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JOSTalk's Editor In Chief waxes poetic about his favorite tools for your website.

I'm offering my top five picks for Joomla components, and while I don't expect everyone to agree with me on these, it has been my experience that these are the most powerful, easy to use projects in the Joomla Kingdom.

Community Builder (Version 1.1 Reviewed 5-19-08) is one of my favorite Joomla components. While the Joomla user management is a powerful tool in and of itself, CB allows a site to gather more information and give users of the site a great deal more interactivity. CB has been working its magic for quite a while, and with the CB Suite 1.2 version to include the latest 1.5.3 version JOS natively, it only makes sense that this component suite will gain strength and give you more power.

Tags: Joomla | Components | Modules | Community Builder | MusicBox | ArtioSEF | Frontpage Slideshow | JCal Pro

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Joomla's flexibility leads to opportunity and long hours.

Joomla is highly customizeable. What makes Joomla stand out is its user friendliness, but there is an element of surprise when working with third party plugins that you can almost always depend on. They either have a tendency to make things real simple or real complicated.

If you're like me, the things that you can do with Joomla provide all kinds of creativity. Sometimes you can depend on it launching you into new site ideas, or hoping that you have a client/purpose to use the solution on. You spend hours plotting, determining and executing code, placement, aesthetics and SEO. It's truly addictive to see what you can do with a site. I've got so many sites that I haven't launched in any form or function, but I keep telling myself that someone will come along and I can "sell" them the idea, at least.

Tags: Joomla | Addiction | Designer

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JOSTalk Reviews: Community Builder v1.1

• Type: Component Suite
• Use: Community Management Solution
• JOS Versions: 1.0.x Native and 1.5.x Legacy

Tags: Community Builder | Joomla | Component | 3/4 Cup

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JOSTalk Reviews: VirtueMart v1.0.16

• Type: Component Suite
• Cost: Open Source-Free Download
• Use: E-Commerce and Subscriptions Development
• JOS Versions: 1.0.x Native and 1.5.x Native
  

  Tags: Virtuemart | Joomla | Component

  
  
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