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Out of the thousands of available Joomla!® extensions we tend to use a small number of popular extensions for the commonly required features of a web site.

 

ExtensionWhat Does It Do?Why We Use It?
Community BuilderUser management and social network platform
  • Very extensible and configurable,
  • Integrates with many other extensions,
  • Very popular and active development,
  • Hundreds of available extensions to the extension.
Kunena ForumDiscussion forums
  • Very popular and active development,
  • Integrates with CB,
  • Flexible and robust.
SH404SEFUser friendly URL rewriting
  • Security features,
  • Flexible meta tag and meta description editing.
JOOMGalleryPicture gallery
  • Integrates with CB,
  • Flexible configuration and user management.
JCommentsReader commenting and feedback
HWDVideoShareVideo gallery with user upload
SOBI2Content constructorVery useful for online business directories and extensible beyond merely online business cards.
CssJsCompressCombines and compresses CSS and JS files to reduce download overhead.Can speed up large sites significantly.
SmartResizerResizes article images to a consistent size in blog layout and single article layout.Cosmetic and can reduce download overhead in some circumstances.

 

We also have used:

Alphacontent for content layout,

the GavickPro series of extensions for tabbed and dynamic layout although using more and more often the ROK series of content display modules and plugins.

And we are continually evaluating and re-evaluating extensions for future use and for new sites. Extensions we are evaluating and testing are:

  • K2 for Drupal CCK like content presentation and management,
  • and the rockettheme ROK series of modules for presentation in addition to the rockettheme templates,
  • Agora Olympus forum as an alternative to Kunena. We will publish our results of our comparison between Kunena and Olympus very soon.

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