Hey everyone,
I know I tell all of my clients to make at least one blog entry per week and the more the better. It is a shame I do not have time to follow my own advice. I give you my word that from this day forward I will try to post more often.
Because my activity here has been so dismal I am have decided to add some new categories and topics. I would like to discuss some of the work I am doing and I would like to introduce some of my clients. Please feel free to comment on anything being posted here. Don’t be shy.
My newest client and project is Cannashops.com. I was not hired as a consultant here so I do not have full control over what goes on. Please do feel free to make suggestions though. I have just started but in the future the portal page will be modified, seo will be done, I will make the site more user friendly and then it will be time for promotion! I believe the site has potential.
I have some other projects I have been working on as well. I am currently working on 2 VBulletin, Joomla Bridges. I tried to build a bridge first, then I tried JFusion and finally I have gone with BBpixel. I will be posting links when I get further long. The sites are being built for iowawhitetails and whichwouldwin… One of these projects is going to contain a simple poll on the Joomla page, the other site is a bit more complex. I will by using the VBulletin style and css through out the whole site. The Joomla page will be wrapped if you will.
This integration has been more challenging than usual because of the new generation VBulletin script that just came out, 3.7. There are just not many decent bridges out there or at least there were not when I started these projects.
Part of the whitetail project was for me to pick a suitable CMS that could function the way the owner wants and the need for future modules was also present. Before settling with Joomla I did some research and testing with some other CMs. I tried Drupal, VBDrupal, VBadvanced and Joomla. I believe Joomla is the most solid, feature packed cms of the bunch but it is also very complex unless you are a webdeveloper. I guess this could be taken as job security for me.
Not that I am halfway done with the projects though I am wondering why I did not think of using Wordpress. Most people probably see Wordpress as a basic blog script but I believe it can be worked into just about anything. I am sure there are some decent Wordpress/VBulletin Bridges out there as well. Live and learn I guess.
I do have another major project coming up in August and it is actually one of my own sites, www.talkandmore.net – I am going to completely rebuild the site from the ground up and I am going to tie it is with a cms as a landing page. Because of all of the added features and sub domains I really do think it is time for a landing page in order to kind of anchor all of those pages. I am really thinking about using wordpress for this now! If anyone has experience in integrating wordpress with Vbulletin please post here. I will be forever grateful.
My current plan for the site is to share the same style through out the forum and cms. I am not positive on this yet though. I am open for suggestions though.
That is it for this entry. If you have any comments or advice on anything I talked about please do not be a stranger. I am always looking for skilled developers and coders to help with projects etc.
Thanks,
WebDevoMan
