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Open Question: General advice and Best Practices for a Cobalt Newcomer

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Bucklash
Total posts: 3
30 Jan 2014 01:16

Hi

INTRO:

I am an intermediate with Joomla (two years at it now), but I am still a bit of a novice with jQuery and PHP.

I am looking to start a site using COBALT, which I will be downloading soon to have a play around.

The next site will be for a music studio, I aim to expand its horizons beyond rehearsals and occasional recordings.

I aim to provide:

  • forum,

  • membership,

  • band pages,

  • downloadable files,

  • a store,

  • a directory, and

  • subscriptions.

QUESTION:

Are there any links, tips, suggestions or recommendations you can offer to get me on the right track:

  • Particular extensions to use.

  • Particular extensions to avoid.

  • Template companies you recommend etc.

  • Best practices with Cobalt

  • Advice on using third party providers....

CONCLUSION:

I really want to start this next project on the right track, and I also want to get down and dirty with a CCK, I guess errors and conflicts are inevitable but I want to do my best to avoid them

I will really appreciate any feedback

Thanks

Jon

Last Modified: 02 Mar 2014

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Sergey
Total posts: 13,748
31 Jan 2014 00:59

  • forum - possible. Just install forum pack. It is one click setup.

  • membership - possible. You will have to purchase Emerald joomla membership extension

  • band pages - possible. As cobalt articles. This article may show all relates articles like albums, artistic, ... Use Relate (parent/child) fields for that.

  • downloadable files - possible. There are 2 fields. One is upload that allow upload and sell through subscription. Another paytodownload that allows upload and sell individually and through subscription.

  • a store. Depends. I need more infor. What are you going to sell and how.

  • a directory - easy!

  • subscriptions. If you mentioned it separately of membership probably you mean subscriptions to newsletters. You can do that. You can automatically subscribe user to newsletter to Acymailing extension on successful membership purchase.

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Bucklash
Total posts: 3
31 Jan 2014 18:07

Thanks Sergey,

All seems pretty straight foward

Store: Not quite sure at the minute, never done one before so not sure of possibilities and costs but ideally it will be: download albums, buy tickets to events and purchacse stock items like guitar strings, plectrums , guitar leads etc (which will be picked up rather than delivered) so will need to also have a stock control system

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Sergey
Total posts: 13,748
02 Feb 2014 22:52

Cobalt do not have field for stock items yest.

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