Lots of questions

[slackin-jer]

Hi, I am currently in the process of building a large community based website about the sport of slacklining (www.slackline.com for more info about the sport) and had a lot of questions about vbulletin.

1.) Is it possible to integrate a google-map application that would track all users that are signed up? And possibly have this be a sub-forum in the main community?

2.) I'm looking to have a photo album and a video album. Is it possible to have a section of my website dedicated to photos and videos that can be tracked by vbulletin to see which users have uploaded these photos and videos?

3.) Are there applications to make the users profiles more customizable?

4.) Since vbulletin is a CMS, I can have my entire website be centered around the forums right? So I can have multiple pages on the site with content all submitted by users that are signed up?

These are all the questions I have right now. Thanks so much for the time and consideration you guys have for my inquires, it helps me out a lot.

-Jerry

[TomJames]

1.) Is it possible to integrate a google-map application that would track all users that are signed up? And possibly have this be a sub-forum in the main community?

I believe (but I'm not certain) that there is a mod similar to this on www.vbulletin.org, that's certainly a question best asked there though.


3.) Are there applications to make the users profiles more customizable?

In what way? There are a lot of expansions (such as Xbox Live Avatar boxes) etc that can be added, and those sorts of things are quite easy to make yourself. Or do you mean much more extensively?


4.) Since vbulletin is a CMS, I can have my entire website be centered around the forums right? So I can have multiple pages on the site with content all submitted by users that are signed up?

vBulletin isn't really a CMS, it's a forum, however there is a CMS product being worked on by Jelsoft. There is also a free portal / pseudo-CMS which you can find here:

http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&productid=4

Alternatively you could integrate with Joomla or Drupal (both free) but obviously there are challenges and risks associated with that. It depends how advanced you need your CMS to be really. If you just want static pages the vBadvanced one should work fine.

[slackin-jer]

I'm looking for something that is very similar in style to this website: www.drugs-forum.co.uk (http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk) (sorry if this site is offensive to anyone, I'm just using it as an example). I want to have tabs at the top of the site just like that and I want all the tabs to integrated into the forum.

At the above site they have diferent things like articles, audio, video, blog posts, that are all linked to members of the community page. Is this all done with just vbulletin? Or are they using something else with vb?

[TomJames]

They appear to be using vbAdvanced based on the source code of the page:


<!-- vBadvanced 2-4-1-3-1 -->

If you ask at www.vbulletin.org they might be able to tell you if they're using any other modifications.