From what I have seen of vBulletin I have to say that I am impressed! I already have a Photography Community site that I have put together using Joomla and Community Builder. It has really started to grow over the past few months and if I change platforms, now is the time to do it! I have hit the wall where I will have to start putting money into the site in order to take it to the next level using Joomla Mods, but I would like to see if there is a better solution.
Here is what I currently have at the site that I would like to make sure I can continue...
- Forums
- Newsletter Subscrptions
- Gallery*
- Hot or Not mod used for photo contests
- News section (with ability to imbed youtube vids)
- polls
- User Profiles (ability to customize fields...)
Here are the additional features I am seeking
- User Blogs
- User Groups (Created by Users and Admin)
- Calendar for users and User Groups
- are there mods for integrating Amazon Store and Cafepress?
*Gallery - This is the most important section of the site. I would like to maintain the community gallery where visitors can browse the pictures submitted by users with links to the user profiles. Ability to comment/rate photos (if users could opt in or out of this, that would be great!) Any information or link to the features to the gallery mod for vBulletin would be great!
Finally if there are additional costs to any features or plugins, I'd like to know.
If there are tools for syncing users from on platform to another, that would be a MAJOR plus!
Thanks!
Here is what I currently have at the site that I would like to make sure I can continue...
- Forums
- Newsletter Subscrptions
- Gallery*
- Hot or Not mod used for photo contests
- News section (with ability to imbed youtube vids)
- polls
- User Profiles (ability to customize fields...)
Here are the additional features I am seeking
- User Blogs
- User Groups (Created by Users and Admin)
- Calendar for users and User Groups
- are there mods for integrating Amazon Store and Cafepress?
*Gallery - This is the most important section of the site. I would like to maintain the community gallery where visitors can browse the pictures submitted by users with links to the user profiles. Ability to comment/rate photos (if users could opt in or out of this, that would be great!) Any information or link to the features to the gallery mod for vBulletin would be great!
Finally if there are additional costs to any features or plugins, I'd like to know.
If there are tools for syncing users from on platform to another, that would be a MAJOR plus!
Thanks!
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