Lets combine funds for a Reviews CMS with business/product directory

[bigtree]

Originally Posted by ForumsMods

Advanced Content 4.0 Beta 1 is out

• Demo Site upgraded
• Filter Module enabled
• Clickable Fields enabled
• New design for ratings

New Compare (Drag & Drop) module with AJAX and jQuery is coming.

Is this ready to download and work on a production site? Is it the advanced CMS that has the review mod?
I wish you all would get the basic mod available and worry about bells and whistles later/as you progress. I would love to have a review section on my site:
http://recording.org

[bigtree]

Hey everyone, how is it going? When can we expect something?

[ForumsMods]

Advanced Content System 4.0 Beta 2 is now available for download.

Changes since ACS Beta 1:

• Different preview images for different types
• Table Of Contents: split first post
• Custom ids for fields
• Lightbox for Preview Images
• Datepicker for Dates
• Image URL for Preview
• New option: Required Preview Image
• New option: Allow images from website
• New option: Import image url
• Usergroups for Custom Fields
• Regular Expression for Custom Fields
• New Design for Top Module
• New Design for Ratings
• New Design for Custom Fields

Demo Site was updated with this new version and Hotels Type.


What is coming?

• Social Networking Sharing
• Top Contributor and Top Helpful Reviews
• Custom Fields for replies
• Compare Module
• Google Maps module for Forumdisplay

[Alfa1]

I have added 2 more features to the list:

• Images with text wrap and image caption

I think for reviews, this is essential, because it makes the difference between a forum post and a reviews layout. Case in point: http://vb4.forumsmods.com/showthread...full=1#post155

• Image carousel or another solution to allow a large number of images to be displayed.

[tpearl5]

Two of my sites have similar 'product' sections, but they could use improvement.

This one is vbAdvanced with a custom member 'product' addon, so users can add products to their profiles: http://nikonites.com/products/index.php
I also have a custom rss importer for vbAdvanced.

This one is entirely custom: http://cellphoneforums.net/phone-database
It has a really nice feature to add links to phone profiles from threads and vice versa via the "Discussions" tab: http://cellphoneforums.net/phone-dat...id_Bionic.html

[z3r0]

If any of you guys still have an interest in GARS, I posted my updated working (mostly) vb4 version in GARS VB4 forum yesterday.

[slinky]

Very well done. I have integrated my sites with vBulletin in a way to use the best of breed through other tricks (I like my reviews system a great deal) but it actually looks good enough to potentially try out on some of my new sites. Your'e doing an amazing job shoe horning that which should look as bad as the VB CMS to look and feel a whole lot better doing it your way. Superb.

[bigtree]

I have no interest at this stage of the game to replace the CMS. Which mod here is focusing on that? Which ones are just add-ons?

[Brandon Sheley]

Nice ideas in this thread, I tried to "like" it but I got an alert saying "you can not like this post"...

[lycheepassion]

I'd be in my reviewpost thing sucks