Please let me know of the best way to accomplish this or how much you would charge to fix it all. This is my 1st Joomla site so I'm not sure what to use. The site is Cheepmomdotcom 1. Commenting on articles 2. Rating articles 3. Uploading products through cvs file and user rating like http://www.reviewsforjoomla.com/orders/browse_products.php (Is there something nearly as good for free?) 4. Some sort of community. I'm not sure if I should go with a message board or a facebook type community. It looks like community builder is the most popular. Would this be your recommendation? 5. When you click on a category in the menu, I would like the articles to show up with some text and read more... like it is on the front page. How would I do this? 6. I would like some sort of directory like the product review & rating above but users enter their service, website, etc.. & others review it. 7. Is there anything else you can think of that would make my site better?
I forgot these: 7. I would like to have a twitter & Facebook badge on the site 8. Social sharing for articles 9. Feeds working (I know nothing about feeds)
» Use the blogging component of Joomla for your first point. » Joomla has this also. » CB may be able to take care of this. » CB does this. Yes. » Use the "read more" option at the bottom of the text editor. It is available for any article, if enabled. » CB again. » Tag cloud, xml sitemap for search engines, optimized for search engines.... lots more. Second post : » Not a problem. » Plugins are available for this. » Joomla has this by default, but do not use ( install ) the default data, just enable it after installation.
1. I use JComments component 2. there is a rating feature that comes standard with joomla. activate the setting in the admin. article manager>parameters (top right) > and show ratings 3. not sure 4. Yes, community builder. It has tons of functions and you can totally customize it to your needs. 5. Try adding this to your article code where you want the read more. <hr id="system-readmore" /> JComments also does that for you 6. not sure 7. install stalker module 8. use twitterfeed or ping.fm 9. joomla comes with a feed display by default