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[moixa Friend moixaJoin date: January 2009Posts: 7Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#137636

Hi,

As topic title says, there seems to be no constructive criticism area, for members to moan / congratulate JA?, Like most people have a bad day at work etc you can moan, but I would hate to moan about JA in front of “non-members”, so where do we talk ? I am new but find your forum layout awkward (not used to Vbulletin? – or maybe just sort forums for templates in alphabetical order? or template release order? it just confuses me!

Anyhow, I sent a post in about the phpbb3 theme thread relating to people polling for if think Ja
should do some templates for Phpbb3.

And I just thought as at times I talk a lot, and i guess would love to meet some people who can possibly help me, or give me advice or at least say go away! – I thought I just post what I had to say here. As for someone like me it would be fantastc, and we al have to start from somewhere..maybe I am wrong.

This may seem a little out of context, but this was in relation to a poll if PHPbb3 themes (possibly others) made by JA

Hi,

Just for my tuppence worth, I have recently joined JA after my RT membership expired, I think both of the clubs offer very good templates… but you need to have some knowledge of joomla, what you wish to do with your site (s) etc. Last year, for my year with RT I had never used Joomla so thought get a template from them and that would be it, a website finished and I would be rich over night with very little knowledge etc and basically thought a website would run itself because who could resist a flashy template? – but all I did really for many months of the year was just to switch templates around, try change graphics and nothng really towards making a consistent stable website, like adding much content :P.

Well a year later I am wiser, but RT forums were extremely helpful, I do not run any web design company I work in a factory but like to see how stuff works and have a go for own amusement and I do learn something, even if not as rapid as some of the younger/older more talented people here and at RT. If I was half as talented as some of these teams and I guess like most of you would, I would have no need to join a club in the frst place or am I missing something?

As for me with joining a theme club is I wish to learn stuff, have a play around in my free time and over time get better and quicker at the little I can do. I do not make make money from the templates, re-colour them change a few things and sell to a client for a profit that many of you do for a living ( I am not moaning).

But I would personally love to see some phpbb3 themes coming from JA occasionaly and which are free to members, or maybe sold very cheaply per theme, the reason being PhPbb3 is a very popular forum and it is free and pretty stable, and well Vbulletin may be great but it costs and I do not sell a product so makes my “hobby” more expensive. RT made a big thing about their phpbb bridge last 6 months I was there, and seems now they nearly there they start to sell an addtional package for forum templates as well (as many of you know), personally they charge way too much. And a reason I left them was because after all this talk they did not provide even a simple basic template for free for members! which was extremely annoying.

Jfusion is free, I go with them they admit if not enough donations come in*possibly* they may have to charge, but it is out, people can use it at no cost and as you know it supports multiple forums, rather than just Phpbb3. And the Developers/Desgners among you I am sure would have no problem donating a little money to them if they help get you more business because of the intergration work they done.

I guess what I mean to say is, JA make us some lovely forum themes and free or very cheap, make people even keener to come here, and would increase your overall business and reputation! – If not wish to do, for what ever reason, maybe someone could run tutorials to help people like me so if you do not make the forum themes I could do them for you etc? but I love sites that offer tutorials and genuinely helpful and very informative – it makes me come back

Oups, sorry am overtired so is why I typed so much, I hope makes sense but as a new memeber here is my little byte sized chunk.

Make a vote on poll, one way or another:p

Regards,

Moixa

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#288841

Heya,

It’s more about the additional workload that you’ll gain when you start adding more products to your arsenal of templates. For example, JA have over 60 templates, all of which require updating every time a new version fo Joomla is released.

They’ve now taken on Magento, another open source product, which compliments a lot of what JA have achieved so far.

As it is, just by doing that, they’ve directly doubled their workload, and need for support. It will require a huge amount of man power, or people like us to help each other. This is a feedback forum by the way, which is for anything, negative or positive.

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#288843

And some people said I write too long posts…:D BTW, Joomlart.com already announced that they will update the site soon…

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#288844

Thanks spmedia for fast response, but you did not really answer the questions I raised, well apart from I can post what I like really anywhere – so no particular forum for that?, I do appreciate the JA team are busy, but also people like me need advice and help and I thought a few tutorials or useful threads would help a lot? – even off site links to good tutorials they recommend, I know is a template club – so really deal wth templates, but I think most people take the word “club” a little deeper and would really hope for more – maybe when you join JA thread for new members and listed under it is all the basic stuff you need like a how to?

