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Written by gtaylor , on 25-02-2008 18:54 1. Maybe my take on Virtuemart is a little harsh, but I just found that trying to customize the look and feel is a pain, partly due to the apparent widespread use of inline CSS. I notice it also re-defines styles in the joomla admin (for instance, the joomla menu changes styles once you are in the Virtuemart component, etc. which I just find annoying, and it makes the nav invisible when using a templateplazzza admin template).  I just wish all extensions (not just Virtuemart) could just work with Joomla templates “out of the box” instead of doing their own thing.*  As far as Shape5 goes, that’s just the first place I found that made professional Virtuemart templates. I’m actually more infatuated with Rockettheme currently, but I’m not seeing anything on their site regarding templates for Virtuemart.    2. I’m happy with Joomla as a blog as well. However, I’d like the pinging to be an automatic process, and I don’t think the component you’re using or the one I’m using (DS-Syndicate?) do that. I find that once you move away from the simplest of tasks, the non-technical joomla admin (i.e., the client) cant get lost quickly. Posting by email and comment management are two other things I would like to see “out of the box”.*    3. I believe the solutions you mention either don’t do what I need or they require hacking the core Joomla code, which I want to avoid to make installing patches less of a hassle (please set me straight here if I’m off base). To re-iterate what I’m asking for here - I want to be able to create my own user group (say “client a”) and then assign menu items, content items, etc. to only that group). These groups could just be sublevels of “registered” in order to accomplish what I need. And it’s not even so much that it can’t be done, because I know it can with a hack or extension that does a hack), but that it’s not built-in already.*    4. My main problem with the current hierarchy stems from the functionality you can get with using the Extended Menu module (http://de.siteof.de/extended-menu.html) in 1.0x that allows me to auto expand sections and categories in a menu. So if I’m using a Suckerfish-type menu system and a client adds a new content item or category under a section used a top level nav item, it automatically appears on the menu. This goes back to keeping it simple for the client. All they have to do is create a content item, assign it to the correct section/category, and it automatically shows up in the menu without having to tackle the additional step of editing the menu.  However, I’m limited here with the Joomla hierarchy (section->category->content item). What if I just want section->content item, or section->category->sub-category->content item? For the section->content item example, I could just make a category my “content”, but that’s just one more thing to confuse a client with.    *My main point here is that these are the things that I think could make Joomla the “Holy Grail“ of the open source CMS world if you could combine a fully integrated, high-end shopping cart, full-featured blogging tool, and more flexibility in terms of user management and content “out of the box”. And it’s all very doable.