I just enabled a new theme for the blog that incorporates the LDV look and feel. The LDV look and feel is the brown color scheme with top village images, cascading menus, and boxes for advertisements (where they do appear).
Our site is really made up of numerous components, all tied together by the surrounding LDV environment. Here are just a few of the components we use and how they work for us:
- eCommerce Templates - our shopping cart
- Lore Knowledgebase - Seminary, Primary, and Sampler knowledgebases
- vBulletin3 - our discussion forums and the basis for our image gallery
- Photopost - our image gallery, integrated with vBulletin
- aMember - our membership management system, integrated with vBulletin, Photopost, and WordPress for single site login access.
- WordPress - this blog. All registered members can leave comments on these blog entries, you can login with the same username password that you use for any other site area (see aMember above).
- Omnistar Etools - our support system.
- Mailman - our email list software
- Arelis - links management system
The only rub is that I (Tim) must update all of these areas with new header/footer code when we change menus. However, finding a total solution with all of these different functions (in our price range) is something we have not been able to find.
We hope you enjoy our efforts to present a pleasing and useful interface.
Tim Holder, Webmaster
webmaster@latter-dayvillage.com
