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[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#139611

I just want to give my own personal thank you to Joomlart.com! I signed up in September last year, without even really knowing what Joomla itself is. All the people here were very helpful to a newbie these days, and the one thing that made it possible for me to use the knowledge I had to absorb compressed from this forum in bliss of time, was that JA Templates have a simple CSS structure like also Magento has in general. You always know what is where and in a matter of weeks to month one can make most the changes without even using firebug and other tools.

Although I officially abandonded VirtueMart from my hot codes list and will not use Joomla with VM until a complete new version will come out, I will still use Joomla and Joomlart.com templates for various purposes and wish that Joomlart.com will create a JomSocial community template with integrated forum soon (surely users will have to get the commercial component before being able to use the site but CB is not really the perfect community solution) and may change their new templates to be more lightweight but still fancy.

Thanks!

P.S: Maybe you guys can do something similar like TemplatePlazza.com did with their new Comuna3 template. They offer one version with Community Builder integrated in their quickstart and one JomSocial version where users will have to get this commercial extension to run the site with it after installation of the quickstart but provide a custom matching JomSocial Theme matching the template for those wanting to use and willing to pay for JomSocial.

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[caslak Friend caslakJoin date: September 2007Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#298853

Thanks! ……

[katy39 Friend katy39Join date: February 2009Posts: 66Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#299142

<em>@wooohanetworks 120604 wrote:</em><blockquote> wish that Joomlart.com will create a JomSocial community template with integrated forum soon (surely users will have to get the commercial component before being able to use the site but CB is not really the perfect community solution) and may change their new templates to be more lightweight but still fancy.

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I would really really like to see a community template come out. From the different forums I have been to, there is a big demand for one.

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1. wooohanetworks

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#299156

Righr now I play with the thought to use the Comuna3 Template with JomSocial, but as this may again take some time, we won’t know if there will be anything actually better again in the coming weeks or months and maybe even from Joomlart.com. I rather open a clean community with a perfect template, must not even look a bit like my main site, in this case a Magento store but should give a clean place for people to discuss, meet and so also will need a proper forum matching the JomSocial quality.

As until then it might be enough time for the makers of JFusion, a bridge between Magento and Joomla, to get this product sorted, maybe they have their yet still beta version made stable then, otherwise, will I wait until they got this bridge stable, since going to Magento I am not about using any true beta version or buggy Joomla like club templates for my shop.

After the month of work on my VM store that I now stopped as it makes no sense anymore working with Joomla with VM and all the errors, faults and bugs, I will never again switch back or keep the same try me in, try me out ways when it comes to extensions, templates and software in general. Never again!:D Those costs I would have to accept for cleaning codes and bugs I rather spend into a clean Magentosite,

I even play with the thought to replace my simple Joomla company homepage with a CSS Full Flash site, as it gives a feeling of all sorted well and not more this free Joomla here, free Joomla there feeling also when I still like Joomla and the templates available…;)

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#299159

I’m still wondering why you’ve “abandoned” VirtueMart

[scotty Friend scottyJoin date: March 2008Posts: 2339Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 827 times in 595 posts]

#299163

<blockquote>Those costs I would have to accept for cleaning codes and bugs I rather spend into a clean Magentosite</blockquote>

…because Magento has no bugs! :laugh:

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#299184

<em>@tcraw1010 121647 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m still wondering why you’ve “abandoned” VirtueMart</blockquote>

The costs, nothing else, if I could do all the enhancements I still need after half a year of learning, tweaking, modding on my own, I still wouild have continued work on my site. But as I can’t I won’t.

Now the case is also that a lot of cheap programmers do it like I thought it is the only way, hacking the VM core files and making changes directly in the system. Any update to a new version becomes literally impossible. Now I know that the better ones, do it with adding all those to custom made Joomla components that work in conjunction with VM and you can imagine that this will cost “a bit more”.

Now I could have done it that way, simply hacking further, paying some people some money to do the things I could not, but hey, there is Magento and even VirtueMart 2.0 coming somewhere in 2010 will not be compatible to the now coming 1.2 anymore. So it would have been money wasted in the long run, as Magento will stay compatible to itself for some longer time.

This is all, nothing else, money I do not like to spend into it and when I started the modding last year, Magento was still less competitive than now, some ERP solutions I missed but already had for VM, osCommerce was running out already as a good alternative for my uses and so I chose VM and it was literally unforseeable as a non-tech-pro that all those features I need for a good shop of mine VM will not bring. I also only heard good words about VM, super nice shopping system and so on, later on, the missing support in the forums there made it clear, there is something going wrong with VM and by now I already have my Magento running, will also have to do some moddings with a pro but the whole deal finally reaches a point where I see success for my plans, that is most important.

The other reasons I already mentioned in my prior post.

[veotis Friend veotisJoin date: October 2009Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#321969

Great to see you’ve done so much in a year. I just joined, and have been looking over the site. Sooo much information to take in. One thing I really like is the forum. To me a forum gives the big picture of things, where normal folks are honestly giving their experiences. Thanks for your positive post, for I know I’m in the right place! 🙂

[sheldonwrights Friend sheldonwrightsJoin date: December 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#326762

Wow! You have done very well my friend I Have just joined too. This is very inspiring

Thanks buddy..

[nefar Friend nefarJoin date: December 2007Posts: 434Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 78 Thanked: 42 times in 1 posts]

#326766

I decided to ditch Joomla along with virtuemart as well and go with Magento. The more I work with it I wish I would of never even bothered with VM. It will be a happy day for me when I go live with the new platform.

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1. jack705

[startapreschool Friend startapreschoolJoin date: March 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#338445

I think Joomla is the simpliest and most user friendly CMS out there. When you compare Jooma to WordPress its like looking at a Mac vs. Windows XP. I had Windows on my mac and it was just painful to use it after using the Mac. Similarly Joomla is the way. Thanks JA for allowing us normal folks to be able to create really cool sites!

[markleob Friend markleobJoin date: March 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#338450

yeah i guess we the same story. i am just new here and i dont know what joomla is. i only have a little background on php, average on css and advance in html.

could anyone explain a bit about what joomla is?

[jack705 Friend jack705Join date: March 2010Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 1 times in 2 posts]

#338979

I agree a template is really a starting point for all the fun afterwards, you click a template and magic begins:D

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