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I'm planning to create a social community website a bit apart from the
rest of the bunch.
The very purpose of any community website should be to make a virtual
community resembling a real life community.
If you look at real
life,-what seems to be the foundation of any community?
-The answer is
the citizens and their homes.
If you look at websites like Facebook,
they're like a city or a town without homes.
There are groups, forums,
guestbooks, mailboxes and all kinds of functionality, but the member's
profiles are nothing more than a little place where you update your
age, location and upload an image etc.
This is much like a city with infrastructure, a mailservice and public buildings, but no private homes.
My idea of a community website is a place where everything revolves
around the members and their profiles. This can only be made to happen
if the members are given the tools to edit profile CONTENTS, and not
only profile details.
It's like real life where people have a home and are allowed to
decorate it with furniture, pieces of art etc.
Please note that I'm defining the terms profile-contents and profile-details differently.
Profile-details are things like: -Age, gender, location, height, weight, eye-color etc.
Profile-contents are things like: Text, images, links, html-tables, css and everything the members THEMSELVES can stuff into their profiles using html.
Joomla/Community Builder does NOT allow this at the present stage.
JoomlaPlazza however,-seems to be getting close to my own idea of a
community website, although it's not there yet.
What you read here at this very moment is what I define as being profile-contents, edited by the aid of a html-editor. My suggestion is that the same should also be possible in the Personal Info-section of this profile. Furthermore, the Personal Info-section should be the main section, and could also be renamed to "Edit Profile Contents". In my opinion, this section should take the front seat in the appearance of the profile, while profile-details should be happy with sitting in the back seat (smaller sized sections, smaller fonts etc.)
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