Best of the Country website/forum
 

Website URL: http://www.bestofthecountry.com

The Best of the Country is a website devoted to everything country. It is meant to be an informational this site with information about country life, small farms, farming, antique tractors and equipment, and virtually anything related to country life and small farming. There will also be human interest stories about people.

The forum is accessible under "Forum" in the header area. The CMS is Joomla, the Joomla template is Joomlashack's Vintage Green, with the vBulletin forum & a Wordpress blog, both wrapped in the template. The colors of the forum were changed to match the template color scheme.

I'd be interested in knowing what what you think. :)

I think that you did a smashing job integrating the vbulletin forum and your wordpress blog into the joomla template. I saw that vintage template at joomlashack the other day and I think it was an excellent choice for the theme of your website.

I know how time consuming it can be to get everything working together, so I applaud you for a job well done!

Thanks, fusiongoddess, with Joomla and the JoomlaShack template (which I highly recommend for those with a site that it "fits") it was really easy to wrap both vBulletin and WordPress into the template design. You just remove the whole header in your vBulletin template and wrap it. It took about 10 minutes to do. I'm not fully satisfied with the WordPress thing yet, I need to edit that purposely simple template's CSS and modify the colors to match the site.

I'm also still working on the integration of Joomla, vBulletin and WordPress, but that will take a while. They are all sort of individual products, without connection, all wrapped in the one design. ;)

Your "random images" load slowly. They are bigger than they need to be.

Site is still loading while I write this message :eek:

joomla rules ;)

Technically it is well put together. Excellent. 10/10

Graphically for me it looks very dull. I'm no fan of jamoola or blog looking sites. It took me 10 seconds to think "ohhh, this place looks sooo boring". :erm:

Sorry I'm not being harsh, just my opinion.

I'd use the excelelnt backbone for the website you've created and give it a little life and snazzziness {is that a word?!}.

Good work and luck!

Oh and fix ur favicon, its the jamoola defaut!

Dooch

Great site.
I'm trying to achieve something similar.
Can you be more specific in describing how you 'wrapped' vbulletin in the joomla template? I want to do the same thing but cant figure it out.

Cheers,
Sam

Oh, I see.
I'm still getting used to Joomla.
I need to add a new wrapper menu item to the main menu, right?
Cheers,
Sam