AS I mentioned in original post I am not a developer, just wish to learn more, maybe if others see this feel can just help me or want to learn/or me try help them they would give me a shout

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#288845

Tutorials are added sticky to any thread related to a specific template or extensions. In any download folder for an extension you will also find a download for the documentation.

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#288847

Hi Woooha!

Sorry shortened name, but does what I say make sense to you? how are you meant to help yourself if no one helps you? and as no one mentioned the phpbb3 poll,well vote on it, that s why am here – not because of phpbb3, but because I was curious and for me as if read my post was about intergration of forums?

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#288854

<em>@moixa 109018 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Woooha!

Sorry shortened name, but does what I say make sense to you? how are you meant to help yourself if no one helps you? and as no one mentioned the phpbb3 poll,well vote on it, that s why am here – not because of phpbb3, but because I was curious and for me as if read my post was about intergration of forums?</blockquote>

It makes sense, but I could not read all of it right away… I also do not know what to change honestly, I came up with some enhancements to the forum earlier and I hope they will be done soon. The initial feedback was positive. The case is your points must also make a business wise sense, especially also RT is all about the money, so either it must be something very exiting that members achieve for members and the quality of the products delivered by the staff will not be affected in ways, that additional time and money must be spent before knowing if it will ever pay out. Joomlart.com will also offer Magento Themes soon, this is some good idea and also from the business perspective something that will not end in Joomlart.com being closed as some investment in just another phpBB3 theme site has eaten all the money away and was business wise not a good idea…

From the simple “would you like it” perspective, I also would not disagree to the poll for some phpBB3 templates. But honestly, it should maybe be one or two in a package with some new template like JA Cooper or so….This would pay out…for Members and Joomlart.com itself.;)

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#288859

Thanks WoooHa!

I was really saying how I felt about being a non -developer regardings RT (maybe JA – but too early to tell) , I am certainly not suggestng JA make another bridge! , but a few templates be nice,and I did not mean all the time, even a “once only adition” be nice, the reason being that I like community builder , and the varius enhancements it provides – which worked with Fireboard, exceptionally well and we do not know if fireboard continue or not. So me just being a minor compared to so many site builders here, that must be a concern.

So I ask, do I try the newer forums for intergration into joomla 1.5? (there s only 6 atm as fireboard got removed), and at least half of them are not registered as stable for a producton enviroment or just go for a bridge? – answers on a post card please? (even a bridge sucks as cannot code so gotta jump up and down a lot on my forum to try compress it into joomla template).

Regards Moixa

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#288860

<em>@moixa 109031 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks WoooHa!

I was really saying how I felt about being a non -developer regardings RT (maybe JA – but too early to tell) , I am certainly not suggestng JA make another bridge! , but a few templates be nice,and I did not mean all the time, even a “once only adition” be nice, the reason being that I like community builder , and the varius enhancements it provides – which worked with Fireboard, exceptionally well and we do not know if fireboard continue or not. So me just being a minor compared to so many site builders here, that must be a concern.

So I ask, do I try the newer forums for intergration into joomla 1.5? (there s only 6 atm as fireboard got removed), and at least half of them are not registered as stable for a producton enviroment or just go for a bridge? – answers on a post card please? (even a bridge sucks as cannot code so gotta jump up and down a lot on my forum to try compress it into joomla template).

Regards Moixa</blockquote>

As you mentioned you shortened my name, than you can also reshort it to wooohanetworks…;) I simply chose this name like some months ago, as I had no idea what to use as username, so I already had some people here that shortened it to wooha, whoo, wohoa, worju0r…and so on. It also has no meaning to me other than something like…Oh yeah or whatever..go get it, what the heck, .I do not know…I am not a hip hopper or so…

To your questions, I can say, I now use CB 1.2 stable and you can use Joomlaboard also with CB. I also do not know nothing about Fireboard being discontinued at all, I know it runs in legace mode in 1.5, so either the way of no FB or native FB for me…I also visited RT only twice, first time to when clicking a banner or so, next time to say what the sh… is this or so…I do not like RT, templates that you can get for free at siteground.com look better, from my viewpoint. I am sorry, but I also have no answers you want, I just do not know.:((

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