jooml + vbulletin integration showcase

[mk484]

I am planning a few new sites. I like Joomla and vB, but until now I was still somewhat undecided on how to pull off a design. I am not convinced on the whole integration thing. After much reading, there are still many unresolved issues, like what happens when it's time to upgrade. Joomla now has a forum that integrates well, called Fireboard, but it is limited. The features and security in vB are far superior. What I decided to do is disable my login module in Joomla and replace it with links all over my home page to my forum. And add my header and footer from Joomla to my vB site.

For the above question on how to do this, it's really quite simple.
1. Find a page in your Joomla site that has the header and footer the way you want it.
2. Right click somewhere on the page and select "view page source"
3. Copy all the information on the page down to your menu.
4. Go to your vB admin panel, styles and templates/style manager and select the style you want to edit.
5. Paste the joomla header info you copied into the header.
6. Add the complete domain everywhere the code calls for "href" or "src"

Do the same to the footer. You may have to play around a bit to get it right. I will post my site when I finish it in a few days.

Hope this helped.