[Laughingbird]

After researching and hacking my vBulletin forum, I've finally found the answer on merging a Joomla front end with my vBulletin forum.

I'm very happy with the look and feel.
Let me know what you think;
The Small Business Design Network - Because design matters, and networking is fun!

I used a company called bbpixal (a very nice group of people) to help me merge everything. I'll post an article on the forum on how it was all created if any of you are interested.

Marc

[Brandon Sheley]

It looks really good, but the page is a bit long for me, and I would add a custom favicon
Other then that, great job merging joomla & vbulletin

[Laughingbird]

Hi LocoM!

Hey, thanks for the Favicon link.
Forgot all about that - ... and thanks for the feedback!

- Marc

[Brandon Sheley]

What do the member think of it? and no problem on the favicon suggestion
and I'm pretty sure I've spent some time looking over this business card make you have
Easy to use Business Card Software
I didn't know you had a webgraphics package too, I bookmarked it and will check it all out later when I have a bit more time

[lafsunlmtd]

my man, this is very impressive just on the first glance, it has some uniqueness and some familiarity. i really like the little blue box you got, it really catches your eye and makes you wanna get in there. Very nice

[Laughingbird]

Originally Posted by lafsunlmtd

my man, this is very impressive just on the first glance, it has some uniqueness and some familiarity. i really like the little blue box you got, it really catches your eye and makes you wanna get in there. Very nice

Hey, thanks for the compliment lafsunlmtd!
Much appreciated.


... locoM: The members seem to really like the new look and feel of the forum.

[rockinaway]

That is a very nice looking page. Would you mind telling us about the basics of implementing it so that other members can try it?

[Laughingbird]

Originally Posted by rockinaway

That is a very nice looking page. Would you mind telling us about the basics of implementing it so that other members can try it?

Thanks rockinaway.
Appreciate the kind words.

I've written how I did it all on my site's home page, but for ease of clicking, I'll copy and paste it all here;


The Joomla front end.

... if you've never heard of Joomla, you need to check it out. Joomla (Joomla!) is a way to create a "web 2.0" website. The system is very similar to something like Wordpress in that it let's you set up your 'theme' (the site's look and feel) and then change small elements of the site (called "modules" in Joomla).

I can go on for hours about it all, but you should check it out for yourself when you can.

Finding a nice Joomla template:

The next thing I had to do was find a template for the forum. There are hundreds of Joomla designers on the web. ...I've been incredibly happy with a company called Yootheme.com - they require you to have a membership with them (I opted for the year membership) but so worth it in my opinion.

How I merged Joomla with the vBulletin forum.

Finally, I needed to merge the Joomla front end with the vBulletin forum.

After researching a multi dozens of threads from other forums, I finally found a post that pointed me to a company called BBPixel.com | Home

After writing to them for suggestions and help, they told me they could easily merge a Joomla front end with a vBulletin forum. ... for about $80 (USD).

Within 48 hours, it was done! And I'm very happy with the results.



Hope this helps!
I'm here if you have any questions about any of it

Marc

[Xhaiden]

Great looking site. Just so others know there is a new addon for joomla being developed called jfusion which integrates with all major forums and soon will be able to tie together just about anything!! Just thought I'd let people know

[stephenweb]

great