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Ventrino Traffic Exchange Community

Small changes are taking place at Ventrino.  Our website, which was once built using an HTML editor, now uses Joomla.  Yesterday I updated the Wordpress blog to use the same template as the main Joomla website thus providing some consistency in the look and feel of the website.

I also added the Community link which allows the Ventrino community to share information, photos, videos, create groups and friend one another in a similar fashion to Facebook.  Twitter can be integrated and in time Google Plus too.

The website is built with open source and free to use code as well as commercial Joomla components.  These include:

  • Joomla 1.7 – The Content Management System
  • Wordpress – The Blog
  • Artisteer – The template creation tool (not just Wordpress and Joomla)
  • JomSocial – provides most of the community code
  • RSJoomla! – Form creation tool, Firewall, SEO
Mixed in with JomSocial and Joomla are several chunks of code developed by myself and Adam to add new features.  For example Adam has created a module that enables the Community to distribute video uploads to the major streaming sites such as Youtube and Daily motion.

Elevated Traffic – The Promo Video

Beth, Owner of Elevated Traffic receives the last free promo video. It has been great fun doing these and I want to thank everyone for their kind comments, and those not so kind as they too have been a great help!

[flashvideo file=/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/elevated-HQ.mp4 /]

You can also save the files to your disk by right-click save-as: elevated-HQ

See How to add a video to your site for instructions on how this can be added to your website.