Building a "Coupon" website using Joomla!

Hi all,

I have created a few Joomla! based sites in the past couple of years.

I have got a new assignment from one of our clients to build a "Coupon" site using Joomla! as the content management system.

I would like to create a site on the lines of retailmenot(dot)com and couponcabin(dot)com where apart from the webmaster, the user community can also submit coupon codes.

How should I start here? Are there templates available in the market which are specifically build for this?

Would appreciate suggestions on this as I am quite confused

Thanks

 

You can use a classifieds plugin, or have a classifieds plugin customized to do what you want. I do not do those things, but a regular PHP programmer would be able to.

 

I just looked at one of the sites you mention in your post. As far as templates go, you will find many template clubs for Joomla that have that look like the site above. (retailmenot) I could not figure out what they are using exactly for that site but it is very modular looking and most Joomla templates can do that.

You could also look at a directory type component, SOBI 2 for example is open-source and can be customized to suit your needs. Its huge and can do a great deal for you without any customization.

 

Any catalog extension can do this thing to. You need to modified of course.

 

@barattadesign: SOBI2 is indeed a great suggestion, will dig into it further. Thanks

 

Hi,

At the Joomla extensions directory under "New Extensions" you should see a new component that just came out today Oct.4-2009 called "Coupon Management System". It is opensource and I have not tried it yet.

 

@Baratta Design,

can you please post the link to this Joomla extension.

Thanks.

 

Yes u can using classified plugin and make some editing at that plugin,i suggest you to hire some php programmer

 

You could probably use it to let users post coupons. If not, then that post was spam

I checked out that Joomla plugin and it does not look that great. I build my coupon site using wordpress

http://coupons.ruddo.com

 

You really don't need any component to add coupons to a Joomla site. Just enter the coupons into an article format listed in a particular category and section. And yes you are right, that Component that was listed at the Joomla extension directory as a 'Coupon Management System' doesn't look very good. There are dozens of components that could be used since all that is happening is someone is submitting something. Which Joomla does without any add on.

 

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