Well it's been a long time coming but Art-SX now has a real community of members, so in order to help that community grow we've enlisted the help of Community Builder.

So what exactly does Community Builder do and how can it help you? Simple really, it allows you to not only communicate with other members, but to share information with thousands of visitors Art-SX recieves over the course of the year, you have the ability to create your profile, upload and share images and artwork, write your own blog, make connections with other artists, it will show you a list of the content you have put on Art-SX, log your forum entries and will allow you to send other members email messages.

This is only the tip of the iceberg as we are currently working on intergrating PMS (Private Message Service) and a Classified Ads component to enable you to sell your odds and ends to our online perusers.

Difficult to really produce a concise definition, but its all of the following:

• A Joomla/Mambo component and 3 collaborating core modules
• An environment for producing and maintaining online communities on Joomla/Mambo driven sites
• A system that provides user profile capabilities for Joomla/Mambo sites
• A different registration/login process for Joomla/Mambo sites (supports 4 different workflows)
• An environment that enables Mambo/Joomla site administrators to create user profiles that capture extra information from users (with the creation of new fields) that can be presented and organized in tabs (again defined by the administrator)
• A framework for other Joomla/Mambo components to integrate with user profiles

I could really go on ... but I think you are starting to get the picture. You can see a lot of the Community Builder capabilities by visiting your own profile on this site!

For those of you who do not know what Joomla is, joomla is simply the fantastic software we used to design and develop Art-SX.