm also waiting on the integration of CB's CAPTCHA as a public release as part of the user registration process. It's difficult to justify the expense of €25 for a feature that really should be part of the core build. On the other hand, if you install Community Builder it's a bit like moving into a brand new home for free ... but having to pay for the front door key.

beat wrote:

Thanks for sharing, agreeing on most of these items.

- Forum: we had to stick with a security-fixed version of simpleBoard for performance reasons. We are in contact with Kunena team who is aware of those issues, which will be fixed as we heard.

- Paid subs plugin system will be affordable for smaller sites too. We have listened to feedbacks regarding our proposed pricing scheme (which was in fact very affordable to start, but that fact got unfortunately misunderstood) which has been withdrawn in mean time, and will be announcing a classic scheme when the RC is ready, soon.

- 2 designers are now on board, as well as template designers, more to come

- Yes, site needs a revamp. We will be improving little things on the way (suggestions welcome) and more will be done once we have all those little plugins, docs, and perfect Kunena integration in released

- There are many add-on plugins which are on their way to release, so we are busy like hell, but with fun.

cheers beat!

thanks for listening to my thoughts

CB is a great component but the unfortunate problem is that people dont realise the power behind it as they simply judge it on its looks. If we can 'freshen' up the site and also templates i think the community will grow even bigger and better.

Also a better functioning forum will allow more community interaction, i find the current joomlaboard solution abit clumsy and sometimes a little hard to use.

As you can see by uservoice the integration of CB1.2 stable is the top priority of kunena users and so if joomlapolis is using it then you will see the issues we are facing at the moment.

Keep up the great work!!

* on a side note, the Kunena CB forum plugin needs to ensure it does not show registered members forums that are set to Author, Editor, Admin access level. Which the current one does.

Hello,

two suggestions for CB-optic:

1. make it possible to show the Tabs in Slides (like Tabs and Slide from www.joomlaworks.gr/ ). More better to have two slide options: First click it open only for the first X entries (for example first five friends), Second click on the tabs it open complete.

2. make it possible to have a icon for every tab and to have a tab which includes every icon as a menue..

This make it possible to build a layout like facebook...